Archive for March, 2006

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Today we took another jaunt to Boulder, and it’s super warm and spring-like, so it was very pleasant. Kathy had a few doctor’s visits and blood draws, and I did my dry-cleaning exchange and found some Velcro sticky tape at the store because Bonzo ate the rest of my previous supply.

A Nederland native came [...]

Fans

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

It turns out to be rather hard to find fans in Boulder in the wintertime. You know, those motorized doohickeys with blades that push air around? I went looking for several in November because I wanted to do some fooling around with the aquarium cooling. Unfortunately, none of the stores I checked [...]

Physical Intuition

Monday, March 27th, 2006

I had the great fortune of encountering several unintuitive physical realities during my travels last week. It so happens that I’m back on the road today, heading to Hartford, CT, but I thought I would take a moment while I wait for the airplane to share these curiousities with you.
The first is my amazing [...]

Productivity!

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

I slept forever today — until after noon, kind of on and off, as Kathy and the dogs made their rounds and kept climbing all over me. Fortunately, I have gotten really good at going back to sleep many, many times. (I once pressed my alarm clock snooze button a record 37 times [...]

Cubed

Friday, March 24th, 2006

Today I turned into a perfect cube. The last time I was a perfect cube, I was a third-grader. In fact, it’s very likely that it will only happen to me once more, and that will be in 37 more years! So I guess I’m 75% of the way there, which makes [...]

Tales from the Road

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Last night I returned to my hotel in San Francisco after an exhausting one-day stint to Seattle.  Since I’d awoken at 4:00am in order to make the trip, I was understandably a bit weary at 8:00pm as I stumbled in.  I had the interesting misfortune of ending up in an elevator, from which I needed [...]