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As an undergrad, the OSL pretty much changed my life. It lead to my internships with Mozilla and Google, along with set me on a career path that seems pretty solid. The OSL has given many students a chance to learn and work with open source. Furthermore, it has supported most of the major open source projects out there (Mozilla, the Kernel, Gentoo, Debian, Freenode, Drupal, to name a few).

So yeah, OSL FTW. If you are a manager/oss-lover type, and interested in joining the fun, you should check this out.

update: goto jobs.oregonstate.edu and search for #0000693.

Over the past couple months I’ve gotten into triathlons. So far I’ve raced in 3 sprints (500yd swim, 20k bike, 5k run), and one olympic distance (1.5k, 40k, 10k). My most recent race, Wildflower, completely changed my perspective on the sport.

There were two notable differences that Wildflower had over the other triathlons, scale and distance. All of my previous races had somewhere between 100 and 300 racers. That means each age/sex division has 15-20 competitors. At Wildflower, however, there were 3500 racers in my distance (7500+ overall!!). On top of that, my age division (mens collegiate) had ~150 athletes. To make it even more intense, collegiate men were the first wave to go into the water! When I stepped out of the water somewhere around the 50th racer, there were another 3400 people behind me. This is A LOT different then what I had experienced previously.

About to go for a swim…

a couple bicycles…

Unfortunately, as a strong swimmer, but weak cyclist and runner, this means I got passed by about 2000 people.

getting passed

Oh well, I may not be fast, but I am in darn good shape! :D