It’s been a week at the new job. What’s the verdict? It’s awesome. It’s like working at FEMA, minus the metro ride and 12 hour shifts. I’m part of a team of three GIS people on site, and we’re the “go to” people when maps are needed. So I’ll be making a large variety [...]

John Roberts, Bush’s nominee for Supreme Court justice, approved of the arrest of a 12-year old girl for eating a french fry in a DC Metrorail station. What does this say about the way he interprets the Constitution? (very interesting Salon article).

We all know money doesn’t buy you happiness, and neither does intelligence. So, what does?
Answer here
Can I get an “amen” to that? :)
I love it when science backs the personal theories I hold dear.
Baby bluebirds from Sunday!

They look rather dead, but I swear that’s an illusion. They’re alive and hungry at about 4 days [...]

This is my last week at Baker. Starting next Monday I will be working at this place. It’s been in the works for awhile, but I didn’t want to announce it publicly until everybody at work knew. And they do. It’s already turned into more of “deal” than I would have liked it to be. [...]

I read this book of Josh’s yesterday that explained what the computer is doing when I make fractal images. It’s pretty awesome. If I can actually explain this, it’ll be more awesome! It starts out with a grid where every pixel is an (x,y) coordinate signifying a complex number. A complex number is one that [...]

Yesterday, I started reading the Apocrypha. I’ve been meaning to for some time. I’m in Maccabees now, which is pretty boring, so I’m skimming. It’s like Kings and Chronicles all over again. I enjoy reading about battles about as much as I enjoy watching them in movies (that is, very little). But Wisdom of Solomon [...]

I took a nice four day weekend and I saw my dad on the 4th of July. I made him a mix CD of songs that I like because of him. When I was a kid I’d spend the endless summer days rifling through his record collection. I developed an appreciation for (in order of [...]