I haven't written about soccer in a while, in spite of it being a trigger for some surprisingly interesting thinking lately. I've had a couple conversations with Mark after games lately about taking an increasing amount of pride in being a clean player. It's a logical extension of valuing finesse. In a way, it's kind of like how I approach ( Read more... )

Today: another day of too much Go and not enough writing ( Read more... )

So I looked at my journal recently and was surprised at how long it has been since I posted. I've actually been accumulating some experiences and thoughts that I've meant to get in here for a little over a week now. We'll see how I do at recollecting them. Well, actually, we won't really because we'll never know about the ones I've forgotten, ( Read more... )

Kind of busy day today. I had a meeting in the morning with Todd Jusko to work on our letter to Neurotoxicology. It seems to be coming along pretty well ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, and I'm a little irked and concerned that I'm up at 2 and not even vaguely tired. I guess I did get up at 10 til 10, so that's not so unreasonable. Though it is rapidly becoming so. Time to club myself with Ambien, I think ( Read more... )

The zombie episode of Cherub is live.  I played one of the zombies.  Season 2 has gotten some great buzz, including coverage in Wired ( Read more... )

I'm in the market for a housemate, for those who did not know, and I'm trying to get a better sense of what to tell potential housemates about me and what I am like to live with. It occurred to me that it might be useful to get other people's perspective and that this might be a good forum to do that.  Plus it'd just be interesting to see.  Any ( Read more... )

Walking along Union in between 21st and 20th, I walked passed two rather bedraggled Amerinds, one carrying a sleeping bag in his left hand. Underneath an old down jacket, he wore a t-shirt whose text was partially obscured by the jacket, but said

e Silent.
nsume.
Die.

I recently received my 5 year employment award from the University. It's actually a rather nice lapel pin/tie tack with the UW seal on it. I was trying to figure out where I should keep it and eventually decided the best place would be the small box that I keep my jewelry in. Mind you I haven't worn any of this jewelry in more than 5 years. But ( Read more... )

I was in Minneapolis all last week to attend the Joint Statistical Meetings and visit John McKeown.  The last night that I was out there, John and I hung out with Zilla and Gidget and David Meyer at Dave's house.  This was the first time that I'd met David and the first time I had a non-superficial conversation with Gidget.  We took a bunch of ( Read more... )