best when viewed in low light

3.28.2010

Another spectacular technosynthesart project

by (the unbelievably brilliant) Elie Zananiri

it's called Scrape, and even the about page is totally over my head.

3.19.2010

Starship Troupers



If you're a nerd, and you haven't yet spent hours marveling at the exquisite detail and awesome scope of Starship Dimensions, you are so many light years away from cool, you may never get there.

Just kidding. Just go look.

3.09.2010

cuteness overloadextravaganzathon

I want to tango

I am just now recovering [read: making up on all the work I didn't do] from a music/dance-a-thon in Champaign Illinois [I know, right?] with my brother-from-another-mother.

Here's a summary - the BFAM picks me up in Indianapolis [do NOT get me started on the inadequacy of public transportation out here in the heartland] and we get to Champaign.

I find and buy the most glorious batwoman coat.



We go to hear a hypnotic violin & piano recital by the world's hottest violinist.



We after party.





We "work", frequently interspersed with first-spring-days outdoor breaks.







We play video games and eat kobe burgers.



We watch the lamest dance performance ever, no thanks to you Mark Morris. Ugh.

We tango with the world's hottest violinist.



We eat tons of sushi.

We run around outside some more.







We shake our asses at the nightclub. [it's sooo "ultra"]



We attend Indonesian Students Club biannual Culture Night [the BFAM performs in said event].





Here's what I got out of the weekend: a killer coat.
Here's what I want to do A LOT MORE OF: tango!

Progress Quotas

Look, when systemic incentives exist, and the (inadvertent) result of those incentives is to marginalize, devalue, and disenfranchise groups of people, then you gotta do what you gotta do to make change.

Quotas are no way to run a business/government/society, but they DO get the job done.

The only thing that is upsetting and offensive about India's new regulation to reserve 1/3 of all legislative seats for women is that ONLY INDIA IS DOING IT!

Who's democratic now, hunh?

In the past...