Currently Reading: "The Jewel in the Crown" - Paul Scott (rec. from a friend)

Hmmmmmm? I hit my head three times today. ALSO

From my friend George Dvorsky's top-shelf blog Sentient Developments:

From London (and Emily Horne from ASW was just mentioning how the forth plinth in Trafalgar Square will have a giant International Klein Blue rooster atop it ( Read more... )

Currently Reading: "With a Little Help" > - Cory Doctorow

As an odd coincidence Poulenc's sonata for clarinet and piano came on the radio at work the day after my last post. Vaughan Bell wrote about the Wikipedia page on common misconceptions just days after XKCD did a comic about the same subject (though he claimed in the comments that this was an ( Read more... )

Currently Reading: "Subnormality" (entire archive >) - Winston Roundtree


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My plans on New Years changed quite quickly, a fifty degree day directly previous melted all of the snow, so instead of sledding I began the night in Ames at The Cafe, ordering the Macaroni and Cheese (with lobster, basil, and breadcrumbs) chatting with friends about gun caches, the viability of using Wal-marts for zombie apocalypses (I opine that ( Read more... )

In the year 2010 I traveled more than I ever have before, I worked more than I ever have before, I wrote more than I ever have before, I slept more than I ever have before, I flew more than I ever have before, I donated, networked, and organized more than I ever have before, and entire long-held segments of my youth crumbled finally and inevitably ( Read more... )

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Currently Reading: "Troilus and Cressida" -  rewritten by an anonymous author to be still more depressing

I've encountered an ethical dilemma these past few sleepy days, and it is consequentially complicated. There have been unintended consequences to a planned course of action that I took, and while I was aware of the exigency now living in it I ( Read more... )

Currently Reading: "The Book Nobody Read" - Owen Gingerich

I watched the winter solstice eclipse from my street outside just now.

I resolved today to eventually buy a golden tie stud and leather gloves, thanks to Evan Dahm

Tavinho finally decided to release his program, so if you've heard me talk about him using it, here it finally is

also I LAN' d all ( Read more... )

Currently Reading: "Mythematics" - Michael Huber

It's been snowing a bit. One of the stronger justifications I wrote about in WillFAQ may have just been smashed, annoyingly, but there are hundreds more... I just chose the wrong one to cite as an example and now the document is dated.

In other ways, it is not :D

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Nice work Oval! Of course this somewhat brings me back to an article recently posted in the New York Times:

Taste is not stable and peaceful, but a means of strategy and competition. Those superior in wealth use it to pretend they are superior in spirit. Groups closer in social class who yet draw their status from different sources use taste and ( Read more... )