2008’s Works in Progress

This blog regularly goes through dry spells. During many of those, i start posts that never get completed for one reason or another. Today i went through eleven drafts of blogs i started last year and never published and decided that today i was going to publish all of them just as they are (except [...]

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Songs I’m Glad I Know Pt 2: Beings Seeing and Being Seen

Every time wife asks me what i think she should blog about, without fail, i suggest Jethro Tull. She’s yet to. She doesn’t even care for Jethro Tull that much, i just think they’re perpetually an excellent topic. The suggestion got old quite quickly, but i’m hoping to make it into something interesting via pure [...]

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Around and Around, From Trent Reznor to Jakob Bernoulli

I was going to take a picture of my naked shoulder for this post, but decided instead to just describe what’s inked there.  It’s a spiral and some rectangles.  The rectangles all have the property that the ratio of the length of any longer side to the corresponding shorter side is the same as the [...]

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A Few Of My Favorite Things

While I’m no Oprah (I’m not Oprah, am I?), and while I’m also no Maria Von Trapp (seriously, how could you even confuse us - she’s way hotter than I am), I argue that I too am entitled to a few favorite things.  One of these favorite things is The Chicago Cubs.  Go Cubs.
The one [...]

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