Despite the wonders that are delivered by digital music today, sometimes I really miss lying on my back on a shag carpet, eyes closed, two huge stack speakers aimed at my head, listening to a quality vinyl record played over excellent analog equipment.
One day I wish to retire to a dictionary.
Sometimes I come untethered.
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Sir @ April 21, 2011 # 7 Comments
This week’s installment of the IndieInk Writing Challenge was submitted by Wendryn: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. – Charles Darwin It supplements a week that’s been jam packed with science-related blah blah. My [...]
Sir @ November 27, 2010 # 3 Comments
What’s the best thing going for you right now? When people ask me what I do, I neither cringe nor sigh before answering. I think this may place me in rare company in the world of employment. I haven’t quite perfected the most efficient answer to the question yet, though, because it’s not a job, [...]
Sir @ November 25, 2010 # 4 Comments
The reason you believe you’re still alive today Hell, I don’t know. I could wax philosophical about the meaning of life and what keeps us going and how everything happens for a reason and blah blah blah, but I’ve already beaten that dead horse into the ground. And what is it about dead horses that [...]
Sir @ July 14, 2010 # 7 Comments
If you must know, I’ve been shut away in my basement working on a book titled Sodomy and the Lash: An Unauthorized History of the British Navy. It’s an epic story full of lies. And sodomy. I think there’s a market for it. Actually, part of May and all of June were spent forcing my [...]
Sir @ March 16, 2010 # 7 Comments
There’s a period of academic hazing in a lot of science-related graduate programs, but once that gauntlet has been run, the remaining years may consist of little more than one or two months of mild, easily absorbed pain. Not even pain, really. Annoyances maybe? Yeah, let’s go with that. March is currently annoying me. April [...]
Sir @ February 26, 2010 # 8 Comments
*Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk* This is what it looks like in print when I bang my head against a wall. One thing that I don’t do nearly enough here is talk about what I do. Why do I feel like I need to do this more or even at all? Because going type-y type-y does less emotional damage [...]
Sir @ September 21, 2009 # 9 Comments
The muse has been preoccupied with science-related baloney these last few weeks, which has required said muse to forgo all other responsibilities in support of concentration. There are two sides to my muse: There’s the side of her that allows me to hurl drivel onto a white page for random consumption, then there’s the other [...]