Bring the Ripples

Working on mapping my co-workers to the Wu-Tang Clan. So far I’ve got the RZA, the GZA, and O.D.B. figured out.

I just felt the baby kick!

At the social security office. Liking the photo of the boss on the wall.

The C Programming Language by Kernighan & Ritchie & …HP Lovecraft… http://bit.ly/52GF9K /via @cw

Had my first Tim Tam explosion last night. Pretty damn good.

How ‘bout that, our first Lake Tahoe earthquake!

Just watched The Business of Being Born. Everyone in the US needs to see this. http://bit.ly/74DypL

RT @cw: RT @kevinweil: Get it? http://bit.ly/4O0glh

Why we hate what we hate

My second year in grad school one of my cohorts had a serious difference of opinion with a professor. This went way beyond apathy, or frustration, or even surliness, all the way to outward negative creativity. The apex (or rather, the nadir) was a parody of “Master of the House” from Les Misèrables in which my fellow student expressed her frustration with the professor.

“Life is too short,” we say, “for such negative feelings.” That time and energy could be put toward something constructive. There’s a good place for anger, the soul that gets things accomplished, when fighting for justice in the world: but that’s really just another way to be constructive. But when it really is a difference of taste, personality, or opinion, a pet peeve that has started to piss on the carpet? You can always find another person who is wrong enough to waste your time on them.

I would love to witness Ignatius J. Reilly’s reaction to the theology and geometry in Lady Gaga’s videos.