It’s difficult for me to read anything dense if there is music or other auditory distraction. Sometimes I’ll play nature sounds to drown out other sounds. Ocean and Storm are my favorites.
For writing, however, music is essential. Somehow having music playing entertains some over-analytical and busy part of my brain that gets in the […]

Pretty much all my attention is going to:
a) reading about classification, categorization, and representation
b) working on a clump of 16 films that suddenly fell into my lap all at once for the Folkstreams.net project
I’ve always liked henna/mehndi art. I used to do it a little, and I designed a line of tshirts inspired by the […]

Local people!
It has come to my attention that not everyone knows the joys of LOCOPOPS and their new Chapel Hill location. Inspired by paletas, Locopops serves one thing–POPSICLES!!!
Today I went and had three popsicles in the following flavors:

Mexican gazpacho - made with pineapple, jimica, jalapeno, and cucumber. It was rather mildly flavored, except for theheat […]

My (quite new) laptop didn’t want to start up this morning. So instead of working on going through all the abstracts I downloaded yesterday, I’m running diagnostics on the computer. All crossable appendages crossed.
That’s today’s productivity killer.
Yesterday’s was using the record export features of ISI’s citation databases to tranfer all those records I should be […]