February 2008
20 posts
Yellowknife public schools to close Friday as... →
This never, ever, ever happened when I was growing up. I don’t mean the cold. That was normal. But the closures. Does this mean I lose bragging rights?
January 2008
21 posts
Killing myself to live
May I just say that grad school is bruising my soul with its bureaucracy? Yes. Well. Hoop jumping I go, because I know, deep within, that this is the profession that’s made for me. Academia, on the other hand, is not.
Flickr: Photos from hello naomi →
This girl’s cupcakes are INSANELY AWESOME looking, and I would hope tasting, too.
Leonard Cohen, “There Is A War”
whygodwhy » 8:30 AM, waiting for the Ftrain →
and for good measure, kfan’s favs with much better descrips.
Personal (Ftrain.com) →
My favourite thing that Paul Ford has written thus far.
“Two shipping containers’ worth of records created by Iraq’s Baath...”
– Disputed Iraqi Archives Find a Home at the Hoover Institution - Chronicle.com Yeah, let’s just take Iraq’s public records and stick ‘em in the US. THAT won’t cause any problems.
“It runs OS X, but it’s even cheaper than an iPod Shuffle and when you buy...”
– geegaw.com : the sub-notebook market
send.a.message →
via Marmot. the free market strikes again…
Movies @ cacophony.com →
"Sonnet" by Neil Gaiman
I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such, Although I liked a few folk pretty well. Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch, For brave men died and empires rose and fell For love: girls followed boys to foreign lands And men have followed women into Hell. In plays and poems someone understands There’s something makes us more than blood and bone And more than...
Tegan and Sara, “Back In Your Head”