http://thislooksfamiliar.com Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:01:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en from this article by wired.com's danger room: After just a few hours a Pyrament runway is ready for the heaviest aircraft, reaching a strength that conventional concrete can only match after several days. Pyrament is one type of a new technology called geopolymers. they harden faster than traditional concretes and to higher ... http://thislooksfamiliar.com/super-concrete/ i don't understand why the government shouldn't own the banks, at least temporarily.  it seems like the way they are being run now, the government (and my money) take the risk when things are bad, but the banks take the profits when things are good.  that doesn't make any sense.  ... http://thislooksfamiliar.com/privitizing-banks/ ...which would be great excep i'm already on spring break.  it figures that the only snow day of the year comes when we're all ready on spring break. http://thislooksfamiliar.com/snow-day/ after each semester, my university asks students to participate in an anonymous review of the teacher and the course.  i had particular difficulty with a certain teacher last semster.  the following is my review: The strongest features of this course were: the strongest feature of this course was the inexcusably terrible and ... http://thislooksfamiliar.com/teacher-evaluations/ last friday, january 9th, a fire truck drove into a building in boston.  this happened about two streets over from where i live.  this was all over the local and national news.  i went over with my roommate, matt, as soon as we heard about it, which was about 20 ... http://thislooksfamiliar.com/fire-truck-in-a-building/ and so the snow came, furious and insistent covering our neighborhood in a white velvet robe erasing the scars of oil stains and potholes from the streets and calming the built up energy of the city http://thislooksfamiliar.com/and-so-the-snow-came/ i recently purchased a 24" iMac.  i love it and am very happy with it.  however, this is my first Mac and the transition has hit a few bumps.  it was bothering me that i couldn't easily see the desktop without minimizing all of the open windows.  i could "see" ... http://thislooksfamiliar.com/show-desktop-on-a-mac/ the leaves fell down, on me they rained, through autumn dusk on this crisp day. like red twirling dive bombers falling to earth, prepared to be trampled and turned into dirt. from beauty the colors they all go to brown, from heights and bright majesty they die on the ground. for a brief moment in time ... http://thislooksfamiliar.com/on-autumns-death/ this site has a few early obama jokes.  my favorite: “Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife, Lynne Cheney, said that Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are related. She said they are actually eighth cousins. … Lynne Cheney says that Obama and Dick Cheney’s connection was the result of one of Obama’s ancestors ... http://thislooksfamiliar.com/early-obama-jokes/ google tracked the top searches on election day and analyzed them in blog post.  from the post: As polls closed and the presidential race was called after 11 pm EST for [president obama], people searched for outcomes on state races of interest, such as [al franken senate race], [massachusetts question 2], ... http://thislooksfamiliar.com/top-searches-on-election-day/