The Icy Fortress of Solitude

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred

2008-08-18T21:40:00.000-07:00

From the Very Good Taste blog comes a list every gourmand should appreciate.

Instructions
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
~~25. Brawn, or head cheese~~ (maybe when they cure prion diseases)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
~~75. Roadkill~~
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

80 out of 100 I've eaten.
2 out of 100 things I won't eat.
18 more to go!

edited 10/11/09

First Stars III

2007-07-14T18:29:00.000-07:00

I am presenting a poster at First Stars III in Sante Fe, New Mexico in July.

The 2007 Stanford Student Film Festival

2007-05-17T01:27:00.000-07:00

Be sure to check out the festival website, which I designed.

GSC Representative in 2007

2007-04-02T10:04:00.000-07:00

The 2007 ASSU elections have begun, and I am running for a position as a representative for the Stanford Graduate Student Council. I would like to encourage all Stanford students to review the information available at elections.stanford.edu and to vote in the upcoming elections.

As a GSC Representative in the coming year, I will focus on creating new academic mentorship programs, diversifying existing graduate life programming, and increasing constituency outreach. I firmly believe in a dynamic and interactive relationship between the student body and it's representatives. Therefore, I will make it my primary objective to find and implement simple and prompt mechanisms to gather an accurate portrait of our current concerns as graduate students, and address them to the GSC, ASSU, administration, faculty, and the Stanford community at large.

As the GSC Programming Coordinator, I have been involved in organizing many of the large graduate events this year, such as the Graduate Formal and the Fall Welcome Party, which I hope you have all enjoyed. My involvement has made me well acquainted with the procedures of the GSC and ASSU. As an events organizer for the GSPB and Community Associate for EV, I have had the joy and privilege of meeting and speaking with students from all different disciplines. I believe my experiences have given me a unique opportunity to understand the needs of students across the departmental divide.

I am therefore I think

2006-12-22T13:04:00.001-08:00

I am a graduate student at Stanford University pursing a PhD in Applied Physics.

I work at the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), where I study Computational Astrophysics. My advisor is Tom Abel. I run simulation of magnetic fields in astrophysical processes using the ENZO code, specifically on magnetogenesis during galaxy formation as well as magnetorotational instabilities in accretion disks and supernovae.

I am active in the Stanford Graduate Student Council (GSC). I was the Natural Science Representative from Spring 2007 to 2009 and have been GSC Programming Coordinator, GSC Communication Officer, and the Chair of the GSC Legislative Action Committee in that time. I am also a member of the Graduate Student Programming Board (GSPB), and a member of the Stanford Film Society (SFS). I also am a Community Associate ('06-present) for Escondido Village.

I am a member of the Board for the Nation Association for Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) as the Chair of the Employment Concerns Committee.

I enjoy playing the flute and singing, learning to play the piano and banjo, acrylic painting, watching silly musicals, cooking and eating tasty food, lobbying Congress, and dancing (even I much resemble a jellyfish having a stroke doing so).

I went to MIT as an undergrad, where I was couse 8 and 18C. I lived at EAsT camPUS, on Floor Pi (Third West). My physics undergraduate thesis was on "Spatial Search by Quantum Walk with a Randomized Local Start State."

I spend much of my day in front of a computer.

Updated 03-30-09