stasis is itself criminal

This is closed for business.

For the new year, I am starting a daily journal of photographs, which I have (tenatively) titled Reverse and located here.

The title is taken from one of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. It reflects the goal, which is a return to an intensity of creation that I’ve been lacking. I could, naturally, have continued in place, but setting is important and new endeavors are best suited to new environs.

Expect the site to change a great deal in the coming hours and days—it’s still being put together at the moment, but it should look and work appropriately soon.

A happy new year.

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Theory Girl is pretty good, but None is my favorite. Thank you, U. Washington CSE Band for facilitating my procrastination while I try to write two papers at the same time.

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I’ve updated my photo portfolio for the first time in a longish while. Worth a peek.

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I found Molly’s (very) brief appearance on The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Hulu. She steals the show with her cute little I’m-loading-my-backpack bounce.

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Thanks to some lucky ebaying, the laptop is fixed for only $200. (Well, almost fixed. I’m running with no fans at the moment but should be back up to one tomorrow. The other may not return since the connector pulled off the logic board, and soldering it makes me fear the whole thing will catch on fire.)

Consequently, I no longer feel so much like my arm is broken.

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Summarize your findings:

Application of absinthe does little to reduce the unhappiness resultant from causing $1000 of damage to one’s laptop during a time of poverty¹. Other researchers are advised not to duplicate these results.²

Plans for further study:

Mediocre pizza has been ordered, but improvement of the situation is expected to be minimal.

Recommendations:

Increased funding.

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My favorite photographs (of my own) are the ones I don’t edit. In the little break before classes start, I’ve been working on the never-ending project of editing, tagging, and rating photos in Aperture (I’ve done 2001–2004), and I’ve spent too much time trying to fix bad shots because I cared about the moment or the subject. These ones were good enough as they were. They’re just some sea-life, but they’re from a nice day out with someone special.

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