Yes, I am actually still alive. And finally winding down after the close to the semester.

I was in Pittsburgh all last week, with the triple-headed purpose of spending time with binxcat, going to a project meeting for the research I'm working on with my former advisor, and for the retirement of Dr. L., a professor of mine at Pitt and someone who has ( Read more... )

Our new conductor for the Mason Community Orchestra is not only a really gifted guy, he's a closet geek. He drops the most interesting (and strangely relevant) references in making analogies and metaphors during rehearsals. Early on, it was something about Super Mario Brothers, which of course immediately got my attention ( Read more... )

This is made of pure awesome.

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Shooting at the sleepy Bidwell Tavern in Coventry, down the road from where I grew up
Girl arrested for bringing a knife to school - my, psychowoof's, and harliquinn's old middle school.

Mulder: I’m reading the box scores, Scully. You’d like it. It’s like the Pythagorean Theorem for jocks. It distills all the chaos and action of any game in the history of all baseball games into one tiny, perfect, rectangular sequence of numbers. I can look at this box and I can recreate exactly what happened on some sunny summer day back in 1947. ( Read more... )

It's come to my attention that Jonathan Coulton is performing in Northampton MA on Thursday, 3 April. I have also been made aware by his website that he grew up in Colchester (adjacent to hometown for me, harliquinn, psychowoof and just down the road for aslanspawh and jazzmasterson) and was a band geek.

It has also come to my attention that he is currently touring with Paul and Storm. ( Read more... )

Apparently, East Lansing has a film festival.
According to its schedule, Bruce Campbell's new movie My Name is Bruce (star and director) is being screened, tomorrow night ( Read more... )

Witness March and Procession of Bacchus by Leo Delibes. You'll need to download the (very innocuous) Sibelius Scorch plug-in to hear the music.

Do those opening strains sound familiar to anyone?

EDIT: As an alternative, here's the iTunes Music Store link too.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Boston Red Sox ace closer, Jonathan Papelbon:


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...who has discovered the Flickr set of Song Charts. Seriously, you go look. It's like some special hell overseen by Tufte and Dick Clark in there.

A tease, for binxcat:

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