Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the General category.
Creative procrastination
Filed in General,Mrs. Bella Bang,Technical, 10th July, 2010, 2:22 CETI was taking Mrs. Bang for a walk last night, at 2am or so, and mulling over my ideas for a dauntingly large new feature I want to add to my music theory site. One idea spun from another, and I started thinking about mad libs — you know, the game where you fill in [...]
Eye surgery
Filed in General, 9th March, 2010, 15:22 CETThank you to all of the friends, and friends of friends, and contacts of friends of friends (!) who shared their advice, thoughts, warm wishes and professional opinions with me when I was deciding how to proceed with the slipped IOL (artificial lens) in my right eye. I’m documenting discussions I had with my ophthalmologist [...]
Truly moving… unforgettable.
Filed in General, 16th September, 2009, 14:31 CETSo.. I have some lyrics that popped into my head while I was driving. Best performed a capella, with deep feeling. I’d make a video to go with this but wait what the hell am I thinking I have no spare time. One day I’ll be independently wealthy and I will do silly things all [...]
Schlump around
Filed in General, 25th February, 2008, 12:36 CETEver open your eyes in the morning and just know, for certain, that no good will come out of the day? That you have things to do, but you are going to muddle through your standard procrastinations and find yourself still schlumping around when you notice with confused horror that the sun has already set [...]
Curing hiccups
Filed in General, 10th February, 2008, 0:11 CETI was googling the word “intractable”, just to make sure I wasn’t misusing it too egregiously in the post I just put up… and right there, the fifth result on the very first page, was a hiccup cure. Doesn’t everyone who’s ever had the hiccups want to know a cure? And this is not just [...]
The data (u|dys)topia
Filed in General,Technical, 9th February, 2008, 23:54 CETTake one simple conversation with a neighbor, add a few late night walks in the dark, and it develops into a complete utopian/dystopian vision of the not-so-distant future. First, the conversation: we were talking about everyday marital strife, and she mentioned how her husband wants to redo the roof himself — it’s a relatively straightforward [...]
On Anagrams & Presidents
Filed in General,Political, 22nd January, 2008, 3:07 CETI remember finding the Internet Anagram Server, some years ago, and (of course) plugging in my own name to check all the possibilities. It’s a good one for anagrams: He no brawl Whale-born Labor hewn Bean whorl No herb law! Blah owner Whole bran Blew a horn Her own lab Ban Howler Brawn hole (whoa, [...]
