Things pile up... Standing still is not an option; one must constantly climb to keep from getting dumped on ( Read more... )

Yesterday, had the house to myself for the whole day... Spent about 4 hours finishing my C project for programming, spent about 2 hours weeding & mowing, and then another 5 hours working on my EM Waves homework (Laplace operators, Maxwell's Equations, vector fields, dogs & cats living together... Mass hysteria)... This morning I am exhausted, ( Read more... )

There is a tendency in one's early thirties to give up on the childish bullshit embraced during the early twenties and understand that there are forces in this world that transcend optimism, hope, and positivity. The early thirties seems to be the time that Westerners tend to take a long shift toward centrist, practical perspectives that aren't so ( Read more... )

While listening to my profs drone on about complex power and transfer functions, I have this terrific fantasy where I walk to the front of the class during the lecture, pull down my pants, take a huge shit on the floor (or the desk, or the overhead), wipe my ass with my lecture notes, then quietly pull up my pants and sit back down. I imagine the ( Read more... )

I was taking the elevator to the 8th floor of the MD Anderson Library, when I noticed that someone had tagged the top of the elevator door. Most graffiti is rather obnoxious, usually fluffy, meaningless tripe like "Kaoss" or "AnarKee" or some other grossly misspelled drivel, or at best some semi-attractive artwork ( Read more... )

Finally made some friends in DC, even if it was in the last week of my time here. The couple next door totally kick ass, and they've cooked dinner for me a couple of times now... Great stuff: lentils the first time, pizza the second time. Goddamn wonderful. To make it up to them, I cooked them migas and refried black beans for breakfast a few ( Read more... )

Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski.

Goddamn, how does Earthbound, an 8-bit Super NES game, kick so much ass? I've played dozens of newer games that aren't half as compelling as this one is.

The music is absolutely lovely, as well... I especially love it when the composers went for the Ambient sound during more peaceful parts of the game.

Friday is my last day in DC. I'll be very ( Read more... )

Old, sephia-toned film is indescribably eerie, which is probably what makes this Mogwai video so oddly creepy (that and the potato fetus). There is a "movie" called Decasia that is nothing but a 90-minute montage of discarded, partly-decayed film footage from the early 20th century set to eerie, droning music. Oddly compelling, but quite overlong ( Read more... )