I really like it here

That'll be all for now.

The BBC is amazing

I'm stressed as all get out (as my good friend, who unrelatedly happens to be a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce would say), but I can't help but take study breaks using the Internet.

One of my less guilty pleasures is the BBC, which is also my main source of news these days. CNN is very US-centric, I find, and Czech Republic's economic paper, though worth reading for the brilliant commentary pieces from a family friend, usually runs headlines like "Our parliament is doing silly things again, make it stop" and "It might be a bit cold tommorrow, wear a hat" and so is more of a way to feel connected to home than a news source.

The BBC, however, has:
-An Ian McKellen hiphop video involving shakespeare
-Stalin's (?) lewd comments on various form sketches
-the most amazing octopus video you will ever see

As well as real news from parts of the world other than New England and the Middle East!

(I recognize that this makes me sound like a pretentious news snob. This is not the case. I am not nearly as articulate about modern policy and issues as I would like to be, so I'm trying to use the BBC to catch up to the rest of the world. So in fact, it is I who is behind.)

Small shapes interact within. They bind and unbind, they chemically form and reform and deform, suppress, promote, activate. Entities without thought or knowledge of their own significance, known only by an alphabet soup of numbers and letters and names like polycomb and holoenzyme. Their complexity is beyond any imagining and yet all of them are neccessary for the most basic existence of that which we know as humanity. We discovered one of the most crucial regulating mechanisms in 2001. This is a discovery akin to looking at the colour wheel and just now noticing purple.

Nothing is known, the potential is infinite.

This shit is trippy, man.

You know what else is trippy (and looks excellent?)
This:


Terry Gilliam! Overblown magnificence!

We were home.

We played the Fillmore for the first time the weekend before the Human Be-In. It was the Young Rascals, Sopwith Camel and that group from LA that nobody knows... - The Doors. The place was packed. We went onstage and opened with 'When the Music's Over.' I had my left and right hands playing contrapuntal melodies against one another on the keyboard. San francisco had never heard this kind of music before... having taken a little toke of a joint before going on, I of course had the power of the universe in my right hand. I was at once the god of love and the god of destruction... I played and played and played and Jim started screaming into the microphone and the rest of hte band kicked in and the audience let out this simultaneous roar of approval. The Doors and San Francisco had a love affair from that moment on. We were home.

Ray Manzarek

Coeur de Pirate

Mais il m'aime encore, et je t'aime un peu plus fort...



The official clip is a bit better.

To alleviate finals, I've been listening to Coeur de Pirate instead of studying - what was it? (checks slide). Ah, yes, spliceosome activity in intron excision and posttranscriptional modification of eukaryotic mRNA. That was what it was.

Man, what's with the chick music?
First Regina Spektor.
Then Emmy the Great.
Now this.
What next?

If you like words you may like

this site.

If you like photos of old rock stars, people, lovers, and friends you may like

this site

If you like math you may like

this site

If you like positive people you may like

this

If you like cute little animals you may like

this site

If you like books you may like

this site

If you like music you may like

this site

And if you like me, then I like you.

Monty Python and the archetypical British sexual repression

Today I met a baby girl named Alaska

and skied through the streets and drank wine out of Mason jars.
(I also did multivariate calculus for 11 hours.)

aprikat

Silliness to alleviate exam period stress.

SILLY!

Cat Empire was pretty wonderful. The morning 7 mile run to alleviate the effects of Cat Empire was also pretty wonderful.

sweeping the city

Looking forward to it indeed.