ahhh. whatever other life forms there may be in this universe or in other universes, I hope they are able to experience something as unambiguously and uncomplicatedly Good as cool sparkling water.

someone somewhere probably thinks the same thing about boiling ammonia.

( here is your opportunity to escape )

I had meant to come back and finish the fourth thought last night but I ended up doing something else. what was it? oh. I shaved and showered. wo0t!

( cut early and often )

So I got some sleep and some coffee and reread the third chapter of Sachs' The Buddha at War (and that apostrophe at the end of Sachs indicating possession? that used to be grammatical. I was taught that with names ending in "s," one could either add an apostrophe-s for possession or just the apostrophe. Sometime in the recent past some ( Read more... )

I'm just going to spill out some percolating thoughts here in what might also turn out to be a blog post which might itself--the blog that is--turn out to be migrated to wordpress soon because I got robotospammed and had to turn off comments and that's no way to run a blog but it has finally sunk in that I am not going to program php for a living ( Read more... )