It has been many months since I have posted.  I was spending too much time surfing LiveJournal, and not getting to more important responsibilities, so I quit cold turkey.  If I haven't replied to your posts in months, that is why.  I haven't seen them.

But I was emailing someone about a recent dream I had that I had found fascinating, and I ( Read more... )

So, I've been reading the book Blink, which talks about the importance of snap judgements in decision making, as opposed to the long encouraged rational analytical mode.  Because my mom is something of a loose cannon, who makes all kinds of sudden and often destructive snap judgements, and I've always been closer to my dad, who is deeply committed ( Read more... )

Longish entry below the cut.

This afternoon I drove down to Santa Cruz from Felton to go swimming with my friend Irene and her two little ones.  I noticed a man standing by the side of the road.  I took another look at him in my rear view mirror, and saw that he had a white beard, and his thumb out.

I don't generally pick up strangers when I am ( Read more... )

No wonder our view of what (who) is beautiful is so skewed...


Don't know if the link I tried to embed worked...haven't done it before.  but if it doesn't, you can find it by pasting this link in your address line...
http://www.metacafe.com/

http://www.brotherhood2.com/?page_id=63

Not Safe to listen to/watch at work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqa7cbdOC8

So,  I've discovered a cool website today, and am enjoying exploring it. 
The home page is:
http://zompist.com/default.html

Some amusing locations:

http://zompist.com/amercult.html 
Attempts to define American culture.  ( Read more... )

On April 12th of this year, in a small, poor town in Indiana, a young man was beaten to death over the course of hours, by other young men who have since claimed they killed him because he propositioned one of them.   Before clicking on the links, I warn you, it is a really vicious, brutal crime, and the victim suffered for hours before his death ( Read more... )

The foot is doing okay. Tomorrow will be six weeks since I broke it. I'm scheduled to have a follow up x-ray on the 22nd of June.

I can put weight on it now, in fact, I sometimes walk short distances--like across theroom--without crutches. It tends to be a little swollen at the end of the day.  A physical therapist I met at a party a few days ( Read more... )

In Which a librarian in training uses her research skills to diagnose her injury--correctly, as it turns out.

After falling into the drainage ditch I limped into the house, and put a bag of frozen peas on my foot.  Then I went back to writing papers.  A couple hours later, there was a lump on the outside of the foot, like half an egg cut ( Read more... )