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On Friday, weather.com reported that the chance of rain on this coming Saturday — a day of no small importance to me — is 0%. Now that’s a bold statement, of course, but a reasonable interpretation of it is: “There … Continue reading →

Damn. There’s so much beauty in music it’s absurd. What trick of evolution allows it this level of emotional resonance?

When I was in high school, someone gave me a collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. Of course, all of his classics (“The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, etc.) were present, but at … Continue reading →

How do dogs recognize each other?You know what I’m talking about: dogs will ignore other species, but bark at and interact with each other. Now that doesn’t sound like an impressive recognition task, but consider that dogs have been bred … Continue reading →

I finally finished grad school. I’m now officially a Ph.D., though as in many things it’s pretty clear that the journey was more important than the destination. A (Ph.D.) friend of mine put it, roughly, this way: When you get … Continue reading →

A few years ago I saw an Idlewild show in SF. The local opening band was called Why? and put on an incredible show. I picked up their album Elephant Eyelash (amazing lyrics), and investigated some other artists on their … Continue reading →

I’ve started a pretty bizarre project this year: to listen to all the music I own in alphabetical order (by artist and then by album name). Yes, that’s 14,245 tracks, nearly a thousand hours of music, from …And You Will … Continue reading →

I have a clear favorite (in terms of artistic quality, not content). See if you can guess which one it is!

You might have heard about this from me already, but if not, here’s my latest project with my friend Arlo: (click on the image to go to the site) It’s a way to browse through items via visual similarity. Right … Continue reading →

Well, I’ve warmed up a little to the SD850 IS. Here are some of my favorite pictures from this last year. The selection clearly shows my penchant for spiders and macro shots of flowers will cool backgrounds. I’ll have to … Continue reading →