Ebb and Flow

Bleurgh.

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:11:00 -0700

My blog has been spammed. The ‘fixes’ aren’t working. Think I’m done with tumblr.

“Syd hates these trips to the West Coast. You can’t...

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:32:57 -0700

“Syd hates these trips to the West Coast. You can’t get a decent veal sandwich and just yesterday he met a woman who lived on a houseboat in False Creek who gave her two Abyssinian kittens bimonthly fish-oil enemas. Guys walked around downtown carrying waterproof briefcases and wearing flip-flops. How could you do business with these people when their hair-tufted toes were showing?” Z. Gartner (2011)

A delicious discovery from todays writers fest.

The Canucks have a new goal song. Oh yes they do. Electric...

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:06:13 -0700

The Canucks have a new goal song. Oh yes they do.

Electric Worry, “Clutch”

Booker Prize winners (from yesterday to 1989).

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:09:27 -0700

Booker Prize winners (from yesterday to 1989).

Feist and her band performing “Graveyard” on CBC...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:23:00 -0700

Feist and her band performing “Graveyard” on CBC Q.

On repeat. So great.

Oops. These followed me home for work.

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:45:35 -0700

Oops. These followed me home for work.

Photo

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:37:17 -0700

"I still listen to good music, though. The Decemberists, Dirty Projectors, Nouvelle Vague, Beirut,..."

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:34:03 -0700

“I still listen to good music, though. The Decemberists, Dirty Projectors, Nouvelle Vague, Beirut, Belle and Sebastian, Tears for Fears. I listen to all of them—in my house. When I leave my house though, I usually don’t bother bringing my iPod and instead I just put on the radio in my car and kind of just listen to whatever’s popular—but I do it ironically. You should have seen how people looked at me the other day when I was parking my Focus blasting that new Linkin Park song from the Transformers soundtrack. They totally didn’t get it.”

- From “You look at me like you’ve never seen a neo-hipster before”. So much funny over at McSweeney’s here.

One day, I’ll submit a grant without the 11th hour...

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:22:03 -0700

One day, I’ll submit a grant without the 11th hour insanity. Until then, time to recover from that which preceded today at Friday at 5pm.

Edith Piaf, ‘Non Je Ne Regrette Rien’

Love. Love. Love!

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:18:17 -0700

Love. Love. Love!

I’d put this on my Christmas wish list but for this book,...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:37:37 -0700

I’d put this on my Christmas wish list but for this book, patience is not an option.

Michael Odaatje, The Cats Table (reviewed here).

Reading fiction increases your empathy

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:40:00 -0700

Reading fiction increases your empathy:

Sounds good to me.

I just made my grant deadline - and survived the first week -...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:44:13 -0700

I just made my grant deadline - and survived the first week - solo! Happy Friday!

"Ultimately, however, our personal moments of distress won’t matter much unless our government..."

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:13:57 -0700

“Ultimately, however, our personal moments of distress won’t matter much unless our government intervenes with occasional mentions of climate change in important speeches, or by passing nonbinding legislation on the subject. I implore you: Spend a couple minutes each year imagining yourself writing impassioned letters to your elected representatives demanding a federal cap on emissions.”

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The Onion: We Need To Do More When It Comes To Having Brief, Panicked Thoughts About Climate Change (here). This would be (even) funnier if it weren’t quite so true…

What to do with an abundance of CSA zucchini!

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:29:49 -0700

What to do with an abundance of CSA zucchini!:

This recipe just may save my abundant CSA squash from a composted fate.

Theoretical frameworks, methodological contributions, expected...

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:02:00 -0700

Theoretical frameworks, methodological contributions, expected ‘solutions’. So many Words. Words. Words. on this lovely sunny Saturday morn!

From the shelf, waiting to be read, in no particular order.

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:12:47 -0700

From the shelf, waiting to be read, in no particular order.

"One-third would give up sex, 22% would give up their toothbrushes (versus 40% of iPhone users, who..."

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:51:00 -0700

“One-third would give up sex, 22% would give up their toothbrushes (versus 40% of iPhone users, who evidently love their phone more than clean teeth) and 21% would rather go shoeless before separating from a mobile phone. Sixty-six percent sleep with their smartphones by their side.”

- iPhone over toothbrush? Gah!

LA Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/08/technology-addiction-chocolate-caffeine.html

“Female scientists at top universities not only have fewer...

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:41:02 -0700

“Female scientists at top universities not only have fewer children than their male colleagues but also are more likely to say that, due to the science career, they have fewer children than they want. Yet having fewer children than desired has a greater impact on men’s life satisfaction…”

Source: Ecklund EH, Lincoln AE (2011) Scientists Want More Children. PLoS ONE 6(8): e22590. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022590

Dogs at the Perimeter

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:04:32 -0700

Dogs at the Perimeter:

And then there is this accompaniment. All very intriguing…