Guh. I feel like the only thing good in my day so far is the Obama Reggaeton song from Amigos De Obama, which I heard on the Frow Show podcast. I love Jesse's picks, but I have to manually download the mp3s (oh, boohoo, boohoo, Knile is reduced to the year 2005) because of some wonkiness I have yet to figure out. Now, just because I'm enjoying the ( Read more... )

I just got news from davelogredux (who works for Congressman Patrick Murphy) that Colby Umbrell, Hopkins '04, died in Iraq. Colby lived down the hall from me freshman year. He played football, was a WaWa (Alpha Delta Phi) brother, and was a sweet moose of a man. He once spilled laundry detergent on my CD binder ( Read more... )

Just now I was catching up on some e-mails from today. I hit Check mail expecting only to see the copies of the messages I'd just sent. There was one from an address that I didn't recognize. The subject told me everything I needed to know: "In Memory of Jonathan Grassbaugh".

( The text of the e-mail was as follows: )

So. I have been tagged twice for this 10-things meme. And I have 1-2 other LJ entries I've been writing in my head for a week - one fluffy, one seriousy. We'll see if either of those see the light of day. Depends on how my next 30 hours go, I guess. (Nothing too big going on, just shit to do ( Read more... )

And from my old neighborhood in Rochester, a pair of suspicious deaths. This house is a few feet behind my old building. I could see it from the parking lot. Though, to be fair, we're not sure this was a homicide. At least Rochester's murder rate is lower than Baltimore's. I must say I am NOT a fan of the ability of readers/users to comment on ( Read more... )

We're batting 1.000 for crappy weather on 110 exam days. I imagine that'll keep up ( Read more... )

Well, the Cardinals beat the Mets. I hadn't watched much baseball this season, but saw some crazy stuff happening in that game. It also always blows my mind the variety & depth of statistics they crank out during a game ( Read more... )

I kind of really hate how I'm consistently 5-15 minutes late for everything. This morning I woke up at 9 (which felt oh so early), did some morning things but skipped breakfast or coffee, and still managed to be late to class. Which is terrible, because as soon as I got there, I was excused from being there. See, we were showing a movie as Alex is ( Read more... )

Updates from the Knile-world ( Read more... )

Peter Ladefoged has passed away ( Read more... )