halloween: a review

i’m having trouble processing that it was only last weekend (thursday-sunday) that i was in washington dc. it feels like weeks ago. i never mentioned that on the way back from dc, i rode with jane and alexa to jane’s…

i solved the negative expenses problem. again.

looking back i can see this has plagued me before: in january when i first identified the problem, in february when i explained in some detail what the heck i mean by a negative expense, and most recently in may…

oh dear. i’m in 201. research methods.

i woke up at 8am. dog seems to be barking somewhere (next door?) every morning. non stop. so i got 6hrs, but well, i’ve done pretty bad maintaining any sort of sleep schedule this semester. maybe it’s this 9:30am class.…

more questions than answers

i keep wanting to write about friendship. or about my philosophy of life. or just about some of my observations of life. which is right about when my head empties itself of all its contents. i also want to write…

memphis airport, smells sweet of bbq

it still feels unusual to use my cellphone outside of chapel hill proper. the kind of unusual one might feel when unexpectedly discovering an open wireless signal at a small airport. so like an obnoxious, prototypical business traveler, i chatted…

one day i pray i will sleep

lunch: crawfish etouffee with fried crawfish tails at mike anderson’s on bourbon street dinner: potato gnocchi, alaskan cod with sunchoke puree and chanterelles, guava sorbet at lilette one word: full. leaving for airport: 4 hours.

one class down

i am done with my final presentation for virtual communities. i did a survey of the tribe.net social networking service. jean did friendster, something that has been very popular this semester. the way blogging was last semester. like so many…

smart cars

i wonder if it would be possible to import one of these. so quirky and yet, so beautiful. apparently they won’t be available in the US until 2006 when they roll out an SUV model *gag*. i didn’t realize there…