words’ end
searching for the ineffable
2008/7/31
priorities
To hell with sleep. I now have an ungodly amount of pesto. Probably a couple of pounds of it (or a medium mixing bowl – pesto is heavy, what with the oil and all).
Oh, tasty tasty summer. And I’m just starting with the pesto. Watch out, world. (0)
2008/7/7
lyrics got me by the heartstrings
Dream with me, oh, dream with me, and we’ll wake in better life / And until we rise with open eyes, good night, my love, good night / Yes, until some sun wakes everyone, good night, my love, good night. –Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault and Peter Mulvey, “Lullaby 101″ off of Redbird (0)
News in the past day or so: out-of-state couples will soon be able to marry in MA!!, as a 1913 state law originally aimed at interracial couples is repealed.
AND.
I’d say we’re taking off, as a society.
Haven’t been updating, or not here anyway. Dealing with taxes and other emotionally loaded issues, as well as being super busy at work, participating in my village and preparing for Burning Man and its attendant road trip, have all kept me running around. You can see some of my life on Flickr. I suspect this – both the relative dearth of posting on Words’ End and the snippets viewable on Flickr – is going to continue for a while.
Today I went out on my bike for the first time in well over a year. Halleluiah for bike paths! I got past Arlington Center and out towards a football field – no idea how far that is from home, probably no more than four miles or so. Were it not getting dark fast (and had I had any water or food with me), I might’ve kept going – and will, soon, because oh gods that felt good.
Riding through swarms of insects out by Spy Pond in the dusk, though, maybe not so good. On the bright side, glasses double as mini eye shields!
On the way back, the ripening moon was peeking through the tree canopy straight ahead of and above me, along the path. And on ’til moonrise.
The lovely, warm evening ride gave me hope for dealing with the tax man tomorrow. Word to the wise: don’t be late filing your taxes. The penalties, they hurt.
At least one more ride this week. Next week I’d like to bike out to work.
I’m changing some DNS settings via my registrar, and may or may not have screwed things up. I’ll have to wait 24-48 hours (so until late Monday night at most) to figure out whether it’s just a propagation issue. Meanwhile, if you need to get in touch with me by email, please send mail to vzafrin-bu-edu, with the appropriate punctuation.
Fixed by reverting to the old settings, for now. If there’s some weirdness with my email in the next few days, you know why.
Have you ever used an institutional repository to find/retrieve or publish research? Which repository was it? What did/do you like and/or dislike about it?
Information on multiple repositories, of course, even more welcome.
The last thing in my dream before I woke up, four minutes ahead of the alarm: a place padded with cotton cloth with flames on it; a place where someone needs to go to rescue someone else, a place “so quiet, even the mimes are muted.” A prison for the mimes.
More-or-less unrelated: going through my head right now, and all morning, is Peter Mulvey’s “On the Way Up.”
The cumulative effect of this: strange, unsettled, want to go to the ocean and sing to the waves. I wonder what new storm is around the corner – there is one – and whether this storm will inspire or blight.
Just under 7min long. Watch it. Worth it. What’s your dream for your society? What do you consider your society – like your friends and your family and your pets, an entity that gives you much, and for which you’re responsible? I want to know.
Barlow, by the way, is fantastic. I want to cook him dinner and ask him about the world.
From NBC:
Exclusive Heroes Webisodes Coming Soon!
On July 14th, Heroes unleashes its first ever web series, “Going Postal.” The trilogy of online-only videos introduces us to Echo De Mille, a seemingly ordinary mailman with an extraordinary ability.
The three-part series is written and directed by the same creative team behind the award-winning TV show. Part one, “A Nifty Trick,” premieres Monday, July 14th, with new episodes rolling out on subsequent Mondays. Visitors to this year’s Comic Con, will get a sneak peak at the epic conclusion at the Heroes panel on Saturday, July 26th.
Here’s the trailer, if you’d like to see it. As usual these days, the links are to pretty processing-intensive pages.
Internets,
I need to pay for one night in any place with private rooms (hotel, b&b, whatever) in Amsterdam in early November. Naturally, I’d like to pay as little as possible while still having a door to close and no cigarette smell in the bed. Any suggestions?
(LJ feed readers: I won’t see replies left directly on LJ. You know what to do.)
