Monthly Archives: October 2005

Cream at MSG

Posted on October 31, 2005 by mim

On Wednesday my dad took me to see Cream play the last of their three reunion shows at Madison Square Gardens. It was an awesome, if slightly unlikely experience. Why, 37 years after breaking up, are they playing reunion shows? … Continue reading →

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Adventures in international travel

Posted on October 21, 2005 by mim

So I was in london for a conference (the fifth international symposium on music information retrieval (!)) and it was time to fly home. I was spending the afternoon visiting my cousins who said they’d give me a ride to … Continue reading →

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Obligatory introduction

Posted on October 19, 2005 by mim

Yay, I finally have a blog. I’m famous, the world will hear what I say, beat a path to my door, etc, etc, gush, gush. I plan to write about books I’m reading (like Keith), maybe interesting news stories I … Continue reading →

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Romance Novels

Posted on October 19, 2005 by mim

Reading through the NYTimes book review, I noticed an add from the “Romance Writers of America” with some interesting statistics: romance fiction totaled $1.2 billion in sales for 2004 54.9% of all paperback sales in 2004 was romance — more … Continue reading →

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Books I’ve read recently

Posted on October 19, 2005 by mim

To start off this books category, since you’re so concerned, I’ll tell you that the last few books I’ve read have been Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (most recently), John Krakour’s Into Thin Air, Kurt Vonnegut’s … Continue reading →

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About me

Posted on October 19, 2005 by mim

I’m currently a second year graduate student in the electrical engineering department at columbia university working for Professor Dan Ellis in LabROSA. I graduated in 2004 from MIT, with a degree in computer science. I lived at tEp. For fun, … Continue reading →

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Travels over IAP 2004

Posted on October 19, 2005 by mim

For IAP (that’s MITese for January) 2004 I travelled like a madman, 19257 miles to be precise. Above is a map of the trips. I went from Boston to Amsterdam to LA to Santa Cruz to Philadelphia to Belize City … Continue reading →

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What do people do?

Posted on October 19, 2005 by mim

As a graduate student, taking classes on interesting but nevertheless esoteric topics, conversation often turns to “What do real people actually do for a living?” Fortunately, the US Department of Labor, specifically the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is on the … Continue reading →

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