Gotta make this quick, because I'm leaving for Yosemite National Park aka Arguably The Best Place Ever, Or At Least One Of The Top Five, in a few minutes. Going to be up there for the weekend, probably do some hiking tomorrow - Half Dome is the plan if it's not pouring rain on us.

Check out the live Yosemite webcam at http://www.yosemite.org/vryos ( Read more... )

This has been popping up on friends' LJs. I like it. Let's see if I can do it without having print copies of all the books here:

Choose five of your all-time favorite books. (It's not gonna be five. It's gonna be some random number. Bear with me) Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal. Don't reveal the author ( Read more... )

The Game was this weekend. The Game, much like last year's, was amazing. The Game, for those not at Stanford, is a tradition out here: it's a scavenger hunt (technically I guess a treasure hunt, as it's a series of clues each leading to the next) around the entire Bay Area. You race other teams to the finish line. It can take 12 hours or more. This ( Read more... )

This week kinda confirms my theory that the beginning of the quarter is when I actually get to sit down and think about my life more than a week in advance. By halfway through I'm starting to get swamped with more immediate tasks, and the long-term planning goes out the window. Right now, there's a lot of it going on. Sooo...to summarize exciting ( Read more... )

So I make these mixes - just for myself, cause it's fun - once per quarter. I just stick all the songs in there that I either get really into at some point during the quarter, or that are associated with some specific memory. Pure chronological order, no attempt to rearrange them or anything. Interestingly enough, a couple of them have turned out ( Read more... )

Back from tour, having increased by over 50% the number of states I've visited (the full list by geographic region: Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Virginia, D.C., and now Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania). I deem it a successful, if hectic, ( Read more... )

I'm in Christina's room at Harvard stealing her wireless. Tour summary so far ( Read more... )

Phew, winter quarter needed to be over. It's been pretty intense ( Read more... )

Thoughts stemming from today's Humbio lecture, on the argument over scientific reductionism (E.O. Wilson vs. Stephen Jay Gould, to anyone like Noah who might actually know who those people are and what they say ( Read more... )

My current choice of music (see above) makes me happy. Such an awesome song ( Read more... )