No maps for these territories

Do any of you have a couchsurfing account? I just signed up for one yesterday on the advice of my new friends in SF who are off on a six-month round the world trip. They said it led them to meet cool people when they were away, which is always a goal of mine. Anyway, [...]

So far my April is as follows. Blame the quarter system. * 3 library instruction classes * 3 more co-taught library instruction classes * 2 workshops to organize * 2 big presentations to give * 2 staff classes to help with * 2 staff meetings to take notes at * and a partridge in a [...]

“Hyperbolic crochet,” from the Institute for Figuring: http://www.theiff.org/reef/index.html crochet + math + marine science = completely awesome.

Today I went to a presentation by the author of The Better World Handbook which is all about ways that one can improve the world (environmentally, politically, socially) by simple actions, such as shopping locally and banking responsibly and so on. It wasn’t a bad talk and it’s certainly not a bad set of principles [...]

I would just like it to be noted for the record that writing on a tight deadline about the single most distracting website to ever exist is really quite difficult.

I am donating my “Economic Stimulus Act of 2008″ payment to Planned Parenthood. Perhaps this will reduce the number of idiots who might ultimately become president. How about you?

Last night I had a vivid, highly detailed dream. I had secured something (a file? a database? a website? something important) with a password, and I spent the rest of the dream being terribly frustrated because I couldn’t remember that password. Like most people, I suspect, I have a set of standard passwords I use, [...]