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.
Sir @ November 30, 2011 # 3 Comments
I could talk about any number of profound things to round out the month, but my brain is fried. I acknowledge the benefits of annually stopping what I’m doing and spending quality time diving into the scientific literature in order to remind me of what I do know (a fair amount) and what I don’t [...]
Sir @ November 29, 2011 # One Comment
I extricated myself from the hospital this afternoon to the main campus in order to take advantage of the huge library. The hospital’s library is fairly tiny and primarily caters to the medical students and their frantic, desperate attempts to learn everything in as short a time as possible. Trying to get anything done there [...]
Sir @ November 28, 2011 # No Comment Yet
You’ll be happy to know that I’m still enough of a perfectionist to make my life a living hell. Why you’re happy about this is beyond me. You’re just awful, I guess. I periodically talk about my research to groups of people who know stuff. This isn’t technically that big a deal. I know what [...]
Sir @ November 27, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Lo, but I am profoundly pooped, ye verily. Driving ~20 hours in three days; A horrendous idea that is Truly for the birds. This is a falsehood. Birds would never do such a thing, For they lack the self-hate Required. Not that I hate myself, Mind you. It’s just that I’m a Crappy poet. Actually, [...]
Sir @ November 26, 2011 # No Comment Yet
It seems like everyone in the Midwest has a finished basement. This is an observation that I took for granted during most of my life, but certainly for all of my adolescence. There was talk of this today at the Thanksgiving celebration involving my sister’s in-laws, whose extended family numbers somewhere in the low thousands. [...]
Sir @ November 25, 2011 # One Comment
There was a time when I viewed traveling as a certifiable hoot. I loved it. Planes. Trains. Automobiles. Especially automobiles. Since age 18, I’ve driven everywhere to see family and friends, never caring much about the distance or the effort involved. This is no longer the case. Holy crap, do I hate driving log distances [...]
Sir @ November 24, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Too fat with pie and meat to write anything of substance. The prime directive today was eating. There was also some drinking. I’m so high on starch and gravy that I’m using gerunds with impunity. I can not abide an avalanche of gerunds. This madness stops now.
Sir @ November 23, 2011 # One Comment
I baked a pie tonight in preparation for tomorrow’s gluttony. Pie making has become astonishingly straightforward over the years due to high volumes of practice, so its construction went without a hitch, as did its time spent in the oven. All very simple. Practically zen-like. While the pie baked, I was sitting in the quiet [...]
Sir @ November 22, 2011 # 4 Comments
My ex-girlfriend’s ferrets were (are) the devil’s henchmen. They are the singular cause of her ‘ex’ status. More specifically, I demanded that she choose between me and the ferrets and now I’m single. At first I was upset, but over time I’ve come to realize that having chosen satan’s rats over me, she was both [...]
Sir @ November 21, 2011 # One Comment
Returning to the house this morning after a weekend away, I was greeted with the visual of an ex-mouse successfully dispatched by the trap that I’d badmouthed here a couple days ago. Taking in the grisly scene, I did what I’m sure all men in a similar position would do: I smeared my face with [...]