Day: September 6, 2007

For the discerning individual

If you are a fan of Tom Waits, or of the fine television program The Wire, you will thank me for this. First, go to the Kronos Quartet page. Over at the left, click on the “Kronos Quartet plays Sigur Ros” graphic. This will popup a window with a Quicktime player in it. It will be playing Flugufrelsarinn by default.… Read more →

Miscellany: Your lab fees at work.

For a long time now I’ve been asking to be cremated and buried or scattered, rather than being embalmed and buried whole. This is primarily because I find the whole embalming thing a bit icky and unnatural, and secondarily because as an engineer I realize that the conventional burial model doesn’t scale with geometrically expanding population. However, I think I’ve… Read more →

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