from the desk of stinkpot

drool. what the hell though is up with the name “macbook”? then again, these are the people who got us all sticking “i’s” in front of words for no good reason. i must admit, the part of the macbook that excites me the most is also the gimmickiest new feature: a magnetically connected powercord that […]

in the spirit of spending time on the computer, i’ve spent a couple of hours this weekend uploading my photos from our trip to france this summer onto my photo server. i’ve got about 300 of them up now; there are about 700 or so to go (yea, i’m a shutterbug). in any case, check […]

winter vacation has been fantastic so far. my general happiness has really increased, now that the burden of homework has been lifted. concomitant with my absolution from problem sets has been a decrease in time spent on the computer; i’m amazed at how much time i spent browsing the internet just because i was sitting […]

gee-whiz, i dropped over a dozen hamiltons on our last heating bill. although this is new england, i still find that staggering since our apartment really only has 4 rooms. so, like any good american, i’ve declared war – on natural gas usage in our home. christina and i have made several home depot runs […]

for all you emacs junkies, i’ve found a carbonized (looks prettier on a mac) emacs package here that plays well with tiger. server’s a bit slow, though.

i thought i’d post another one of those “dangerous ideas” because they’re so darn interesting. this one is courtesy of steve strogatz: pimp of non-linear dynamical systems and author of probably the most widely-read textbook on the subject. steve-o sez: I worry that insight is becoming impossible, at least at the frontiers of mathematics. Even […]

i’m really trying to curb the number of things i steal from boing-boing, but i couldn’t help myself on this one: “a contemporary version of the traditional irish wedding ring.” this is for real – it can be yours for the measly sum of $25. if you have no idea why i’d post something like […]

a bunch of really nifty idea nuggets here (“today’s most dangerous ideas,” put forth by some of the brightest people i’ve ever read/heard speak/heard about); richard dawkins, a biologist who likes to think about how evolution shaped human behavior, has some especially interesting things to say: Retribution as a moral principle is incompatible with a […]

christina and i have finally returned to cambridge after spending the last few days home in new york. we celebrated the new year by making shrimp tempura rolls and watching danny deckchair and the skeleton key. the skeleton key was especially frightening, since it combined two of my deepest fears: old people and the south. […]

i’m a big fan of the kind of music that doesn’t get played on the radio (the good kind). unfortunately, that means that i usually have trouble finding new bands that i like. i’ve just come across this awesome site, however, that looks like it’ll change that. pandora takes as input a song or artist […]