Coming out of hibernation very briefly to record my votes for XPN's 885 greatest musical artists of all timeREM ( Read more... )

I really really really need to submit this paper that I'm working on soon, so without further ado here are my comments on the Emmy nominations:

• Everyone was saying that this year the nominations would be better because of some change in the rules that even I wasn't procrastinating enough to read the details of and so I don't really understand why ( Read more... )

* People in Colorado (where I spent last week doing research) like to complain when the temperature hits 85 degrees. But given the lack of humidity I really didn't have any sympathy. I have even less now that I'm back in the muggy heat of the east coast ( Read more... )

Friday is our fifth wedding anniversary. To celebrate the fact that our marriage has survived five years, I got us a fancy shmancy hotel room in DC and we will spend the day hanging around there and the like ( Read more... )

I'm being procrastinatory, as I really am having trouble getting this paper finished and I really don't want to write this letter of recommendation, so here's my semiannual update on what's in my itunes catalog/on my ipodTotal library: 3089 items, 12.8 days, 16.4 GB ( Read more... )

Not that I needed their word, but Baseball Prospectus has declared it the end of the Braves era. And honestly, it's hard for me to disagree. I still think that the Braves aren't really as bad as they have been playing the last couple weeks, and that the Mets aren't as good as their record indicates and that they will lose momentum, but it's ( Read more... )

• Tangerine - I have posted many times before about my love of David Mead, so I suppose its not surprising that I will mention the new album. I like it. I think its clear that he wasn't trying to write a Big Hit Radio Single, and so none of the songs really stands out as much as some of the individual tracks on previous efforts, but he is trying to ( Read more... )

The left mouse button on my laptop's keyboard thinks that it is pressed down. But it's not. Physically the button is normal, but Windows seems to think it is pushed in and therefore is causing my all kinds of headaches. Any ideas how I can fix this problem?

(it's a Dell Latitude D500 running Windows XP if that makes a difference)

So I spent last week burnt out, pretending like i was getting work done but in actuality sitting around staring at papers without actually reading them.

I spent the holiday weekend working on the house. Pictures available at that place where I talk about that kind of stuff.This week I am thus far being pretty productive, as I am working on ( Read more... )

There's no doubt that my main Achilles Heel when it comes to television watching is that I watch far too much of it ( Read more... )