Living across the street from the main downtown post office is often pretty nice. You're conveniently located if you, say, need to mail a package. It turns out it's not such a convenient place to live on April 15.

On the other hand, early morning construction crews outside your window? Pretty much never nice.

This may be the best idea ever ( Read more... )

By the way, to anyone who's read Sandman and likes Obama, someone put together a little animated gif using the dialogue of the contest between the demon and Morpheus from Sandman 4 and matched it up (humorously and appropriately) with the Democratic candidates. Leave a comment

I've been a big Obama fan since... I guess three or four years ago? Long before he was in any kind of serious consideration for the presidential nomination, when I started hearing about a young and charismatic Illinois senator who worked across party lines to get things done. I looked into it, and I liked what I found. I didn't really think he'd ( Read more... )

I'm in Chicago, yo.

I'm supposed to visit U of M's campus March 13-15 (Thursday through Saturday) for an open house. Does anyone in that area have a couch or floor space available to crash on? (Preferably for two, as Georgia would like to come along?) I'd need to be there from the evening of Wednesday the 12th through either Friday or Saturday night -- I'm pretty sure ( Read more... )

I've been studiously avoiding the internet for the past week, because I hadn't had a chance to read Harry Potter yet.

I finished it. I'm back. Hi, Internet. :)

I'd like to take a moment to publicly state my deep appreciation for the wonderful things Greek culture has given us.

I could make a list, but I'd probably get distracted after the first item. And I'm totally okay with that.

I'm not a fan of moving, but I always love the stuff that gets unearthed as part of the process.

For example, I found a card my aunt sent me on my 13th birthday, with the following inscription:

"I can't believe you're a teenager now! Seems like just yesterday, you were lying in your crib reading books!"

It's funny because it's true. :)

Lately, I've been reading Can Animals and Machines Be Persons. It was suggested to me as a kind of introduction to epistemology and what philosophy-folks call "the zombie problem", though it turns out I've actually dealt with most of the same problems in computer science before ( Read more... )