I got a huge box of comics in the mail last week, and I’ve been catching up ( Read more... )

I'm headed to a talk on campus at 4pm today, for any in the Bloomington crowd who may be interested:

Doug Hofstadter will be giving a talk called The Main Ideas of "I Am a Strange Loop" at 4pm in the Psychology Building room 101 ( Read more... )

There are a lot of interesting news stories sneaking under the mainstream radar right now, and the reason they aren’t getting a lot of attention is that they require some historical awareness in order to understand them. So here’s a small review ( Read more... )

Hello everyone ( Read more... )

Dude, you totally have to like, KNOW a bunch of stuff to write an encyclopedia entry.

That's bogus. Knowing stuff takes a lot of work, and that's like really lame. And stuff.

Earlier this week (9/19), while Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was in New York preparing to speak to the UN General Assembly, General Sondhi Boonyaratkalin (the first Muslim military commander in Thailand’s history) joined forces with top military officials and surrounded the absent Prime Minister’s offices with tanks and troops. He ( Read more... )

The fall semester has a good feel to it so far ( Read more... )

The trip to San Francisco this weekend was excellent; Brad and Jess had an absolutely gorgeous wedding. I filmed much of the event, and I’ll be editing together a wedding video soon. Filming weddings is difficult. Getting the “ritual” part of the wedding is complex, because it’s not easy to get a good stable spot. If I do a wedding video again ( Read more... )

Striking back against writer’s block - day 2. My plan is to keep writing every day until my brain gets unclogged and I can express myself fluidly again. I won’t be on LJ this weekend (Friday through Sunday) because I’m flying up to San Francisco for Brad and Jess’ wedding. Normally I’d take my computer along and find a cafe where I could write, ( Read more... )

Writer’s block has been killing me. There’s a weird thing that can happen when I’m not writing enough. First, there’s a glut of ideas that start to get backed up in my brain - I almost always have some observation in the course of a day that would be worthwhile to write down. When I don’t write them down, they get clogged up and somehow make my ( Read more... )