He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in unchanging love.

A long discussion between me and my brother about the LOST finale. Don't read this if you haven't watched LOST. It will not only spoil the finale, but the entire run of what was the best TV show ever made.

( DEVASTATING SPOILERS )

I want to write an article called "LOST and the Future Perfect"

Juggling and math are the same insofar as they're really tough until they're done, at which point they're trivial ( Read more... )

My father's inheritance arrived in an aluminum urn, hollow in the center and heavy, dropped on the doorstep by the man in the brown uniform with a thick musky thud. Inside a teletype roll over a hundred feet long, dirty at the margins, covered with the ghost of words wrapped up on the inside, each following one another in the order he had ( Read more... )

I am the ICU screener. This normally means evaluating patients for whether they need the intensive care unit or are stable for the regular floor. For me it becomes a license to roam the hospital trying to fix everything I can ( Read more... )

It's a great tragedy of New York City that the most beautiful views of the skyline are from across the river in New Jersey.


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I am doing other things beside teaching myself to write right-handed. I'm writing a paper on a man drunk on a mirror-image molecule produced by a normally beneficial bacterium, and contemplating a move to the far west coast and abandoning my beloved Manhattan, just like I gave up my dear desert for New York four years ago.

Briefly ( Read more... )

I'm teaching myself to write right-handed. I'm guessing that this will change my thought patterns and personality, though that's secondary effect rather than primary intent.

Subspecialization is an age-spot; the bark thickens and moss grows up all around.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And ( Read more... )