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Now that I am a graduate student again, one of the things that I never get tired of hearing about are Scholarship and Fellowship Databases
I attend IMACS conferences on Applied Computer Algebra whenever I can, and I highly recommend the SymbolicNet to anyone interested in Computer Algebra Systems.
Just about my favorite thing to do lately, it seems, is running. Over
the summer I joined a marathon training group called Austin
Fit . We started out running short (2-3 mile) runs, and worked our
way up to quite long distances (a marathon is 26.2 miles). At the
culmination of the program, on February 15, many of us ran the Austin
Motorola Marathon. It was a terrific experience (once I was able to
walk down stairs facing forward again). Austin Fit is a great group; I
recommend it to everyone. I made a lot of friends (in the photo are Marshall,
Jara, Cindy and myself), and went from being just a slow runner to being
a slow marathon runner in about 6 months.
I can't recommend skydiving enough. Head out (no pun intended) to Skydive San Marcos and try it for yourself. The tandem instructors there, David and Steve, are real pros. Make sure and go for the extra altitude, and spring for the videotape if it's your first time.
(Note: g=9.8m/s^2).
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Of course, I also love to play games. I play a lot of different games,
from chess to role-playing games.
Here is my friend Tim and I teaching
chess in Jennifer's 4th grade class at Bridgepoint Elementary while Andrew,
Ian, Kirstin, Aly, Meredith, and Blake look on.
You can extract a public key for me or anyone else from the MIT PGP Public Key Server.
My PGP userid is: Robert Jones <rjones@physics.utexas.edu> .
You can also Get My Public Key Directly from Me.
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