Archive for December, 2010
Presents
Image via Wikipedia I usually get quite a lot of presents this time of year since my birthday and Christmas fall just a few days apart. Now that I’ve gotten clever about it and put my wishlist online, I usually even get presents I want. I love getting presents and I wouldn’t turn one down […]
Before
Water/Zero After the garden, the man and woman squatted in a field of thorns. See, they had become like us, although they didn’t know it yet, knowing good and evil, which meant also a whole bestiary of pain, which was new to them, and so in the infancy of their wanting thirst and hunger, famine […]
Installing Ubuntu on a new (to me) laptop
My wonderful aunt sent me a Dell Inspiron 9200 she bought years and years ago. It’s not new and it’s not very fast, but it has several advantages over the macbook I got in 2006 that is now held together with tape, courtesy of the TSA. It is not held together with tape. Tripping over […]
What I’ve Noticed
Climate change sucks. But telling you that makes you less likely to fix the problem. It’s not surprising that politicians fail to appreciate art, but it is disappointing that museums are caving to the narrow minded idiots. Some people think sabbaticals are year long vacations. That isn’t true, and cutting them can cause universities to […]
Some rituals are nearly universal
Image via Wikipedia At night he gathered around the men’s circle in the long house, taking coca and tobacco, watching and listening as the voices became more and more animated. The talk was less conversation than ritual discourse. Reviewing the important events of the day or anticipating future problems, the capitán would begin a long […]
Conspiracy of low grad student pay
My roommate, a graduate student, on the abysmal pay of grad students: One of the reasons grad students are paid like shit is because they need to hate their lives enough to get the hell out of here.
Tweeple & Some Exciting News (For Me, Not You)
I had grand plans of posting lots of substantial, thought provoking posts this week. But then one of the people I want to work with for grad school emailed me back and wants to meet via Skype (yay tech savvy potential advisors!) to talk about potential projects. So, instead of writing blog posts that are […]