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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
vancouver
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10:32p
Looking for: tickets to The XX
I was silly & slept on getting tickets to The XX's upcoming show at the Commodore (April 13th). If anybody has 2 tickets that they're looking to get rid of (or if you know anybody else that does), please let me know! I'll pay above face value. I'm so bummed that it's sold out.
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choiceful
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9:43p
four year old wisdom
Life is going pretty well. Many weekends in Palm Springs to visit Mom in my future, which is a good thing.
As discussed prior, my diet went straight out the window after the accident, and I haven't quite caught up with it yet. Tonight Tovar cracked me up. Patri had bought a box of donuts, and I'd only set out to eat one, but since there was a whole box there, I started getting into a second one.
Tovar started to cry and said "No Mama, if you eat too many deserts you're going to grow big and wide!!" Patri has been teaching him the difference between growing big and wide, and big and tall and how the two work. So now I'm taking dieting advice from my four year old, lol ;) I put the donut down after he said that.
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dachte
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11:30p
Full Pockets, Empty Hands
Yesterday: Had an elaborate deadpan fictionalised version of this, but decided it was too corny to do. ( Read more... ) Leaving on monday for a work-conference at Duke University. In preparing, I've found that Durham is an incredibly food-loving town, and that they suffer from uncreative street names. ( Read more... )
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tdj
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9:04p
Running the numbers on colleges
To me, this graph basically says "the second half of your career will either interesting or in another industry".
I suspect that we have better health care and nutrition to thank for some of the change, though I wouldn't be shocked to find evidence to the contrary, and I'm certain a significant portion is just plain inflation of grades. The authors note that the inflation isn't seen in community colleges, to which I respond: community colleges respond to incentives. Failing a class usually means that a student takes it (and pays for it) again, while universities have a vested interest in getting people out in ~4 years.
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gustavolacerda
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8:59p
treadmill desk success
I now have a treadmill desk. The plank is at a perfect height, 10cm below my navel, so typing is very comfortable.
So I've been standing most of the day. I'm planning to walk more when my foot is better. When I get tired enough, I put a chair on the treadmill, but it's too low to be comfortable. NEXT STEP: get the chair to roll away gracefully when I start the treadmill.
Besides setting up the treadmill and the plank (sanded-down plywood, custom cut to 95cm x 31cm), I raised the external monitor to eye level (thanks YellowPages!), and put paper around a lamp that was too close to the monitor, blinding me. Moved several peripherals and cables. Created a pocket on the left heart-rate-handle using duct tape.
NYTimes - Stand up while you read this "Your chair is your enemy"
Seth Roberts on exercise
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11:32p
- fixed a misplaced wall in an earlier area
- made one new area
also i livestreamed sd today, showing a few people (eva, podunkian, etc.) the game. you can watch those here:
http://www.livestream.com/rinkuhero
the first half has no sound, the second half has me talking in a mic in a one-way conversation with the people in a chatroom, so it'll make no sense.
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2:07a
QuietComfort 15 Headphones
http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2010/03/14/quietcomfort-15-headphones/ The QuietComfort 15 headphones ($300) are Bose’s newest noise-cancelling headphones. I had two of an earlier model, the QC 2, because when they broke I couldn’t bear to be without one for two weeks. I used them while walking on my treadmill and riding the subway. BART is noisy.
The model numbers went 1, 2, 3, 15. And, yeah, the QC 15 is much better than the QC 2 and QC 3, which were about the same. The first time I wore them on BART, when I got out of the subway I noticed I didn’t feel exhausted, the way I usually did after a subway ride. I felt normal. The noise had been exhausting.
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(comment on this) Sunday, March 14th, 2010
tdj
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8:06p
Authors in their natural habitat
Kyle and I will be continuing the How to Defeat Your Own Clone tour in April at:
- The Science Fiction vs. Science Fact panel at Wondercon (Friday April 2nd at 4:30PM)
- The Booksmith on Haight (Wednesday April 7th at 7:30PM)
Did you know that a signature on your book can increase its eBay value by as much as three percent? Do the math, people.
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9:43p
Telephone
This has been my favorite song of 2010 so far... Telephone by Lady Gaga. I also think it is her best (and 2009 was a year where about half of the new songs I liked all turned out to be hers so that's saying a lot! The other half generally turned out to be the Black Eyed Peas). Although the song has been out for months, the video for Telephone just came out. Quenton Tarantino personally loaned her the Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill, so she and Beyonce could ride away in it at the end. I find it a little annoying that the music stops for so long in places to move the plot forward, but overall I think the video deserves two thumbs up:
(via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mzflux)
According to Fox News, it has already been banned by MTV and will soon be banned by other networks. I guess if MTV bans something, there is no chance it could make it onto Al Jazeera?
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10:10p
3-21-09
I look around and there’s a lot of appreciable detail... on the ashtray outside, for example, and a couple was sitting out here, and he was on the phone but reaching across the table to touch the sleeve of her light-medium gray wool coat, and they were symmetrical like when swans face each other and make a heart, and she wore a lime-green scarf and hat that didn’t quite match in color but were good together.
and over there is a girl wearing a sweater that’s the color of the “denim” blue that I made that one sweater out of, and the color looks so perfect that I want to recreate what she’s wearing, even though I wouldn’t wear that, specifically, but it’s just perfect in its piece of existence that it’s in, the space, time, and circumstances.
it’s kind of like, “Well, that’s great, but....”
and it feels real, really real today....
but I think I’m being taken for a ride, all the time.
This is my third day of intense happiness with a footnote of suspicion that I think, not feel.
explain?
what I read today about brain hemispheres...
and what I thought the other day when I was on the bus, and looking out the window, and every brick I saw was uniquely beautiful and full of nuance and I was picturing, in graphic novel form, the difference between those bad days and these color-saturated intense good days, buildings in outline vs very very detailed....
the left brain is where happiness is, apparently, and also where detail is.
why would the center that processes emotions be more unhappy?
it’s kind of like how the amygdala is an emotional center, but it processes FEAR.
so.... where does love, if we’re going to refer to a semi-bogus dichotomy as featured in donnie darko, come from?
the left brain???
that would mean that love is a symbol manipulation. or likely akin to one.
which MAKES SENSE, because when we love, we love an abstraction.
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7:04p
weekend update
Friday: The day of birth, in which I took the day off and got a massage and manicure. The boy and I postponed plans for a nicer dinner, instead opting for a low-key visit to the Los Altos Grill.
Saturday: We slept in (a bit), walked down to the local bagel shop to share bagels and the paper. I convinced the boy that he needed a massage at least as much as I had needed it, so got him to book himself in for that afternoon. We napped. While the boy was out having his massage, I made tomato sauce (three ingredients, and surprisingly good for it) and pasta and spicy cheese straws (I loved them, the boy is less enamoured).
Sunday: Pancakes for breakfast, and then errands. When we got home, I made cherry-almond mini-muffins and let the Killers' live DVD play in the background. Then we realised that we haven't changed all of our clocks for the time change, so the plan of roasting a chicken for dinner was out. Oops.
Week in preview: I've just started a big research project that will have me visiting four cities over the next 6 weeks or so, so this might be my last full week in the office for awhile. The boy has a business trip, so he'll be gone Tuesday through Thursday.
current mood:  tired
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