No maps for these territories

from: http://xkcd.com/c238.html

This is the best Go Fug Yourself I have read in a long, long time.

What keeps us going in this country, in this world? An occurring question, one I do not like to ask. I don’t like the answers, because they seem so rough and unsuitable; like something that won’t get to the heart of the matter.
Boris Yeltsin died Monday, as I read in this evening’s paper in [...]

1) It was dry and sunny and lovely here all winter, except on the two weekends when I have company. I always want to sit inside and write when it’s rainy, but nooo, company wants to go out & do things. Company yesterday (my aunt and uncle) did buy me a delicious fish dinner, though. [...]

Just once, I would like to have an inbox under 5,000 messages. Is that too much to ask?

A few moments stolen before falling asleep; I have been so tired lately. My aunt was here last weekend, which was lovely; we went to the beach at Sonoma coast (waves, crashing rocks, sand dunes, tiny jellyfish washed up on the beach and desertion) and to San Francisco and Berkeley, and we walked around in [...]

To follow up on that last post:
It’s not that the information isn’t findable; I’m sure it is, perhaps in one of the half-dozen books on Germanium chemistry and superconductors that I’ll try taking a look at tomorrow. It’s more that the combination of being faced with a new term, an unfamiliar topic, resources I’m still [...]