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And Down The Stretch they Come

Cleaning the house. Cleaning cleaning cleaning. Mixing Pine Sol and Windex and Drano and Kleen-King bleach-laden scouring agent without regard for my safety. There isn’t a drain in this house which isn’t clogged. Nothing like getting down there with a rag to remind me what a wreck this house is. Either the upstairs bathtub or […]

Detritus Verité

In which everyone acknowledges their debt to Frank Zappa. Do not be so eager for the end of the year 2000. The planets are in line. The statue has cried real blood, and the people of the village are exclaiming. And at the very least, it will be another ten years until it’s this easy […]

Clementine season

By Christmas even the idea of citrus will turn my stomach, just in time to return to California.

Day: Minutes

“Are you still our teacher?” they kept asking me, sizing up how much it would take to drive me away. They know they can do it. I’ll be in California in two weeks. Suddenly I felt very very out of place.

Laundry Monitors

Leave it to MIT students to monitor their laundry machines on the web. This system was apparently created so students didn’t have to trek all the way to the machines only to discover they were full. Hampshire comp sci students are now working on a similar system, having discarded an earlier webcam idea. You go, […]

A Day Without Weblogs

Detritus: Meant For A Long-Running Unfinished Work

Today we found a working pencil sharpener in class– one of those objects which draws attention as if it were an enchanted carpet or broom. The sound of it grinding away elicited a deep urge in all of the kids to come get their own sharpened. Narovi appeared with a perfectly functional pencil. She smiled […]

Victoreeee!

The Popo Village project, which I started a year ago in an attempt to make the Annotated Hypertextography Of My Interests (i.e. collection of links) more interesting, is FINISHED and UP and now you can always visit it by clicking the “Return to Popo Village Map” or Return to My Room links in the left […]

Detritus: A Luaka Bop P0rn Thanksgiving, In Which I Address Celebrities

I’m not really sure what the fuss is about Thanksgiving. So many people I know dread having to be with their families for a whole meal. Despite my family’s divorce (two generations of it on one side), Thanksgiving has never had that tension looming over it. I would have loved to be home with my […]

Rats.

So if I don’t start improving my sleep patterns, I’m going get steadily dumber? stands to reason, I guess. So much for the Fight Sleep campaign.