mood: genetic music: Jonathan Coulton - That Spells DNA

The mistake was tiny, microscopic, invisible to the naked eye, yet none the less lethal for its size. A mistake repeated billions upon billions of times during the months prior, marring the codex of the developing life within. The genome...

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location: Cafe Coco, Nashville

mood: very awake

music: David Holmes - $160 Million Chinese Man

It feel like looking back on a day at an amusement park - the time has gone so fast you'd swear you've only been there an hour, but the aching in your feet and bag of useless toys and funnel cake...

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music: Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Dear Craig,

Welcome to 1996.

First, the bad news, and I'm not going to sugar-coat it: you are not going to hit your full height for another eight years. Despite the constant prayers and hoping against hope, you are going to remain way below average for a wh...

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mood: rambling A while back I started an entry on the ethics of universal health care.

:looks:: I should finish that. Right after I drink this Mt. Dew.

I'm back from Canada after a good tour experience. The annoyance at the first show was gradually replaced with a sort of vague indifference...

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location: Halifax, Nova Scotia

mood: tired

You know what really annoys me? The "Push to start!" button on gas pumps.

Why do we need these? They add a completely arbitrary extra step - they exist only to impede your gas-pumping progress. Pressing the "Start" button doesn't do anything except...

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