– Slate’s College Week [http://www.slate.com/id/2130141/]. Ah nostalgia for the good old days. Almost brings a tear to my eye. There are some excellent write-ups here, especially the suggestions on how to improve undergraduate education (given a magic wand) [http://www.slate.com/id/2130322/]. I
“The woman might have been sixty or sixty-five,” begins Milan Kundera, in his 1990 novel Immortality. He describes the stranger, being taught to swim by a young lifeguard. As she leaves, she turns, smiles and waves to her instructor. Kundera says, “At that instant I felt a pang in my
I’m listening to Tiesto for perhaps the seventh time this week, and I’ve spent the last three hours scribbling indecipherably in a composition notebook. And I feel that’s where I should be. I’m breaking all the NaNo rules that I tested last year, so I thought
So I’m back, listening to Sufjan Stevens and watching ASCII Starwars (telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl). Or being blasted by the syrupy cacophony of My Bloody Valentine. Needless to say, nine hundred thirty one megabytes of new music (courtesy of Pirate Extraordinaire Apu) makes this week in return new and
On the utmost verge of necessity, do you ever dive into the dense clouds of irresponsibility? Tonight, that should be my motto. I’m doing it all wrong. I’m attempting to mark off the checklist of requirements backwards, with the not-so-subtle aid of a six pack. What is with