New phone
Well, I feel like I’m officially in the future, now that I have a smartphone. I got the Droid, a bit of nice Motorola hardware running Google’s nice open-source OS Android, and carried by the icktastic Verizon. So it goes.
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Wiring
I spent much of today rewiring the house (with my dad’s assistance, or, more accurately, I was assisting him). Lots of drilling, crawling in the basement, getting dusty, trying not to inhale fiberglass insulation. I found it quite fun, but it’s not a usual thing for me, which I suppose makes a difference. But there …
Old School Ties
I am here at Swarthmore, doing some work for Professor K. David Harrison. It’s fun work, and going well—which is always profoundly satisfying when dealing with programming—but that’s not quite what I’m thinking about. More interesting to me is that this is the first time I’ve been back on campus not explicitly for a social …
Skulls Unlimited
I’ve just rediscovered an old love: Skulls Unlimited. It’s still fantastic. We used to get their catalog, when I was little. It was the best thing ever.
Omens
Yesterday: thirteen vultures circling above us, as we stood on a hilltop overlooking the river, watching the trees turn golden. At our feet, a dead snake with its head crushed. On the way home, a fox.
Lemonade
Sometimes, life causes you to make it. In this case, no Toronto/Montreal trip. I was in a car accident yesterday. I wasn’t driving, no one’s hurt. The car lost the front driver’s side wheel. That’s what you get when an SUV veers into your lane, and clips you. And the SUV had only a scratch. …
Canada
I’ll be in Montreal in about a week. This will be the tail-end of a trip which will include seeing friends in Toronto beforehand, and I know what to do in Toronto, but Montreal is all unknown to me. What should I do there? Let me know what’s cool in Montreal. In other news, vests. …
Dance
I went contra dancing last night, for the first time in too long. Advantages to dancing at this altitude include the fact that my lungs were not burning after one dance. I was also dancing a bit more sedately than I tended to in Boulder, though, as I forgot my shoes, and barefoot dancing, while …
Poison Ivy
I got my first case of poison ivy ever the other day. It’s been quite interesting; it’s all over my leg, due to my not realizing that there was a bit of P.I. leaf stuck in my pants leg for a lot of the day. It’s a very mild reaction, just small and rash-like, and …
Counterbalance
I am going far in the other direction, into activity almost more than thought. It’s refreshing to be back east, to be home, to see familiar locations with new eyes. I’ve been making progress on my primary project (grad school applications), and my quaternary project (figuring out what to do with all my stuff, particularly …