Gentle readers,

I have moved my blog to mindlace.net where, in all likelyhood, it will reside for the rest of ever. My reasons for moving to WordPress:

• I am paying good money to have a whole machine on the internet.
• I hate the way lj handles formatting. I want markdown or one of its variants.
• I can't figure out LJ's templating mechanism, and I want ( Read more... )

So as a follow up on my little claymation snake, here's a snake capturing and then swallowing another snake, and subsequently regurgitating it.

so, in a programming language, the first thing you write is a "hello world".... well, here is my hello world clay animation. Also, a snake.

this image is the singularly most effective political statement I have seen in a long, long time.

For the last few weeks I've been particularly self-conscious. I feel like almost every interaction I end up in comes off awkward or poorly. The last two times I went out in public I felt this to the point of being seriously uncomfortable with the situation and with my interactions with people ( Read more... )

I'm taking precalculus to prepare me for the two math classes required if I want to take most engineering courses - MTH 141 & 142 (calculus and analytical geometry I and II). Right now it's kicking my ass - I'm getting a low B, and after this second test, well, if I'm lucky I'm maintaining that ( Read more... )

I've been wanting a new bike ever since my last one got stolen post-playa. Dahon makes folding bicycles for around the same price most places charge for non-folders. Definitely where my next biking-dollar investment will go.

I am reading an article from thirdspace called self-esteem theory and management. The rest of thirdspace looks interesting.


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I moved today, and that is good, i suppose, but I'm too tired to feel it.
Here are some photos of the apartment. They don't really do it justice; I'll try again tomorrow ( Read more... )

The other night, Vika said to me that the system is a way of selling you on uncertainty. Our government preaches fear daily. Corporations expend exraordinary sums to figure out how to best inform you of an inadequacy you never knew you had, then pitch you the solution in the same breath. When Anthony Giddens talked about this in 1999 he used the ( Read more... )