Feel free to add your own selections, and I will update as we go. [Postdated]

( Roll Call )

14 April 06
Lyon

flitterkit inexplicably found a silkworm inching across her tray table on the TGV this morning. I dashed out at the Valence stop to leave him in a grassy patch. My good deed for the day.

*****So, Lyon. I am going to eat this city ( Read more... )

I want to post long, eloquent passages on television, alternate realities, and surprise parties. Given time pressures, I instead will post about this interesting hypothesis on parallel evolution.

This, in turn, will allow me to say that I'm TIRED OF THESE MOTHER^%*&ING SNAKES!!!

The Celtics are now undefeated in this century in games hvanaels and I have attended together ( Read more... )

A double birthday shout-out to flitterkit (yesterday) and night_work (today). Yay!

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The other day, maxrobbin asked me to delineate between different styles of techno (and woe unto the person who regularly uses the word "electronica"). I gave him a basic, amateurish rundown of the differences between house, trance, ambient, and so on. The classification was complicated ( Read more... )

The Good: It's nice to have relatives overseas who care enough to enquire about one's well-being . . .

The Bad: . . . even if they are calling to ask about a hurricane that touched land over 1000 miles away . . .

The Ugly: . . . and doing so at 3:15 in the morning.

I try not to be too much of a fascist when it comes to grammar. And I love the Boston Globe sports pages; they do superb work, day in and day out. Furthermore, I think Ron Borges is a terrific writer ( Read more... )

. . . meme of my own creation. Actually, not really of my own creation--I'm stealing it from the BBC.

( History )

I never truly accept that Spring has arrived until the first blooming of the lilacs. Of course, it is always near-Summer by the time that happens, so my hesitancy is understandable.

Cool rain.

A little bit of goofy happiness that wended its way across my desk a few days ago . . . OverClocked Remix is a website dedicated to new arrangements and mixes of video and computer game music.

There is something remarkably giddying about the entire thing, and much of the music is superb. This lovely orchestral arrangement of the theme from Beyond ( Read more... )