Month: October 2006

today:2:10am – bed6:00am – shower6:30am – reading8:30am – on-campus. library –> work11:00am – class12:45pm – econ mid-term2:00pm – class3:00pm – work12:00am – off-campus –> social? objectives:-submit uh400 questions-econ re-cram session-finish 100 pages: Amusing Ourselves to Death, 90 pages Understanding Popular Culture, 40 pages New Worlds for All-uh400 research-brainstorm hist447 essays tomorrow (projected):2:00am – bed oh, […]

Firefox 2 is now available. Based on my first ten minutes with it, I’m absolutely thrilled. It’s packed with awesome new features– features that I’ve been wanting, such as better RSS handling (I can now add RSS feeds directly to MyYahoo or Google portal with two clicks, rather than a lot of copying and pasting), […]

Catching snowflakes is such a singularly beautiful human endeavor… (Especially when it has just started snowing–) Thick, heavy flakes– that fall with a certain, profound serenity, in a thick and muting deluge… Mmm. To live in Bozeman is such an immense privilege!

Every time I go to the gas station these days, I’m possessed by an unshakeable feeling of being cheaply used. As the gas prices fall precipitously (which, curiously, doesn’t quite make the news, with detailed analysis, quite like the prices going up did), I once again feel the sickening presentiment of shameless profiteering I had […]

Background information on Kennewick Man is available here. — When two men, watching boat races on a lazy July afternoon along the Columbia River, happened upon a set of exposed bones, it’s unlikely that they could have apprehended how important of an archaeological discovery they’d made, or the furor it would cause over the next […]