I haven't updated in a little bit since I've been so busy with finishing up things at work and packing before the big move to Boston. I figured I'd just add this picture because I've been looking for a reason to post it and this is as good a reason as any. A friend sent it to me a little while back and it has... Read More
>Hey, did that Pietasters show happen yet? How was it?
Nope, it's on Friday night. I'll let you know.
Thank you
Edited to add: I keep forgetting to tell you (you may already know) but the New England Revolution are undefeated as of the other day. The bad news is that apparently their star player (name?) just got injured.
>What in the world would bring to the highest navigable point on the Mississippi? Were you a shipping magnate before you became a land baron?
No, I am a dork. I collect toys. Robot toys. As such, I have a deep and abiding interest in Transformers. My brother and I used to go to the annual TF convention. It travelled around the country and one year it was in St. Paul.
We stopped going a couple years ago because we were just attending to buy stuff, not meet people and almost anything you could find there was becoming available online without having to fly somewhere and pay for a hotel. That's a run-on sentence.
So we happened upon this amazing piece of Americana somewhere in the hinterland between Minneapolis and Chicago on the way to see Desmond Dekker. Help me out here. I'm really trying to make sense of this, but everytime I look at this it makes my head hurt. What could this possibly mean (outside of the crudely obvious) and why in God's name would you put... Read More
I'm glad you liked the reggae mixes. You obviously know your stuff! I plan to have a lot more in the future.
The truck pic above- I think I've seen that before somewhere. I lived in Jacksonville Florida for a year and you'd see stuff like that all the time. All you can do is laugh. My all time favorite? [TAKE THEIR GAS AND NUKE THEIR ASS]. Amazing
OK, looks like I have it set up to have dinner at the club with the group owner. I hope you can get away to meet us, it should be fun.
As of right now I think I am going to drive straight into town around 3 and just leave my car there and do some shopping or something until dinner time. After I finish typing this I'll email you my phone number so you can contact me when you know what your situation is.
>No kidding. I popped over there to look into it a while back and they have all these rules that basically prevent anyone who is not already a member from joining. *shrug*
Yeah, and the funny thing is, I was a member back when I joined SG the first time and I still can't get in.
Well, there it is. With the stroke of 4 pens I have been deemed worthy of earning PhD. Its been a long time coming and I can't help but feel a little depressed by the whole process. I supposed I should be happy, but to be honest I'm just glad its over at this point. It will probably be several weeks before I can look... Read More
Yeah, I've never been to a Ska show where the crowd was lousy. It makes me a little sad inside to hear of it. Sure, some have been a little too crowded to dance as freely as one would like, but nobody was jerky about it.
I've never really been into getting punched, even when I was young and angry. I usually stayed out of the heart of the "pit".
Well, its finally done. I turned in the thesis yesterday and now I can relax for a few days. Not quite a doctor yet, but soon ... and the hard part is out of the way. I wish I had something profound to say, but I've got nuthin' to offer.
So I got this email today from a new grad student in the department (who is very much a white American girl ... so this isn't a non-native speaker issue) in response to me sending her some old journal articles to help her get her project off the ground (names changed to protect the innocent, otherwise its word for word):
I stumbled across this nice little quote on dictionary.com:
The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery, probably best known for his classic children's book "The Little Prince", was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there... Read More
>Science stuff. Making artificial arteries. Its kind of my thing. I'm excited about it and about moving back to Boston.
Yeah, my bias for Boston aside, it's a great place to be working in that type of field. I have a friend from college who is doing some kind of genetic research at Harvard.
>So what keeps you busy way out in Northhampton. That's halfway across the state, isn't it?
Yes, it is in Fascinating and Mysterious Western Mass. I grew up just south of Boston and though I was just as guilty, it always amuses me now how little anyone back there knows about the other side of the state.
What do I do? My answer depends on what mood I am in. When I am feeling uppity, I am a treasurer in a small corporation. Most of the time I am just a landlord though. My father and I have a small real estate thing going on. We have 2 mutli family properties and I am kind of like the point man in the field. All that means is, despite my multiple degrees, at the end of the day I fix toilets.
As far as recreational activities, we have a pretty decent amount of art/culture related venues out here, but we do have to head back to Boston time and again to catch some shows or what-not. If you go back to my first journal entry, you can see a scathing review of what it is like to live in the liberal freak-friendly bubble that is Northampton.
