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twitter
Twitter seems like the next step in the complete ADHD society... eventually we'll have messages that we can send to our 1000+ friends but are only composed of 1 word: "poop". The app will be called "shitter", and we will have finally gone full circle and joined our simian ancestors.
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quick update
So, where have I been? Building new eco-stone driveway, building glass bowl for new chandelier for dining room, building glass pendants to give away at Burning Man.
Where am I going? Off to see the redwoods, hike the Sierras near Donner Peak, see Yosemite, and then off to Burning Man....
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misc update
So, haven't posted in a bit so a random smattering:
Saw a heron sitting beside my pond yesterday evening. I was inside the dining room, maybe 15 feet from him. Never did quite appreciate the scale of those birds till then. It was pretty amazing.
The permit is in, the old curb is gone, hopefully they'll pour the new apron today. We're putting in a new ( Read more... ) -
RIP Dr. Sylvian Ray
Just read that my graduate adviser, Professor Sylvian Ray died on my birthday last year (Dec 12, 2007.) He was a neat guy, very gentle and quiet. He had been in computing for a long time, had worked on the ILLIAC III computer. He was a computationalist that loved playing with hardware which is part of what drew me to him as an adviser. I TA'ed his ( Read more... ) -
glass and travel
Spent the weekend in SLC visiting with family. My youngest sister had just graduated from college with a degree in Social Work. Was a nice visit, visited my family one day and my wife's the next and then gone. Didn't stay long enough for politics to come up as a topic, and that's always a good thing ( Read more... ) -
heavy metal cello
Thursday night I went to see Apocolyptica at the Roseland. I have an album of theirs: Apocolyptica Plays Metallica on Four Cellos. They are pretty good renditions, but the music on the album is pretty mellow considering it is Metallica. It shows some pretty good musicianship, but it sounds like something I'd expect to hear in a concert hall. Not ( Read more... ) -
oriental groceries
Went to Uijimaia (sp?) for the first time and was amused at how delightfully disorienting it was. Should I try some of that Lychee flavored soy milk with the Hello Kitty on the bottle? (Decided no, anything with a cartoon character probably isn't so good for you.) What is that? And those? And wow, I can get that pre-made ( Read more... ) -
china hutch window assembly complete
Window 1 has now been assembled and I've soldered the front side of it. Soldering is always an interesting process. It is where the piece truly becomes one rather than just a collection of parts. Tis a bit of an alchemical process ( Read more... ) -
karaoke
So I did karaoke for the first time last night. Went out with the dancers after Wednesday dance to Chopsticks III. It was quite fun. Went and chose out a song, and unfortunately I was the first one to go from our group. (I think if I had gone later I would have been less nervous as I got more relaxed as time went on... and I was only drinking ( Read more... )