March 2009
21 posts
the unified theory of watching people in the...
This is an apology to the people of the future. Primarily to those people in the future who develop machinery that allows them to look backward in time to passively observe past events. I have been paranoid about the possibility of your existence ever since I read Orson Scott Card’s Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus when I was 14. I have since then tried my hardest to avoid...
the sherry has returned to her blogging ways! →
With thoughtful questions about dubious education initiatives!
i'm too intense
If you have ever wondered what it would look like if Pacey Witter and Emm Gryner woke up naked under a blanket after a night of lovemaking on the forest floor in Banff National Park you should go see One Week. It was a pretty okay movie. It needed more grain elevators.
bing out your dead
You can’t resurrect the dinosaurs. It’s been too long and there’s just no DNA left in those fossil mosquito abdomens. This isn’t an issue of there being “gaps in the DNA” where you can just patch in some frog genes and then when you show off the finished product conveniently forget to mention to the shareholders that the velociraptors they’re feeding dead...
Readability →
It’s a bookmarklet that reformats unreadable webpages so they don’t hurt your face anymore.
conversations with dog
“That’s what life’s like, Cloey. Sometimes you’re the pinscher, and sometimes you’re the pinschee.”
victory list
Sometimes it is constructive to make a victory list. This list serves to remind you of all your glorious accomplishments at times when the tasks before you make life (or work, or their confluence) seem like a long march through a knee-deep swamp filled with rancid molasses that stretches to the horizon in every direction. In rubber boots that are two sizes too big.
A list, then.
Successfully...