February 9, 2010

Yep, I’m an Avatard
Great Leonopteryx figurine.

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February 8, 2010

Time
The Real Rules for Time Travelers
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Quanta
Nature's hot green quantum computers revealed
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February 7, 2010

doves
your face is not a memory
your face is what is left when my breath is taken away
time is not the enemy
time is what will bring you back to me
fate does not exist
fate is the excuse love makes when it remembers me
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February 6, 2010

Ha!
If People on the Internet Told the Truth
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Last Words
25 Funny Tombstones
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February 5, 2010

The Dragonfly on My Wall
The dragonfly being the official mascot of Eonwing.

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February 4, 2010

Quote
We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves... Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are.

– Francois de Sales
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February 3, 2010

Neato
Quix — a metabookmarklet, baby
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Merchandise
Time Traveler Essentials Print
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February 2, 2010

Sidetracked
Tuesday I could feel it coming on, and I was hoping it would come to naught. However, on Wednesday I awoke with a definite feeling of having caught a cold. I took some drugs, and couldn’t think straight for the whole day. Unfortunate. But Thursday I did get a little work done, after which I felt somewhat dizzy. Friday and Saturday were better, and I did discover some good stuff those days. Sunday I skipped going to mass, for I did not want to aggravate this condition in any way. I did not really go out of the apartment much at all. But anyway, put out a feeler for trying to get another day job, and I’m going to go over some old code I wrote, look at some material for getting that paying gig I need right now. As usual, things pretty good. Onward.
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February 1, 2010

Games Day #1
First-Person Tetris — disorienting
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Games Day #2
Miami Shark — hilarious
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January 31, 2010

Fogbow
Found on Wikimedia Commons.

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January 30, 2010

loopy
it’s 100 bc in the shade
ancient rome in the air
time says nothing at all
dreams somehow related
i saw myself and laughed
backwards like everyone
the future to happen again
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January 29, 2010

Future Past
2010: Living In the Future — published in 1972
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If You Have an Hour to Kill
The Secret Life of Chaos — from BBC 4, 10 minutes/part
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January 28, 2010

Blessing
I might be a little behind, but I really can’t complain. Last week I went through two cycles of euphoric mania and utter despair, staying up till 6am one of those nights trying to figure out something that couldn’t be figured out. Then Saturday night I blew my own mind in more implications of the Theoretica, if you remember that. And finally, after all this time, on Tuesday, January 26, I believe I finally figured out enough that I had a vision of it ALL: the whole thing, how all the pieces fit together and WORKED. It was another rest of the day just high on that grand vista that had appeared in my mind’s eye. I could now start writing that paper I always imagined I’d write, describing it all. Yeah, baby. Yeah.

Another reason I’m rather chilled out these days is that I decided that whatever I get done, I’m going to get myself a day job. So I’ll probably be boning up on my C# and Java next week, along with sprucing up the old resume. I might not have to go far to get paid, it would seem, because my roommate just became president of his company, and he needs to clean up the mess the last guy left behind. Funny story: he had me talk to the top IT guy on Sunday, and I found out that they are totally lacking in technical infrastructure. The next day, he mentioned that he’d like me to write a little something describing my recommendations. I took about a half hour and chugged out some ideas, and the roommate was so impressed he told me to invoice his company for 2 hours worth of work. Not bad.

As far as things go, the only thing bad (apart from not having a girlfriend, which I’m pretty used to by now) would be that I just don’t get out enough. The only place I ever go is one of the big bookstores where there’s a cafe so I can get coffee and work among the books. My friend Karla and another friend said they’ll be coming for a weekend at the end of February and drag me out of the apartment to some museums. I’ve also been talking (rather hypothetically) with my friend Dough in Korea and seeing what I’d like to do as far as greater travel is concerned. Dunno now, now that I’m almost assuredly going to have a day job again, when I could get away. But who knows what the future brings? Not I, even if I pretend to, sometimes.

In which the curse always ends up being the blessing.
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January 27, 2010

Droolworthy
Star Wars: A New Hope Lego Chess Set
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Science!
Radio pulses from pulsar appear to move faster than light
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