because i just did fucking four hours of microscopy.
The last few weeks have been a comparative deluge (if two things can be considered deluginous) of high-tech toys. first a pimped-out macbook (which i'm writing this on) and a scant couple weeks later, a Cellular Telephone (658-4227). of course, the first thing i did with both was to add all sorts of cool software and features of varying legality, involving words like "transcoding" and "extensible" and "bluetooth". the macbook can now boot into windows, a very disorienting sight, and the cellphone now rings in shades of indie for shades of the four people i have on there. gonna have to do some number-adding.
aside: to think verizon expects me to pay three dollars for their hacked up and edited ringtones, when i can just use my own mp3 library with (sorta) minimal effort and finagling. fpa! further, they expect me to buy their "usb adapter cable" when the phone has bluetooth. god.
the maccabees are super cool, and anybody with a mac should get Quicksilver and Virtuedesktops. and world of warcraft is only fun to you if you're a loser. science is best performed in an airless room.
in two days i go once more on the yearly pilgrimage of the Mosses (ooh! that reminds me, my computer's "name" on the local network here is "unassuming bryophyte". lil phylum joke, there) to Cape Cod. (grammar-fu!) This used to be my escape from all forms of distracting modern media, but they put a tv in the cottage now, and i'll have a laptop and a cellphone (not of my own choice) so i dunno. in any case, i have three weeks of blissful beach-lounging and bike-getting-lost-somewhere-in-sandwiching to look forward to, and whatever else might happen.
every year at the cape I find new things to get into, and this year it may very well be kinetic sculpture. I've been wanting to try this for a very long time, and just recently i stumbled upon the page of David C. Roy at http://www.woodthatworks.com/. oh my god. that! that's exactly what i want to try! random people on ebay sell cheap ball bearings and things, but i'll see what can be had over at the cape. i'll try to break last year's record of 1.571 books per day, too, but that won't be easy.
I am very much looking forward to college, and am the first in the world ever to demonstrate cytoplasmic streaming independent of actin. so far as i know. that's a cool thing.
macs really are as simple, efficient and sophisticated as they say. i'm a convert! every time i have to boot into windows for something, games or whatever, it's like throwing away all the tools and going back to rocks and sticks. quicksilver is cool. i am warm.
ooh, cranberries.
aside: to think verizon expects me to pay three dollars for their hacked up and edited ringtones, when i can just use my own mp3 library with (sorta) minimal effort and finagling. fpa! further, they expect me to buy their "usb adapter cable" when the phone has bluetooth. god.
the maccabees are super cool, and anybody with a mac should get Quicksilver and Virtuedesktops. and world of warcraft is only fun to you if you're a loser. science is best performed in an airless room.
in two days i go once more on the yearly pilgrimage of the Mosses (ooh! that reminds me, my computer's "name" on the local network here is "unassuming bryophyte". lil phylum joke, there) to Cape Cod. (grammar-fu!) This used to be my escape from all forms of distracting modern media, but they put a tv in the cottage now, and i'll have a laptop and a cellphone (not of my own choice) so i dunno. in any case, i have three weeks of blissful beach-lounging and bike-getting-lost-somewhere-in-sandwiching to look forward to, and whatever else might happen.
every year at the cape I find new things to get into, and this year it may very well be kinetic sculpture. I've been wanting to try this for a very long time, and just recently i stumbled upon the page of David C. Roy at http://www.woodthatworks.com/. oh my god. that! that's exactly what i want to try! random people on ebay sell cheap ball bearings and things, but i'll see what can be had over at the cape. i'll try to break last year's record of 1.571 books per day, too, but that won't be easy.
I am very much looking forward to college, and am the first in the world ever to demonstrate cytoplasmic streaming independent of actin. so far as i know. that's a cool thing.
macs really are as simple, efficient and sophisticated as they say. i'm a convert! every time i have to boot into windows for something, games or whatever, it's like throwing away all the tools and going back to rocks and sticks. quicksilver is cool. i am warm.
ooh, cranberries.