The author of the original Dr. Who theme song, Delia Derbyshire, recently passed away leaving behind hundreds of previously unknown recordings from the 60’s onward. On one track, she notes, “uhh, forget about this, it’s for interest only” and proceeds to drop a track that could very well be in the Warp catalog.
Category Archives: Personal
My year in travel, 2007
In the webloggian tradition, my year in cities and towns for 2007: New York, NY Carmel Valley, CA San Francisco, CA Ithaca, NY Dublin, Ireland Barcelona, Spain Washington, DC Arcata, CA Greenport, NY Laguna Beach, CA Las Cruces, NM Rincón, Puerto Rico One or more nights spent in each place, with italics denoting places IContinue reading “My year in travel, 2007”
Some overdue updates
I have the unhealthy expectation that Facebook = Reality, and sometimes I forget that not everyone has a news feed (or reads theirs every day). In case you missed them, here are some recent events in my life: I got engaged to my lovely girlfriend I started a new job as a research scientist atContinue reading “Some overdue updates”
Five things you didn’t know about me
I don’t usually participate in the “what is your favorite citrus fruit?!?” games, but when Chad calls, I listen. I got tagged Chad, Cody, Ian and some number of intermediaries back to the ur post. 1. I wanted to be an engineer from a very young age. When I was 5 years old, we hadContinue reading “Five things you didn’t know about me”
Goodbye MIT, hello Yahoo!
This message has been a long time in the coming, but thanks to the ubiquity of the internet I’ve been outed. Sometime in late august I turned in a final draft of my thesis which afforded me this wonderful scrap of paper: Since I won’t technically be graduating until next June, this receipt is theContinue reading “Goodbye MIT, hello Yahoo!”
Hiatus
Once again overstated has lain dormant while I sought answers to some of life’s most pondered questions: will I ever graduate? If I do, what the hell comes next? How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop? Which shaker does the salt go in? Are spheresContinue reading “Hiatus”
Happy birthday to me..
It’s my birthday, I can sleep late if I want to. Yay! Happy birthday to me! (I’m really starting to take to this weblog thing)
Exercise the body
I went to the gym today, which is strange because I’m typically a Monday/Wednesday/Friday gym person, and was surprised to see all the same people that I see on my normal schedule. Until now I had expected that all of them, the I-like-coffee-with-my-weights guy, the older-but-fitter-than-thou couple, and the attention-deficit-fitness kid were just like me,Continue reading “Exercise the body”
Back to reality
It’s sad when you’re dealing with the difficulties of life outside your blogdentity to watch your blog go fallow as a result. Someone should invent some technology to cache ideas so that when you’re too sad to even turn on your computer, your blog continues blogging by itself, keeping people interested. Needless to say, I’mContinue reading “Back to reality”
Distributed picture-taking
An experiment in distributed storytelling: while attending South by Southwest, every time I went to take a picture, I was preempted by another, more photo savvy individual. So where’s my photo album? Take a tour with some of my friends: playing kickball, acquiring a “tan” (that’s me way in the back, credit: min jung) firstContinue reading “Distributed picture-taking”
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