Between system crashes, Blogger outages, and general occurances of an Unfortunate Nature, I haven't been able to be as speedy with the posts as I would like. To make up for that, I have both a story (well, more of a plotless anecdote) to tell as well as a few links to share.
The anecdote: After the most recent crash (Switching from one window to another and everything just freezes. The music stops playing, the mouse stops moving, I start gesticulating wildly. It is bad, and happens frighteningly often.) I decided to wait awhile before trying again, and took a walk down to Mitchell Hall, which happens to be the registrar's office, so as to pick up a copy of the schedule book for next quarter. On my way there I saw: An advertisement for David Spade, about whom I may share more later; a sad news story on TV, and an incredibly gorgeous woman in a grey skirt with a deep slit up one side. She wore these odd shoes that made this entrancing wooden clacking noise which each step, and she seemed to be going in the same direction I was. So, this was good. I mean, I am less outgoing than a very unoutgoing person, a border guard in the former Yugoslavia, say. I was not going to actually, you know, talk to her or make eye contact or anything. But still.
So we both went into the building, but it turned out she had something to do way in the back, behind all the desks and cubicles and subcubicles, and so I just wandered around for a bit looking for the schedule books, and then found the schedule books, and then came back here. The end.
The links: In his speech launching the Viridian Design movement, Bruce Sterling shares the following organizational principle: "All art movements tend to have favorite drugs. We're also interested in drugs. Our pet drug is Viagra . This is the first legal, recreational dope that has swept the entire population in ages. We're interested in biomedicine and life-extension drugs. Mostly we're interested in these drugs because they are the only mind-altering drugs that are well-designed. Because believe me, when you live longer, your mind gets permanently altered."
Well, hooray. And such. But it appears that Viagra may have more concrete environmental benefits as well.
The anecdote: After the most recent crash (Switching from one window to another and everything just freezes. The music stops playing, the mouse stops moving, I start gesticulating wildly. It is bad, and happens frighteningly often.) I decided to wait awhile before trying again, and took a walk down to Mitchell Hall, which happens to be the registrar's office, so as to pick up a copy of the schedule book for next quarter. On my way there I saw: An advertisement for David Spade, about whom I may share more later; a sad news story on TV, and an incredibly gorgeous woman in a grey skirt with a deep slit up one side. She wore these odd shoes that made this entrancing wooden clacking noise which each step, and she seemed to be going in the same direction I was. So, this was good. I mean, I am less outgoing than a very unoutgoing person, a border guard in the former Yugoslavia, say. I was not going to actually, you know, talk to her or make eye contact or anything. But still.
So we both went into the building, but it turned out she had something to do way in the back, behind all the desks and cubicles and subcubicles, and so I just wandered around for a bit looking for the schedule books, and then found the schedule books, and then came back here. The end.
The links: In his speech launching the Viridian Design movement, Bruce Sterling shares the following organizational principle: "All art movements tend to have favorite drugs. We're also interested in drugs. Our pet drug is Viagra . This is the first legal, recreational dope that has swept the entire population in ages. We're interested in biomedicine and life-extension drugs. Mostly we're interested in these drugs because they are the only mind-altering drugs that are well-designed. Because believe me, when you live longer, your mind gets permanently altered."
Well, hooray. And such. But it appears that Viagra may have more concrete environmental benefits as well.
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