Indistinguishable from Jesse

My extended family gave me some awesome graduation presents: a San Diego hiking guide, a small MP3 player to help me keep my sanity while traveling, and over $1700 in checks and gift certificates.

I'm going to move to Austin this week and start my summer job at IBM next week. To do:

• Find a hotel near my Austin apartment (Google rocks!).
• Find a way to back up my 40GB hard drive or at least the important stuff (5GB of hard-to-find music + 1GB of other stuff) before I ship my computer to Austin. I have an old computer with 6GB free but I'm not sure how I can transfer the data.
• Figure out how to ship my computer to Austin.
• Find out if it makes sense to rent a monitor instead of shipping mine there and back.

ends in 24 hours.

• Wedding dress worn twice: by the seller's ex-wife at the wedding, and by the seller to take the photos.
• An Erdös number of 5 (the high bidder wasn't serious)
• The air guitar used by Ben Jovi

I was working on my last Abstract Algebra homework problem: "In how many ways can you color the faces of an octahedron with n colors?" Solving the problem required figuring out all the ways you can rotate an octahedron onto itself, which I was having trouble doing in my head. I asked Selene for an octahedron, not expecting her to have one.

JesseRud: do you have an octahedron i can borrow?
AshLykos: you could go to random.org and look at the first 3 bits of a binary result
JesseRud: what does that have to do with anything?
JesseRud: oh

She had a d8 and let me borrow it after I explained why I needed a physical octahedron. I never expected having friends who role-play to come in handy.