As a brief distraction from my homework: William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be the greatest 20th century poet of the English language. I find it humorous, then, that during one of the last letters he wrote, after receiving an operation (at age 69) to increase sexual potency, he told his friend that I […]
Author: Mark Egge
Excited for Firefox 1.0
Firefox 1.0 was released today. Mozilla.org is completely down, which doesn’t surprise me in the least. I downloaded my copy from http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/ For those of you still using Internet Explorer, Firefox offers a host of features which leaves Internet Explorer feeling bloated and limited. In addition to tabbed browsing (which, although it took some time […]
It’s 1:14AM. Ben’s making pasta. I’m avoiding homework. Needless to say, it’s Monday morning.
As I write this the Northern Lights illuminate the Bozeman sky. Awesome fails as an adequate descriptor of their overwhelming immensity and splendor. The way that they pulse and grow and flash and move– film could never do justice and I lack the words to describe. It’s been a goal of mine to see the […]
Mystified.
Yeah. So the egg in the upper left hand portion of my page navigation? It’s blue now. How ’bout that. You’re probably wondering why. I am too…(not that I mind it being blue– it makes a subtle suggestion of the up-coming Blog! 3.0, but I’m a little concerned by the fact that, to my recollection, […]
Pleased
What a pleasant day it’s been! I was awakened this morning by Amy, telling me it was time to get up for the Quads Academic Pentathalon. I drug myself out of bed, grabbed a pop-tart and a shirt, and wandered off to join my Pentathlon group. We cleaned some house during the prelims. We had […]