Archive for January, 2005

Shards full of youth, Shards full of truth

Monday, January 17th, 2005

…six PINK TIGHTS and one part vermouth!

Two score of us from HBOMB and YALE did our part to help the
Normalville Supers restore normality to their little
Bender‘sHead-shaped VNECK of the woods, IMMOBILIZING the incoming
meteors, DIMINISHING their effect, and generally struggling on IN THE
HEAT OF
THE NIGHT.  We stressed our collections of SILICON, KEYBOARD KEYs,
and other
SMALL PLASTIC WIDGETs.  We turned to strange sources for
help; our team of MONKEYS, support crew of DALMATIANS, and HIPPOGRIFF
mascot did their part; even indulging in SPIRIT WRITING and running
scripts on MICROSOFT WINDOWS when necessary. 

The visiting
luminaries gladly provided their OCTROI of victuals — PASTRIES, dijon
and HEINZ, CONDENSED CANs OF
SOUP, MAGNUMs of coke, and other EDIBLEs provided much-needed mental
AUGMENTATION over the long weekend.  We fell in love, variously,
with AGNETHA FAALUSKOG and Miss December… and all agreed, with
DIPLOMACY, that had we truly mastered the power of TIME TRAVEL, we
would go back in time and do it again.

Finals Period approacheth

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

And the world’s best procrastination tool
is in lockstep with it, interleaving ever so subtly with the end of
reading period.  Evil and wonderful all at once.  We’ll be in
Building 26 this year; give me a holler if you’re passing by.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall…

Monday, January 10th, 2005

A new year, time for a new layout, posting policy, linking
format.  The nice thing about this reflective web is it’s so easy
to see (technorati, google, frassle) what others are saying.

Speaking of which… I’m finally surpassing all of the Swedish pretenders to my name; sj now shows up in the top 30 Google hits. 

Postage Backlog

Monday, January 10th, 2005

As they say in my barrio, Post
up, fool!  There are a few weeks of postage waiting to be made
live; about travel, isolation and urban melting pots, language
migration,  directed social gatherings, mystery hunts, and
more.  You should see most of it emerge over the next few days.

For now, just a reminder: there’s a meetup tonight at
7:00pm EST at ABP in Harvard Square.  Hope to see you
there!   There will be news about WIRED and other weekly and
quarterly publications, portals and wormholes, and *ahem* great soup.