Peter is up to this

Hello!

I will hopefully write up some interesting things that have happened to me in the last 8 months or so. Currently I am taking a year off to do research, on cochlear biophysics. Brandi is doing one too.

I am sleepy because I stayed up until 2 last night watching the Truman show. I liked that movie when it came out and I still like it.

This came out of left field buried in a times article.

"Since a federal report four years ago found that textbook prices nearly tripled from 1986 to 2004 — rising an average of 6 percent a year, twice the inflation rate — Congress and state legislators have been working to contain textbook costs."

http://bit.ly/2XDSKo

WHAT? Where is this report? I need to read it.

Hey guys

Listen, I uhh monetized the blog. I'm sure we'll never get any money but if we do, it's all going to www.heifer.org, my favorite charity.

The idea behind the charity is that you buy poor developing world communities livestock, which they then get trained to raise, and then use that livestock for their renewable resources (ie milk, fertilizer, wool, feathers) and then sell whatever excess they have locally to other underdeveloped communities. So rather than a handout which is basically palliative care, this charity tries to give poor people the ability to grow their own communities naturally.

Actually John, Robyn told me about way back in college (man those were the days) and I did a little research, it apparently gives around 70% of its donations to the cause, and only 30% go to overhead, which is a pretty good ratio.

So to try to drive up a little traffic to this site, I'll resume my insane rants about the news in september, tell your parents to read the blog and click the links.

How is everyone doing these days?