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Geeks with Guns is a group of CMU students that sets up events a couple times a year where you can go and fire some fun high-powered weaponry. My friend Liz and I went to the one this weekend and it was a blast…
I took over 250 photos, of which I’ve posted about 6o of the best. If you’re one of the guys from the shoot and don’t see a picture you were looking for (or if you want a full sized version of any of the pictures I’ve posted), send me an email.
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There’s something uniqe to Pittsburgh that I don’t think I’ve ever seen this big outside the Pittsburgh area…
Food from trucks:
Sure, in Silicon Valley they have the taco truck. And at every beach you’ll find the elephant-ear truck or the burger van. But we’re talking like rolling food court here. Every day the trucks park near the Pitt and CMU campuses and set up shop. They all serve great ethnic foods: Indian, Thai, Korean, Chineese, Greek. None of them would probably ever pass a health department inspection, but its a great place to get cheap, good food.
However, there is the process of elimination as you figure out which ones dish out food poisoning and which don’t…
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Earlier this week I snapped this shot of the Cathedral of Knowledge (Pitt’s big landmark, also known as the “Tower of Ignorance” ).
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You might have heard that Bill Gates just donated 20 million dollars to the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to build what will now be called the “Gates Center for Computer Science.”
We’ll all be gone long before the building is completed, but that sure as hell didn’t stop us from snagging our share of the free food Microsoft provided this afternoon. I’ve come to realize grad school is all about snagging as much free food as possible. $15,000/term in tuition and all it takes is some free cheese and crackers to make us happy.
Update: I’ve posted some pictures of the spread that they set up for the Microsoft celebration. It was quite impressive. In the second picture you can find me if you look hard enough:
(photos shamelessly lifted from the SCS website)
Tags: carnegie-mellon, pittsburgh, technology
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