2008/07/06 01:27 I'm sitting in my old bedroom at my parents' house, home for the 4th of July weekend. Earlier today we bought and set up a wireless router, so now anywhere in the house (and even in the little gazebo just outside) you can get internet access. Which is to say, from anywhere inside or near the house I can have at my fingertips access to trillions of bytes of literature, art, music, scientific knowledge, debate and commentary, news... pretty much anything that has ever interested any human that doesn't require physical participation. A scientist or scholar from scarcely a hundred years ago would have sold their soul to the devil for such a resource.

And I'm bored. I just went downstairs to the bookcase to get a book to read, because I can't think of anything I want to do here. (Except post about it! Oh, how delightfully meta.)

2008/06/09 19:19 Apparently they decided to start importing the Earth's atmosphere from Venus or something over the weekend. I would have appreciated a memo on the subject. Now begins the part of the year when I contemplate moving my computer, desk, bed, &c downstairs to the living room where there is air conditioning.

I think I'm going to stretch my ears up to 5/8". I've got some Kaos "skin" eyelets I'm going to try out as destination jewelry once the teflon tape gets me up to size. Silicone tends to dry out my earlobes during winter months. Hopefully that won't be as much of a problem now.

I've got jury duty this week. Approving of the concept of a trial by one's peers in principle does not mean I look forward to actually participating in the process, however briefly. If I wear very obviously taped-up eyelets, will that decrease or increase my chances of being selected?

2008/05/01 20:18 Two for the price of one:

• Another story at 365 Tomorrows; and
• Proof that four years of college wasn't totally useless.

2007/12/07 20:19 This is actually two sitting's worth of new work:

2007/09/18 02:12 Sorry they're kinda blurry; I'll get better ones as the work progresses further.