ChapterZero

I’m within of having a new roommate, so naturally I’m planning what I’ll do with the extra $625/month I’ll be saving. Guffaw. The first two months are spoken for already— it’s past time for new glasses, and I haven’t paid off my Caltech dining account in several months—, then I’ll start saving up to [...]

Sade is one of those artists I heard about constantly growing up, (you know how black people get about their Saw-day) so it’s kind of odd that I just started listening to her for real last week– growing up, of course I was familiar with “The Sweetest Taboo” and “Smooth Operator”, but I couldn’t say [...]

It looks like I might soon have some spending money. I haven’t gone on a fiction buying spree in a while. Any suggestions? I’m going to pre-order The Desert Spear, because Warded Man was too awesome for me to miss out on the sequel, but other than that, it’s up in the wind. I’ve been [...]

I gave two talks on Friday. The first was a rehash of the talk I gave at the ACM tea; this time I gave it at a lunch meeting for EE grad students. It was horrible: the students looked like I poleaxed them and they were waiting for their throats to be cut. It wasn’t [...]

I’ve had “Distance & Time” and “Sort of Revolution” looping in my mp3 player for the last two weeks, so I thought I’d share the wealth. I couldn’t decide between the following songs. They’re all slices of heaven.

Possibly relevant posts:

release the stars? (5/22/2007)
Had a Bad Day Again (3/24/2002)
ID3 and audio fingerprinting (7/31/2007)

I’ve often been asked how I feel about death. (Because, as you know, if you don’t believe in an afterlife, then you must be terrified to die). A couple days ago, I was listening to Poses and reencountered this gem, “In a Graveyard”. I love the piano, but this is one of his songs that [...]

I watched half of the premiere for Spartacus: Blood and Sand last night. I didn’t get any further because I’m just not that into it: the storyline is not at all original— to be fair, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect the show to shine until the stage has been set for political machinations— [...]

Hashes are one of my favorite types of meal to make; they’re incredibly versatile. I made one today to use up the remnants of a rather bland chicken I roasted earlier in the week. Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients:

1/3 a roasted or baked chicken, shredded
turkey pastrami, finely cubed (about 1/2 as much as the chicken) [...]

I came across this thread on men wearing short shorts a while back, left a comment, and moved on with my busy life. Pretty much the way I deal with any thread populated with commenters who unabashedly elevate their unexamined opinions, picked up through cultural osmosis of the worse kind (is there any other kind?), [...]