I spent some time last week at a professional conference. For the most part it was a relatively valuable use of my time, but there were significant portions of time where I was stuck sitting in a room with lots of people while a particularly boring speaker was presenting. I was without a computer–the conference [...]
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On the off chance that someone comments with the plaintext before I get around to telling the story, I will send them a $20 Amazon gift certificate or something like that.
I passed a lovely bit of time today reading The American Hobo by Colin Beesley, a British academic paper about a quintessentially American phenomenon1. I’ve always found the romantic aspects of the hobo story fascinating (something that Utah Phillips has only encouraged), although I suspect I’m too soft to have lived that life even had [...]
Jonathan Carroll’s never-emptying cornucopia of awesome brings us this quote today:
I live near the abyss. I hope to stay.
–Theodore Roethke
Yes, I quite like that. A little bit Nietzsche, a little bit Billy Joel. It, at least to me, says something about an artistic way to live.
Actually, and this is probably sharing too much, this brings [...]
…NEVER say that I got left behind.
I have not been here, because I have been driving ridiculous distances around North America to visit friends and to see the Oysterband live (third time!)
I think I had an idiot grin on my face for about six hours after the show.
I will be discussing this at length at [...]
Sunday: 3 hours of packing. 1 hour of back-and-forth. 11 hours of driving (5 hours of music, 6 hours of radio plays.) 3 hours of reading.
Monday: 9 hours actually in the office. 7.5 hours of meetings.1 I predict another two or three hours of reading Santayana now.
Predictions for tomorrow: 8.5 hours of meetings already scheduled.
I [...]
When asked about my home town, I usually reply with one of two quips. Either “it’s a great place to be from” or “it may be smallish, but it has a high character ratio”. That second line which inevitably leads into discussions of the various people that are “real characters” that everyone in the conversation [...]
And now, for a nice long weekend diversion, a selection of songs with a common characteristic: people seem to be surprised that I really like them.
First up we have Dino. This might surprise people who know me a bit, since I’m really not a lounge type of cat. It might surprise people who know me [...]
No normal blogging today, since I was mostly busy with family stuff. For cynical Good Friday stuff, hit the search bar and look for “Good Friday” or “Eostre”, and you can read last year’s stuff.
The other thing keeping me busy was an upgrade to “the lab”, also known as “my office”, or “the library” depending [...]
So we’ve pretty much established that I’m 35, but I’ve got to tell you, I’m basically still a child.
When I see something like the page of “revenge” items at Spymall, I just laugh like an evil ten-year old, and spend time coming up with ill-advised scenarios in which I could use that stuff. (And I [...]
I see Collen Doran has made a couple of posts recently about some pieces of her art that I now own.
Not only do I get to brag about owning the pieces, I think this formally connects me to the Swordspoint universe in some nebulous way.
I have now been 35 for 9 minutes.
So far, it feels the same as 34.
Not a ton of time for blogging tonight, due to the little birthday present1 I bought for myself: a Wii with some accessories and a couple of games.
This is the first console I’ve ever owned. From childhood, when I visited friends to play Atari or Intellivision (I did eventually get a Vic 20, which was [...]
Due to important fund-raising activities and all-you-can-drink craft beer, there will be no blogging today.
(Actually, I’m sick and driving, so there won’t be that much drinking, but I will still put in an appearance, raise the flag, and put some money towards a good cause.)
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