Yesterday a co-worker told me about his ride to work, where he met another cyclist who took a slightly different route (my co-worker didn't like to stop for lights) but repeatedly met each other where the routes converged, all the way from Skyline to Foothill to Middlefield to Maude. His excitement at meeting someone who lives near where he does, ( Read more... )

I'm actually a very sentimental person.


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Finally listened to the new Portishead (Third). It's really, really good.

I really resisted liking Cut Copy for a while, but I'm now completely obsessed with the song "So Haunted". It's just so catchy, damn it. I also love the way the singer drags out the word "life ( Read more... )

I was unaware of Toshio Iwai's work until recently. (aside: it's interesting how things tend to happen together. First the Mutek mailing list told me about the Tenori-on launch event in Montréal, which I can't go to, then my "audio guy" co-worker showed me a video of it while we were looking at the Korg NDS synth, then another co-worker talked ( Read more... )

I saw Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame' the other evening, and I've been thinking about it. I'm trying to find symbolism everywhere. Why is one window looking to the earth, and the other to the ocean? Why are they so high that a ladder is needed to look out of them? Why the insistence of the telescope? Why does Hamm insist on being in the exact center of ( Read more... )

Last Monday a few of us had a tasty meal at Jayakarta, an Indonesian/Singaporean restaurant near UC Berkeley. We ordered the following:

• Otak-otak panggang - grilled fish cake - probably my least favorite of the night.
  
• Roti prata - the roti was appropriately crispy and chewy at the same time, however not a big fan of the curry sauce. I prefer ( Read more... )

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I didn't know that the MC building at Waterloo has an actual architectural style: Brutalist architecture. (scroll down for a pic of the MC!)