I got tagged a few times, but I don't like forcing memes on people. Sorry for not lj-cutting this, but it's going to facebook ... anyway, maybe you will learn something about me from this ( Read more... )

1. Mind as Landscape ( Read more... )

I've recently connected with a group starting a women's bike collective in Montreal! This is exciting for a number of reasons, including women, bicycles and collectives ( Read more... )

Considering how long I've been trying to develop this particular set of ideas, it's somehow hilarious that in the space of a week I've finished an article draft, presented at a colloquium on some of my more "alternative" analytic approaches, and submitted an abstract to a conference. Years of holding my research close to my chest have come to an ( Read more... )

I'll be dog sitting these two dachshounds for a week and while they are quite cute, and affectionate and protective, I am most definitely a cat person. Don't get me wrong, dogs are nice, but the way to my heart takes a bit more psychological toying than my cuddly charges are capable of. Cooperation between equals is more my style than compliant ( Read more... )

Sure I'm watching a Jane Austen biopic with popcorn and soda, but the first is seasoned with peanut butter (plain, organic) and the pop is flavoured rhubarb.

The squirrels see a different tree.
I'd like to have their perspective.

You know you're a math kid when you as satisfied with the graph title: "Plank's Law for Black Body Radiation, or u*e^(-u) with some constants"

So it's been about a month that I've been avoiding fiction. It turns out that I am allowing historical opera, poetry, and This American Life short stories when I don't notice in time. For the most part, I've had plenly of alternative activities and distractions to replace the info and experience absorption niche. Podcasts subscriptions seem to have ( Read more... )

Beautiful! Bizarre! British! Check out the Costing the earh video. It stars Stephen Fry as the planet Earth. He referes to deforestation as a "full brazilian".