The dogwoods are beautiful outside.

This week has been very musical, which I'm glad of. I went to see Lucy Kaplansky on Wednesday with E. It was very good, if a little lacking on the high notes this time around. She's apparently working on a new album, so she was trying out a lot of new stuff, especially covers, it seems. The most amusing was Lyle Lovett's "God Will"Last night, I saw ( Read more... )

Stolen from gisho, a meme.

What do you wear at all times?

I always have my glasses on except when asleep. More often than not, I'm wearing hiking socks if it's cold enough for shoes.

What do you always carry on your person?
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December and January seem to be the times for introspective entries. I'm not very good at them; I try to avoid them, actually. So, instead, we have, for your further enlightenment a letter which, I think, aptly sums up our society. That's not to say that I advocate any particular movement for social justice or anything, but just that we (or, at ( Read more... )

I was recently inspired by gisho's game [See entry here.] to figure out exactly how far down Google's ranking on the term "internet" anything having to do with the actual Internet itself was. Impressively, the Internet Society made #7.

In browing their site, I found this. Wow, this really bugs me. Someone needs to figure these sovereignty issues out. ( Read more... )

My econ problem set just took ten minutes. Either the thing was ridiculously easy, or I'm just not getting something about Nash equilibria. I suspect the latter.

Now, this was the first day of classes, and we didn't go very far. So this proof we were assigned is probably supposed ot be fairly short. Why is mine some sort of bastardized combination of vaguely remembered high school geometry and vector addition and exactly a page long? I think maybe I should've reviewed more.

To clarify quickly, I'm not going to take five classes. We have a two week "shopping period" here, so I can look at the classes and decide. The fact that I don't have to make the decision now doesn't prevent me from angsting about it, however. Also, it's amazing how much better things look at 10 at night rather than five in the morning.

I would seem to have arrived in Providence.

Lester Lipkind died last night. The man was an institution around here, and it's really a very sad thing to see him go. Funeral's going to be at 11:30 this morning.