I caught Definitely Not The Opera when the theme of the show was "The Lifecycle of Stuff." (mp3 here). It was light and fluffy, as DNTO is. But one suggestion by Will Straw, a historian and communications studies prof at McGill, made a lot of sense to me.

The idea meshes with a suggestion I've heard before, most recently by unclutterer on being faced with ( Read more... )

I just went to the going-away reception for a colleague of dan's, a man of many talents who is moving west to become a CTO at another University. There were hors d'oeuvre, wine, cheese. And there were many speeches; some entirely professional and largely boring, some more heartfelt messages with personal touches. But you could tell this man will ( Read more... )

Note to self: When you order Ethiopian food from the veggie place across from the bus depot, the right size for two people is $10 worth, not $20.

So our house is being haunted by the world's most Trivial Poltergeist. Particularly, the very pretty wooden clock in the dining room is haunted (see the top-right of this photo from d's citizenship party). The pendulum is entirely for show; it's powered by a battery. The Trivial Poltergeist will stop and start the pendulum at random intervals. ( Read more... )

Pseudoephedrine == bad juju for me. It's been long enough that I've not taken it, that I decided I'd give it another try. Dumb, dumb.

Side effects may include (more common) Nervousness; restlessness; trouble in sleeping; (less common) dizziness or lightheadedness; fast or pounding heartbeat; headache.Yup to all of those ( Read more... )

Three character traits I would like to work on. I've decided this is a goal for the rest of 2006, that I want to be able to measure real progress. Why post it publicly?

Why not?

( Cut for the non-introspectively minded this morning )

pandora.com was good to me this evening. I was trying to concentrate on some programming gunk, and it gave me just the sort of music I wanted. (since it's pandora, I can tell you exactly what that was, but I won't, cause that's not what this post is about).

This piece in particular is great. I'd never heard of Assemblage 23 outside of pandora, ( Read more... )