Enero 2009
Diciembre 2008
Carlsen, Magnus FIDE Chess Player Personal Page →
I was reading an article about top rated chess players skewing much younger these days, and noticed that in the latest ratings, Magnus Carlsen is now #4 in the world, according to FIDE. Magnus, of course, is the Nordic prodigy, who this year will be 19.
“Michael Bay, director of the movie “Transformers,” will again team...”
– the methods the US Military is using to improve their image are hilarious to me. I can only hope Propagandhi will do another song.
TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | The Daily Muck
ah work. I missed you.
going on a walk to the beach. there’s something I’ve missed the last week or so.
SA . Super Mario 63 →
huh.
still in SLC. flights hampered by weather last night, missing items, christmas drama.
cutting my hair off. flickrs to come later
i dislike being loosely scheduled. it makes me anxious that I’ll get out of an unknown parameter for someone and muss everything up.
hmm, what to do with the next five hours?
just flew over SLC, bit cloudy, but the city (and the mountains) are quite lovely from above with a bit of time to linger.
first day of vacation: success. I sleep the sleep of the just.
goodnight SLC.
Foreign Policy: A World Enslaved →
There are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history. True abolition will elude us until we admit the massive scope of the problem, attack it in all its forms, and empower slaves to help free themselves.
uh, whoa.
ah, in SLC, but safely on the internet again. once again I am a religious minority.
got a lot of ex-girlfriend memories floating around today. hmm. ♫ http://blip.fm/~18tt0
listening to Storm and Balls. not sure how I missed this one. I like the loungey girl talk style a lot.
B. Traven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
the mysterious author of Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Nobody knows who he was, and he is suspected to have worked under at least three other synonyms.
got a couple of hours to finish up at work, all packed to go otherwise
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treading water a bit at work. gonna go home and sleep and then come back…
1000 tweets! Sorry, just had to get that out of my system.
I had this job. ♫ http://blip.fm/~18jaz
reblipping this one from Digitalyn’s stream. for more cheering. ♫ http://blip.fm/~18i5s
Want to Go Green? Ask Grandma | GreenDivaMom.com... →
Achievement Unlocked | Armor Games →
this is one of the cleverest flash games I’ve played in a long time.
time for a final sprint, finishing things up so I can get out of here tomorrow. My code be swift!
The Tragically Nameless Podcast: #202: Nietzsche... →
another good week from TNP. I’ve been listening to this guy since he was a teen doing this from his basement, and he always puts on music that is interesting and new to me.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Mice suspected in deadly cat... →
undercover Mouse Guard units strike back at enemy hospitals.
going home now.
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
– Borges, Jorge Luis quote
going to try sleeping
I’m tired but I can’t sleep. I’ve now drunk three nights in a row. Am I avoiding something? I’m going on vacation on saturday. I’m not ready
“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
– Depressing, but seemingly true. I have never gotten so revealing knowledge as when I placed trust in people without any expectation of result.
Walter Benjamin Quotes
Going home.
ifightrobots.com | It’s Official: Space Travel is... →
I knew about some of these, but seeing them together does give one the impression that Space is becoming awesome again.
I can listen to Bad Religion all day. It’s really like one immense song. ♫ http://blip.fm/~16vaw
going home now. a good and productive day, I think.
Whitechapel - Xmas food thread →
Five minute mini-cake recipe. Stunning.
COMEDY. This man knows my struggle. ♫ http://blip.fm/~16qjn
At first I was afraid, I was petrified… ♫ http://blip.fm/~16plp