First off, I put up like four or five new pictures on MySpace, having mastered the difficult art of "re-sizing" so MySpace will accept them. Truth be told, I don't like the reduced file size versions all that much. Not only cause they are smaller, but because the picture quality is reduced. All the new pictures are from the two weeks my parents ( Read more... )

The Onion, the best source of fake news online, is doing this 10-year anniversary thing where they look at the best stories from each year. Anyway, today is a look back at 2001, and I happened upon one of my favorite Onion stories ever. It is both amazingly funny and chillingly prophetic, given it was written in January 2001. Enjoy: Leave a comment

My parents headed home today, beginning the long car trek across the country. I really had a great time while they were here. In many ways, it was probably the best family vacation we ever had together. It wasn't so much the places we went or anything like that (one of which I will talk about more in a minute) as much as it was just much more ( Read more... )

I just got back last night after spending a few days at the Grand Canyon with my parents. Yes, the canyon is awesome, and so is sunset over the canyon. No, pictures don't really do it justice. Especially the feeling of walking along the canyon rim trail and peering over the edge to a several thousand foot drop off. But I am a pretty odd person ( Read more... )

Well, I am heading out tomorrow for the Grand Canyon. Spending four days there with my family before getting back here to Santa Barbara on Thursday night. Hopefully I can be a little more pleasant than I was on my first trip to the Grand Canyon, when I was 15 and complained the whole time. Why do we act like that when we're 15 anyway?

I had started with this series of entries that were supposed to be meaningful somehow, to work out this central question about death and life and eternity and transience and existence and all of that. But I stopped writing because I realized I had gotten ahead of myself. So now I will back up, then move forward, and then finally get back to the ( Read more... )

So first chocolate, now beer!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20060526/hl_hsn/dailydrinkingcutsheartdiseaseriskformen

What a week of great news, no? At this rate I'll live forever with a staggering intellect.

The war between the mind and the body heats up.Scientists have found that milk chocolate boosts brain power. And what is the coolest part of all, it came from Wheeling Jesuit University! Go Wheeling! Here's the link ( Read more... )

I haven't forgotten the train of thought I started last week. Despite its incessant rambling, it has barely scratched the surface. But anyway, this is just a fun aside, a headline with some passages from this weeks' Onion. I thought grad students especially would get a kick out of it ( Read more... )

But I am getting way ahead of myself! Hold on a minute, slow down. I don't think I'm quite ready for that part yet, the part that's all mushy and gooey and happy and full of half-truth and doe eyes and all kinds of other sappy stuff. (Though I must say I intend to do a good job of making even that part cut a little more sharply ( Read more... )