I’m free (sort of) from the tyrrany (not really) of Tri-Met! I picked up my bike today, and it is lovely, lovely, lovely. There is so much technology in this thing, it’ll take me… gosh, at least a week to get tired of it. (=
Speaking of technology, I’d post a picture, but [...]
The past day and a half or so have been rather… odd around Chez Livingston-Gray. Friday afternoon, while I was on the phone with my dad, Her Fabulousness got offered a new job! It’s 3.1 miles from our house (she could walk it in under an hour), 20% more money than she’d been [...]
This AP wire story has so many lovely points for discussion, I don’t even know where to begin: ‘Star Trek’ Actor George Takei Comes Out.
So I won’t, except to say RIGHT ON. And that I hadn’t known that he lived in a US internment camp from the ages of 4 to 8. [...]
We can only dream that someday, when our condition is more widely understood, when perhaps an Introverts’ Rights movement has blossomed and borne fruit, it will not be impolite to say “I’m an introvert. You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush.”
- from Caring for Your Introvert (link via tragerstreit)
While I was standing on our front porch admiring the fabulous sunset this evening, a guy drove by in a flashy little red Miata with the top down and the stereo up loud, blaring… Fleetwood Mac.
Just called the bike shop — they took my bike out of its box this afternoon, and have already had several comments about the paint job. Apparently it’s nice or something. (= Hopefully I’ll have a bike in a few days! Woohoo!
This post title was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the headline: U.S. Military Death Toll Hits 1,999.
Apologies not only to Prince, but also to the members of our military who have died for… well… not much that I can tell, really. Mostly just because GWB wanted them to, [...]
This week’s $340 million Powerball jackpot (which went to someone in Oregon, the first time someone in Oregon won since 1999 — did you know 27 states offer this game?), and the press it received, got me thinking a bit more about the odds involved. My old friend Travis called the lottery “a tax [...]
This week’s calculus homework includes a rather unusual task: “Meditate on the meaning of integration. Feel it’s subtlety infuse your being. Ohhhhm.”
No more Tazo for Tom.
Those not interested in recumbents, just skip this. (=
I went bike shopping at the coolest shop in town last Saturday. I expected it to be rather an all-day production. I’d already ridden the Burley Django and liked it quite a bit, and figured that’s what I would wind up buying. (It’s [...]
More from the wacky church sign department:
Out riding fawnapril’s bike the other day, I took a quick shortcut through the parking lot of a church. Its sign read, “BLESSED ARE THE FLEXIBLE / FOR THEY WILL NOT BE BENT OUT OF SHAPE.” One of the only cars in the parking lot had one [...]
It is a good thing that this application I wrote at the beginning of this year is currently pissing me off — it means I’ve learned a lot since then.
Last night, I had a small fragment of dream that involved being in a museum and wandering into a room in which, quite unexpectedly, Christopher Walken tried to engage me in a pre-scripted conversation about Hawaii that was part of that room’s display:
Christopher Walken: “Have you ever been to Hawaii?”
Me: “Uh, no.”
Christopher Walken: [...]
I mentioned my science fiction class in a previous post or two. This is actually the *second* time I’ve taken a science fiction course for college credit. Last fall I had “The Literature of Science Fiction” for humanities credit; this time around I’ve got “Science Through Science Fiction,” which is actually offered either [...]
d20 spiral necklace, or as an acquaintance of mine would say when someone asked him why he was wearing a d10 around his neck, “This is my amulet of gamer detection. And it just worked.”
Well, after quite a few losses, Justin finally beat me at online Scrabble. By, um, a very lot.
So Apple now has a video iPod. Since one of my primary reasons for having an iPod is because I get motion sickness if I try to read on the bus, this is not exactly a Must-Have Feature. Still, it’s interesting to see Moore’s Law march on, though I wonder who’s going to [...]
12:15 am: finish essay, come to bed.
1:30 am-ish: finally fall asleep.
6:32 am: wake up.
6:45 am: alarm goes off.
6:55 am: get out of bed, eat, shower, etc.
7:55-8:00 am: iron interview jacket for fawnapril.
8:12 am: miss bus.
8:25 am: catch next bus.
9:05 am - 10:05 am: calculus class.
10:15 am - 11:15 am: furiously attempt to do statistics homework, [...]
I can’t believe I managed not to run across this in the ten years they were writing this stuff, but: Death Star vs. the Enterprise. Yowza.
(Now to finish the paper I’m writing for my Science Through Science Fiction class, which I’m taking, I kid you not, for upper-division physics credit.)
Got an insurance check for the damage to the recumbent, settled for the injury (check forthcoming), and sold my wedgie upright bike. All told, I should have just about enough to buy a new recumbent (or, if I can find a really comfortable saddle, get a new upright and make another dent in my [...]