April 12th, 2010

Has anyone been to McDonald’s lately?  There is a janky (read: crappy old) McDonald’s near my place in The Hague.  I have been known to stop in on the way home from teaching flamenco for some high-sugar/protein/fat refueling.   I’m not a McDonald’s snob.  Or a junk food snob at all.  I think if you [...]

March 7th, 2010

Hey, Nicole, what did you do this weekend?
I cleared out all the paperwork from my thesis:

And this is just the scrap – destined to become kitty litter liner.  The pile of articles (which I’m keeping) is easily just as high.  Easily.
Nicfucius says: Save a forest: kill a grad student.

June 17th, 2009

I had a bit of a problem with the latest version of WordPress, the open source (i.e., FREE) application that this blog is run on.  I know we live in a culture where NEWER = BETTER, but I’m here to tell you that that ain’t always the way.  As, I’m sure, any Vista user [...]