well. i made it to fairbanks. it's been almost two weeks. internet access is, as i thought, a chancy thing. the closest free internet to where i live is the lobby of the Westmark Hotel, which is a chain owned by Holland America. which is kind of nice: since i work for HAL, i get discounts here and they don't care if i hang out in the lobby ( Read more... )

it's been a while, i realize. and it's probably going to be even longer before i write again. in 9 days i move to alaska, and i have no idea whatsoever what my internet situation will be like there. also, quite frankly, i don't feel compelled to write here as often anymore, as i have begun keeping a proper - paper - journal ( Read more... )

i have seen ridiculous. now you can, too.

http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/

one of the classes i'm taking this term is a library sciences course on how to use archival material for research. it's obvious benefits aside, the course has one amazing drawback ( Read more... )

so the big news of the day: the catholic church is worried about the da vinci code, thinking some viewers might think it tells the truth rather than a fictional story. the church is a fine one to talk on this subject ( Read more... )

http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/Read more... )

no, this isn't about iraq. or americans. or even, really, hurting people ( Read more... )

there's a word that means 'the collection and study of postage stamps.'

it's philately.

i seem to have, accidentally, gotten myself roped into a MMORPG.

strange, i know.

the game is Puzzle Pirates. the game is free and very simple: play a number of games and rise through the ranks of piracy. arr!

reading history seems to lead to a lot of 'that sounds familiar' kind of thinking. i'm amazed by latin, in particular. the roman politicians were strikingly similar to modern politicians. or maybe i've got it backwards. but that is neither here nor there.

my current book is a terribly uplifting work by John Kelly: The Great Mortality: An ( Read more... )