Ashburn (just a few artsy-fartsy shots that were still in the camera).
Austin (will be adding to these regularly).
A Horde of Fuzzy Pantses (to steal K2’s title).
VVS 1968-71 (pics from my misspent youth).
Walnut Creek (which runs behind the empty lot next door to us).
Categories: this daily life
If the font looks too large or small on your screen, it may be my coding and it may be your browser. I’ve noticed Safari is making the general text (in posts) look half the size I’d intended, while Firefox seems to be the right size, and who knows what IE is doing (will check [...]
Categories: look & feel
Well, the deed is done, the die is cast…
GOV 312L – Issues and Policies in American Government: Founding Principles
PHL 349 – History of Medieval/Renaissance Philosophy
RS 373 – Intro to Comparative Religion
RS 679HA – Honors Tutorial Course
Categories: edjukashun
(This is actually from last year – I was too lazy to try to figure out how to backdate this post.)
Establishing shot
Note the distance from the back door is only about 20 feet, and from the edge of the patio all of 6 or 7. The blobs on the glass door are the tiny snails [...]
Categories: wild kingdom
If I know that your book has sloppy summarizing and outright errors in the areas in which I have some knowledge, it’s pretty damn hard for me to trust you on subjects where I don’t. Most recent culprit: The Magic Circle of Rudolph II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague, by Peter Marshall. Too bad, [...]
Categories: research
Just got word my proposal for a Senior Honors Thesis has been approved. This is a 60-80 page paper that will be researched and written over the next two semesters as part of my undergraduate program.
Here’s what I’ll be working on:
Dr. John Dee, Sir Edward Kelly, and Authorship of the ‘Angelic Conversations’
This paper will [...]
Categories: edjukashun, research
Apparently one of the reasons the spiny lizards thrive at our place is because the harvester ant colonies are so extensive.
Personally, I’d like to have more lizards and fewer ants, because despite the fact that they keep the vegetation down in their areas, they like to tunnel right next to — and possibly under??? — [...]
Categories: wild kingdom
Somewhere there’s a closing div that FFX wants and IE7 doesn’t, so if you’re looking at this in IE6/IE7 then you’re probably seeing the sidebar menu… somewhere down at the bottom, below all entries. I’ll fix it as soon as I can get the Mac set up side-by-side with a IE machine, and then start [...]
Categories: interfaces