DANGER DUE TO: Hopscotch

Don't listen to the giraffe. It's a trap. Also: don't wait even a few days after moving to get health insurance.  Even children's games can lead to expensive ambulance rides.

Catching Up

Went to Roast (hat tip: AMT) to catch up with Chris + Olivia now that they're back in town. The cafe is palatial and just about as fancy as the braising on this green-tea latte.

A Mare Usque Ad Mare

It is GO TIME.

I Need some Asprin and Juice

I just digitized the only extant live recording (and maybe the only recording of any kind) of my high-school band, Palo Alto. The recording quality is shit. It sounds like the band is occasionally closes into an airtight plastic bucket for about 30 seconds at a time. I blame the ravages of time rather than the sound engineer, who also happens to have made the print that you can see in the background.

Tryin'a make an iron-clad leave to yourself from a three-rail billiard shot

We have to go and watch this. It is the best musical of the 20th century. Here is how you can prove this: Have someone else name a musical that they think is better, then reply "Barbershop Quartet." QED

Libraries Rock!

This is a picture of how the EPL has the closing theme from Monty Python's Flying Circus as their closing theme.

Feelin' hoopy

I spilled my tea all over the fancy electronic desk I teach from, right in front of the international law professor I had just met who teaches after me. Thank goodness for Douglas Adams

A Real Holiday

I think watching movies on the living-room sofa-bed is a great way to celebrate Hangover Day.

Now if only I had an archaic power adapter

I was too hasty. The Bench of Giving does have lots of nothing on it, but it also sometimes has laptops.

Just Like Old Times

Blue Screen of Death!  It's you!  It's been so long!  What was it last, Windows 98?

Ffffffail?

Ok listen, amplifier circuit, I could understand when you didn't make any noise at all, but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to accidentally pick up radio signals.  

Progress

So I finally finished my GP2 draft a week ago, and with these 12 de-looped lines of R code I'm almost caught up to this past February, school-wise.  Not to mention being caught up to today, blogwise.

Scenes From a Family

Simon puts his real-life drumming experience to good use while Matt sings.

Andrew tries to avoid photo evidence that he has ever in his life played Rock Band.

Simon, who hosts a nature show on a South African wildlife television channel, uses a gift his fans sent him to hide from Papparazzi.

Occupation

It turns out Jackie wasn't content to just build her own room in our house - she had to build the rest of us out of it too.

Whee!

I love skating. You can drag me around an over-sized mall shopping for every member of your family ever born and some that aren't, you can ask me which gift your friend I've never met is likely to prefer, you can even put your finger right in the middle of my blog picture if you want, as long as I get to go skating at the end of the day.

An Idea!

Hooray! And only two-and-a-half months late. Oh well, that beats my last idea being 30 years late.