Monthly Archives: April 2005

“I am not a poet, only a very accurate recorder.” – Lolita (Vladamir Nabokov)

WHOO!! Duluth, here I come! I’ll be back Sunday. Now, I just need to find someone to give me a ride. Hmm.

I just spent the last two hours with Jack Horner (see: Jurassic Park, T-Rex soft tissue, etc.). He’s a Texts & Critics fellow (William is one of his students), and tonight he gave a presentation to the T&C classes as … Continue reading →

Useful tip #1: 2/3rds of a cup of water is almost exactly equal to 3.5 shots of water (which is the exact amount of water needed for one packet of Easy-Mac). Useful tip #2: When making Easy-Mac, it is far … Continue reading →

and that’s just it– you reach the point where you have nothing left to give. your eyes are pink and your heart is hollow, and the rain pours down inside and out… and that’s when the piano holds me. the … Continue reading →

Ya win some and ya lose some. Right now, I seem to be on the losing end of things. Daylight Savings time… yeah. How ’bout that. I guess there was a reason why, as I set my alarm last night, … Continue reading →

Oh, and I think I have pink-eye again. I can’t be sure, but my eyes are very very… pink. Especially the left one. Odd– that’s the eye it started in last time, too. Ug.

Good heavens, this book is making me upset. It’s so damned presumptuous and arrogant. Daniel Quinn (could that be a pseudo name for Dan Brown, I wonder?) has laid no groundwork or foundation for his audacious claims (that the journey … Continue reading →

I’ve been increasingly breaking more and more pieces of my blog. Rather than fixing it, I decided that I would say the heck with it and move on to the new version of the source code. So things are ugly. … Continue reading →

This afternoon was such a waste. I went to work with Ishmael intending to read for four hours, and ended up reading blogs for… four hours. Well, almost: I also pushed in a bunch of chairs and changed three clocks. … Continue reading →