January 2008
40 posts
awesome!
i asked michael to make some sketches of water, boats & octopuses for me & he delivered with abandon. so, we have a fresh, aquatic unclegrandpa… brothers are the best! thanks, m!
Maybe we couldn’t be so easily convinced to wage unnecessary wars if people cared as much about soldiers and foreign civilians as they do about actors. — marco
if you have spare money, you should be looking to...
today's word
zeugma |ˈzoōgmə| noun a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week) …. love the usage example.
for some reason i really like coffee stains on...
sometimes i even keep papers i don’t need anymore, just because i particularly like the stains.
i just found this in a directory with a lot of...
the electricity is back on… and! i got in my first fight in italian with some surly old shoppe owners. total jerks. no one go to the tobaccoist on via corso in chieti alta, they’re numbskulls & liars.
i really like the idea of people dressing fashionably in antarctica.
Watchvoronoi diagrams are one of my favorite computational geometry structures. for a given subset of points in a space, a cell is defined for each point so that it contains all the points in the embedded space which are closest to the point in the subset. blah! it’s much more intuitive than that… wikipedia.
new feature: vote!
new drink = a pap smir it’s either : dad’s rootbeer and smirnoff ice, or smirnoff ice with a drop of marachino cherry juice you decide
a prime specimen
Is there a biological equivalent of prime numbers? If idealized, archetypal species are the integers, then, the barest genome which will suffice to generate a species? (I don’t mean examples of prime numbers occurring in nature. For that, there’s the 13 & 17 year life-cycles of cicadas which are speculatively thought to have evolved to defend against predation. Though appealing;...
what books would you take to a zombie-infested...
i watched the (horrible) new will smith movie - i am legend - this weekend and, though the movie was a disappointment, found myself wondering… what is the role of culture in a post-apocalyptic world? i love consuming culture and i wonder - if it’s clear that you’ll never contribute anything to culture (because the world has ended) is there still joy to be gained from...
cities i slept in last year
cannes/monte carlo, france (new year’s eve 06) bologna rome florence cinque terra milan bellagio verona venice chieti (lived) l’aquilla sienna pisa genoa como zurich basel (easter) amsterdam chicago (new year’s eve 07) indianapolis stl santo stefano gerona glasgow north berwick forth william isle of skye greve istanbul marmara london dover calaise antwerp
so, that happened
while i was home for the holidays, i forgot (or, really, knowingly neglected) to provide for my electrical bill. so… my bold experiment confirmed that the italian energy company - enel - will apparently shut off your service, much like their american regional counterparts, if you fail to pay them. i was actually slightly surprised when i came home on thursday and my lights were still...
Watchnew russian circles! i’m super pumped. perfect music for driving across montana.
francesco: oh man! how was nevada?
me: it was fantastic. it snowed a lot. very enjoyable. my snowboard was stolen.
francesco: ah! well, you have to buy a new one. you know what they say about falling off horses.
me: yea, i'm thinking about just pretending it was a really expensive rental.
invention of the month:
animated tattoos
invention of the week:
choose-your-own-adventure books on tape
