No maps for these territories

OK, I threatened to go to the Sasquatch music festival last year. But this year, the lineup includes: * R.E.M. * The Cure * The Flaming Lips * Death Cab * Ghostland Observatory!!!!! * The New Pornographers * Okkervil River * Sera Cahoone * Flight of the Conchords (!) and many many more. I kind [...]

I bought some salmon-red coloured tulips for my desk at the farmer’s market on my way home from work today; then the sunset obliged by being magnificently, briefly, the same lovely color. It is the color of the hints of warmness that mean spring.

the Times Machine is pretty cool.

Marvin Minsky writes about why math is hard to learn, in an essay posted on the OLPC wiki. It’s an interesting essay, and certainly Minsky brings a lifetime of experience and brilliance to bear, but he doesn’t seem to quite grasp the sheer gut-wrenching hatred that learning math (or not learning, as the case may [...]

Craving fried chicken and ice cream is incompatible with maintaining vegan diet, which is half-assed goal for week. Knock it off. kthx. —- I am bored, and stiff from sitting in my chair writing all day long, and I desperately want to curl up and watch season three of Veronica Mars, and I still have [...]

The new limerick database, brought to you by XKCD. Submit your own! At work, I have been known to compose irritated limericks about SAE and post them on the folder containing our downloading instructions, but I don’t think too many people would get those. Though, considering this, from the other night when the power went [...]

Now, doesn’t that sound like a lovely place to be a librarian? I guess I could make my threats to run away to an island a reality! (And, I note, they have a ridiculously long job description/list of qualifications. I would have thought “willingness to show up” would be good enough.)