Arriving Somewhere

Here’s a video for the first single from the new album by Norwegian folk rock band Lumsk. The song is Om Hundrede Aar Er Alting Glemt and the album Det Vilde Kor.

The lyrics are from something written by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. They roughly translate:
I drift in the evening, thinking and struggling,
I am [...]

Log in to Google Docs & Spreadsheets if you haven’t already today. They’ve updated the interface to include the ability to organize your documents into folders. Is it just me or is Google trying to replace our desktops?

Back in ‘04 I started compiling a list of books that I had read. Here’s that year’s list with links to Amazon, alphabetical by title. The number represents my score for the book out of 5:
(0) despised it
(1) didn’t like it
(2) it was ok (think of this as a grade of a C)
(3) [...]

Back on Memorial Day I visited the Washington, DC World War Memorial. This memorial is rather unique in DC as it is the only one on The Mall that is dedicated to local interests. The memorial is dedicated to Washingtonians who served in the Great War. The memorial itself can only be [...]

Want to help mankind get to Mars? Volunteer for a 520-day psychological experiment.

Michael Gorman wrote a couple of interesting blog (!) posts in which he assails Web 2.0 and the “wisdom of crowds” as “a desire to avoid individual responsibility; anti-intellectualism…” In his words, “The life of the mind in the age of Web 2.0 suffers, in many ways, from an increase in credulity and an [...]

So, I’m sitting at College Perk - my favorite coffee house in the DC area - doing some homework, and a girl walks by with Stratego tucked under her arm. Awesome. On the wall opposite me is a framed print that says NOSTALGIA and has pictures of various 1980’s pop culture items [...]