1. Arrive home from work with plan to do math homework.
2. Procrastinate for two hours. Do not play Rock Band, because you are supposed to be doing homework and that would be wrong. Thus totally fail to maximize the use of your procrastination time.
3. Actually start doing homework.
4. After working for a while, realize:
1. You've gotten a quarter of one problem done ( Read more... )

I've been slow to acknowledge my debt to Benoit Mandelbrot. Anyway, the icon says it all.

The great thing about movies with fake movies in them is the fake movie posters.

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It's been a while since I've done one of these.

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This Saturday, May 15th, I am performing the Bach Mass in B Minor with the Back Bay Chorale. The concert starts at 8 PM and will be in Sanders Theater at Harvard University. There will be a preconcert lecture at 7 for those who are interested in learning about the music before the concert ( Read more... )

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I need to stop listening to Peter Gabriel's cover of "The Book of Love" (originally by the Magnetic Fields) at work. That song totally fucks me up.

This Saturday night (the 13th) I am once again singing with the Back Bay Chorale. We are performing Handel's Israel in Egypt. If you're into plagues with Handelian swagger, this is the concert for you. We are performing at Sanders Theater at Harvard University, and the frogs and locusts and hail begin at 8 PM. Tickets are $25 and up. The music is a ( Read more... )

nbcolympics.com has full unedited video feeds of the Winter Olympics, without commentary. It requires installing their video player, but does not require registration (unlike the edited videos of the NBC broadcasts with their annoying commentary ( Read more... )

Handel wrote the oratorio Judas Maccabaeus as a political allegory.