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Bookmans is back!
My favorite bookstore & cafe is finally open again. The roof collapsed and the whole store flooded in a big snowstorm last winter and they had to completely rebuild. I do all my best writing there, and am thrilled it’s open now – just in time for grad school apps.
Lunchtime reading
You know a paper [pdf] is going to be good when it starts like this: The literature is replete with models and ideas about the maintenance of species diversity. This review is about making sense of them. There are many commonalities in these models and ideas. The ones that could work, that is, the ones […]
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 […]