Incredible Online Lecture
Alain de Botton, “On Pessimism” http://vimeo.com/10601416 Lots and lots of good stuff here, including a shoutout to my main man Schopenhauer.
A poem I wish I wrote
“Monorhyme for the Shower” by Dick Davis http://books.google.com Lifting her arms to soap her hair Her pretty breasts respond – and there The movement of that buoyant pair Is like a spell to make me swear Twenty odd years have…
A somewhat out-of-the-ordinary weekend
Despite my protestations, it was nice to see the support from my sister and my friends from TP, Stanford, and CRA during the Sunday afternoon show. Thanks, all of you who came. It was quite the week: five hours of…
Soon.
Running low on steam, but it’s almost over, or something. What I really want to do is this double slit experiment with kittens. Or maybe I just want 10^36 kittens. That would be enough kittens to fill a good-sized swimming…
Tomorrow will be fun
And by tomorrow I mean today. And instead of writing this, I probably should be sleeping. Looking forward to: 5.5 hours of rehearsals, 3.5 hours of meetings, doing laundry, finishing ~2 reports, massage (assuming the meetings don’t run way over).…