from the desk of stinkpot

this nytimes article is stunning. the author recounts: One morning when he was 15, Takeshi shut the door to his bedroom, and for the next four years he did not come out. He didn’t go to school. He didn’t have a job. He didn’t have friends. Month after month, he spent 23 hours a day […]

i took a bike ride into boston commons earlier this week, to go and pick up tickets for the belle & sebastian + new pornographers concert at avalon on feb. 27th. i brought along the new camera, to try and gain a little more experience with taking pictures. here’re the results. unfortunately, most of them […]

i learned a new word today: malapropism. it means the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect an example would be saying something isn’t your fort, when you really meant to say, forte (if someone knows how to insert an accented e, i’d love to know […]

wow, this is hard to believe; i’d think it a prank if it didn’t come from CBS. apparently: The Vatican newspaper has published an article saying “intelligent design” is not science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only creates confusion. go see for yourself here. hopefully, the majority of americans who […]

gee – i’d been reading about how bad the windstorms were back home in new york but i figured the problems were localized to nyc. silly me, i have to keep relearning the same lesson: boston weather always sucks more. it hit me, literally, on the bike ride home tonight. as i rounded the kendall […]

i am really enjoying mit. as long as you’re not an undergrad here (they appear to just get pummeled incessantly) mit is a fun, and dare i say – laid back place. right, i am never going to eat those words. in any case, what’s inspired my demeanor has been IAP: mit’s “independent activities period.” […]

brendon pointed me to this flash game last night. it’s inventive and gorgeous to boot – exactly what flash games ought to be. go check it out.

“the best of google video” – looks to be a great time waster.

i’m now in too deep to this whole photography thing; i actually told someone i was “an aspiring photographer” yesterday. what a tacky thing to say. in any case, i was reading up what you are, and are not allowed to do, with your camera the other day and came across this informative article. apparently, […]

this is totally going on the things to do list. a fellow over at inventgeek has made himself a vibrating lock picker out of an oral-b flosser. total cost is about $10 – how could anyone pass up building this? such a clever idea.