Archive for the ‘ Diurnal dribble ’ Category
Off to the folks’ house this weekend to host a party for the extended family to meet Sienna. Hopefully things will calm down a bit after this. [ READ MORE ]
My friend who runs the Big River Zen Center has convinced me that I should Ken Wilber’s ‘integral vision’ A Theory of Everything. I haven’t gotten too far into it and fundamentally disagree with his essentialist approach to hierarchies and his faith in nested hierarchies, but that’s for another time. Today I had a short [ READ MORE ]
I love this time of year. The temperature is perfect: refreshing rather than bracing. The moisture is not really necessary, but it’s not unwelcome if it’s not raining. But the best thing (at least this year) is the sound of the leaves. They’re still vibrant and supple, but they’re beginning to dry up and get [ READ MORE ]
Looks like the site is going to be a bit wacky for a while. I don’t want to deal with this, but to get everything going, it seems as though I have to construct a more contemporary theme. Please pardon appearances while I work this out. [ READ MORE ]
No, not the art of keeping your house in a supposedly recovering economy. After a day of feeding and wiping, holding and hugging, and playing and praying for mercy from Sienna, I was just washing umpteen bottles, nipples, rings, caps, and covers. And it struck me what an art housekeeping can be. At its best it [ READ MORE ]
And another friend’s new blog: Una China Entremedias. [ READ MORE ]
My friend Troy has just started up a website/blog, which is sure to be of enduring interest. I disagree with him on most things, but a debate with him is always productive. [ READ MORE ]
“Going to work” for the last two days has been outstandingly productive. I haven’t gotten loads done, but it’s steady, useful progress. (Skipping today to register for day care and to make a campus visit.) The hours of work I put into setting up my computers and learning LaTeX and pgfSweave and latex-suite and Awesome [ READ MORE ]
The NYTimes has this article on a collectively governed homeless encampment in Providence, R.I. that will soon relocate. [ READ MORE ]
This morning I took the first step toward a new regime…at least for the bulk of the coming month. Yesterday I found myself writing to Babo that if things continued as they have been going, I’ll never get anything done. By chance I had the opportunity to ask Susan Fainstein for tips on juggling children and [ READ MORE ]
I’m pleased to announce that two of my friends have recently found academic positions for the coming year. First, Dr. Matthew Gebhardt will be heading off to Sheffield, England, where my “Potter” ancestors worked at some profession or other before emigrating to the US. And second, JY Kim, Esq. has at the last minute obtained [ READ MORE ]
As if I needed things to get crazier now that birth is likely in the next day and a half, I’ve got to get the car repaired. Thursday I left the lights on and killed the battery. Instead of wasting a call to AAA, I decided I’d buy a battery booster, since I obviously need [ READ MORE ]
I crushed the voice of spring. On my usual route to the western terminus of Long Island Sound, I was bombing down the bike path and chanced upon a robin. This was a familiar encounter. I rush down upon birds in the path, and robins in particular wait until I’m nearly upon them before dahing perpindicularly [ READ MORE ]
Today, as I was walking to Good N’ Natural on White Plains Road, I passed a portly man in a disheveled, red, lumber-jack shirt. As he approached, he arched his head back to give his fingers generous access to his nostrils, of which his fingers took immediate advantage. He proceeded to smear his detritus on [ READ MORE ]
Steven Strogatz, who begat Duncan Watts, writes in Olivia Judson’s NYTimes column this week about the article I blogged about here. He concludes his recapping of the commonality of Zipf’s Law in both cities and animals with the following: These numerical coincidences seem to be telling us something profound. It appears that Aristotle’s metaphor of a [ READ MORE ]