Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
This evening, leaving the office way too late, I saw a bunch of corporate Canadian geese in a neat business casual outfit (it must have been “bring your chicks to work” day). I have pictures to prove that it was not just workaholic delirium. Going to work Done for today… …time to go home...
Andrew coined the new Technorati tag “metafatigue” and it seems to fit pretty well with a couple of my previous post, so I will adopt it if he doesn’t mind (I assume that the idea behind Technorati tags is to spread them through blogspace like a well adapted species). By the way, this is...
In my never-ending quest for efficiency and productivity, today I found myself tinkering with Yahoo’s calendar and to-dos. I noticed that Yahoo remembers calendar preferences that I set the first time I used it. I started to get sentimental. I have had my site on Geocities for more than 5 years and my Yahoo...
Mike Posner was in Philadelphia for few days for a conference, so we had the chance to spend a few hours with him. Diego, Brent, Carmen, and I (Scott was flying to Denver that afternoon) gathered in Center City, talked about science, gossiped about our old University of Oregon friends, and ate at the...
It’s been a little less than 2 months since I’ve bought my domain, found a web host, downloaded WordPress, started a blog. Every day, I read blog feeds on Bloglines, including Boingboing whose 68,000 posts a day I browse religiously. I copywrited my blog with Creative Commons, opened an account with Flickr, and I...
Summer night. The yard shines with fireflies. It was a relaxing week-end like I haven’t spent in a long time. Guilt over mid-year appraisals yet to finish. Just remember to breathe....