from the desk of stinkpot

i once asked drew endy what the best thing to visit in boston is.  dryly, he replied, “the airport.” christina and i have been doing a great job these past couple of weekends of getting out of boston.  last weekend, we took a day trip to northern connecticut.  only about 45 minutes away, we had […]

i had intended for this blog to be mainly photoblog. believe it or not, i’ve actually been taking a lot of pictures lately; it’s the image downloading/curating/editing that i’ve been avoiding. as much fun as a picture-less blog post is, i thought i’d try and work through my backlog of photos. tonight, i finished uploading […]

two more photos i came across today.  i love juxtaposing them.  i think i’ll try and frame them side-by-side.

so lately, i feel like i still haven’t been getting enough work done. actually, i’ve been having this problem all summer. i need to work harder. but, over the past year or so, i’m starting to relearn that old lesson, that devoting more time to work doesn’t produce more results. instead, at least in my […]

i thought i’d share some of the photos i took during our camping trip last weekend to rhode island. we spent two days at east beach – easily the best beach i’ve ever been to in new england. the water was warm (a balmy 65 degrees) and the beach was uncrowded (as you can see […]

finally found the time to download, cull, and upload the photos from my family’s recent trip to california. it’s gotten bad – i take far too many pictures and spend an inordinate amount of time deleting a majority of them. in any case, i thought i’d share some of the photos i took and use […]

warm summer nights put me in a soldering mood. i’ve dedicated a bunch of my free time lately to jacks, plugs, and cables (leaving our kitchen table a mess). motivating the orgy of wires has been a recent resolution to wire our entire apartment. i’ve got this web-based mp3 box piping music through my home-made […]

i took today off, it being america’s birthday and all. christina and i celebrated with our delightfully canadian friend jesse. like a good american boy, i made hamburgers. my griddle must have been channeling abe lincoln’s ghost: i put out the best burgers of my life. red onions, garlic, paprika, and peter luger’s steak sauce, […]

eric (the head of my lab) hosted the first-ever alm lab bbq today at his house in medford. it was great: the lab is this wonderful size (four grad students and one post-doc) where you’ve got enough people to officially designate it a “lab,” while still maintaining intimacy. our lab really feels like a warm, […]

it’s a bit late now. i meant to get a lot done tonight (read: do some research) but instead, i got caught up going through the photos i took while we were abroad. gawsh, i must’ve brought back about 1500 photos. i axed about a third of them. the remaining two thirds are heading here […]