This is going to be a short, but much needed, to the point update. This is a time of great changes.

For those of you who are not already aware, I am going to Africa for a period of about seven months. I am going there to study wild baboons just outside of Cape Town (their habitat is further up the Cape of Good Hope actually). I know some things ( Read more... )

So I went to see Flogging Molly again (and Parliament/Funkadelic a few weeks ago, hence the "ironic" title - more on George Clinton another time... maybe). It will probably be amusing to read the original post from more than three years ago ( Read more... )

Despite my term review via the live musical medium, I felt I ought to review my success with a new branch of leisure activities: audiobooks. Late in summer I started listening to audiobooks during workouts since I realized that this was a valuable source for multitasking. When I started commuting every day, it became clear that I could listen to a ( Read more... )

This term I went to quite a few concerts. For me anyway. For mostly people I'd bet, except for you "underground" people who go to every hardkore punktronica band that rolls into town and is up to no good. Most notably, I ended up with what I thought to be a reasonably impressive level of variety, which I did not even strive for. Also, for the most ( Read more... )

This is a round-up, which I am past due for. In the past I often go over everything. Now I am merely going address the stuff I found particularly interesting or good in the past while since I did this.

The Derek Trucks Band - I like slide guitar. Some years back, Rolling Stone put out an issue headlined, "The New Guitar Gods" featuring three great ( Read more... )

Well, now I'm a graduate. Ceremony was dull, although the MP3 player was such an excellent choice. Throughout the half hour procession to Killian I listened to Artemis Fowl, and kept going with that after the speeches finished. Being experienced in the boredom of MIT commencements on two previous occasions, I knew what to do, and didn't really give ( Read more... )

First and most recently, Capen and I went to see Dream Theater last night, which was pretty fucking amazing. Seats turned out not to be so bad; after Opeth we slipped down a few rows toward the center and were about 30 feet from the stage. You could see almost everything but part of the screen and the keyboardist. They even played the songs I'm ( Read more... )

No, this isn't a damn fucking thing about my UROP or anything like that in any way. It just HAPPENS that the bloody story has this title. I didn't choose it. Oh, what story you may ask ( Read more... )

I think I am going to try posting more often again ( Read more... )

I haven't been this sick since I came down with the stomach flu when I was a frosh. I get a minor cold and when I think I'm almost recovered, BOOM bronchial infection WOOOOOOOOO. I suppose it was arrogant to set the new currency to "Look the fuck out" and expect not to be hit myself ( Read more... )