Humans are odd.

I've never gone hunting, and not in favor of humans wiping out species. I mean, obviously. My entire career I'm working toward involves trying to rejigger science and technology to work in partnership, or at least not against, nature.

And yet, when I was involved in a discussion about the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions today ( Read more... )

Okay, since I'm not at my home computer too much any more, I've been running most of my stuff off a suite of Firefox, Thunderbird, etc on a thumb drive. I have GAIM, but I can't get it to copy my settings from my home version, and I'd like to be able to be on IM and see the people there. Anybody know how to do that?

I'm as old as Paul McCartney was when the Beatles put out their last album.

I haven't written much about my girlfriend here. Part of that has been some of the general lack of blogging here, because of life being generally busy and not always near a computer. And part of that is because, despite having a public blog on the Internet, read by tens of people, I tend to be a fairly quiet and private person. At least sort of ( Read more... )

Okay, many many things to post about. I expect today will be at least a three post day. First, life and holidays ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting much. Busy with school, looking at colleges for transfer, keeping my grades up, making sure I have everything right for next semester and graduation and transfers. Also sort of having a life, so a short update ( Read more... )

I should never have gotten curious and created a Pandora station for DragonForce.

I've been rocking out to gloriously ridiculous metal for hours now.

I wish I'd been this excited about looking at colleges and going to college a decade ago, when I was doing it the first time.

But then I didn't know what I wanted, and hadn't found something I was excited about that I thought could make a difference.

I think one of the traits that helps define me is I think things can be better. Our best days don't have to be behind us, they're ahead of us. Not just individually, but as a world. Instead of looking back to the idealized past, and seeing how things have just been downhill since whatever perfect Golden Age, the Golden Age is an idea, for the ( Read more... )

I know my girlfriend will disagree with this ( Read more... )