http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog Tue, 26 May 2009 02:16:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, " and go till you come to the end; then stop." -- From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll Friends, this is the end: I'm retiring Distances Between Ports. Fortunately, it's also the beginning: I'm launching The Science Essayist. Eventually the ... http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog/2009/05/25/then-stop/ What it is like, you see, is that feeling you get when you have—through several fluctuations of decision and neglect—let your hair grow too long, and it has taken to curling over your ears in a way that you dislike, and scratching the back of your neck so that you ... http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog/2009/05/14/gently-cut-loose/ I thought I would just put down here, readers-mine, since I do use this space as a kind of memory-capsule, and who knows—I may wish to remember this time when I am extremely old and ready to laugh about it—that 1) Bad Stuff is happening with work. The Global Economic ... http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog/2009/04/30/laid-out-flat/ Today I lay on my back in the sun and read. I swung on a a swing with such delight that a 13-year-old girl swinging languidly next to me was moved to utter to her friends, with an air of great disdain, "That girl really likes swinging, yo. She's enjoyin' herself!" I ... http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog/2009/04/24/sun-is-lif/ I've been a frequently absent host here at my own party for a while now, and dropping in to say hello to you all over these past few months I have felt a little more shy every time, trying out my voice just a little to see if it still ... http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog/2009/04/21/what-am-i-doing-here/ http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog/2009/04/13/finding-my-pizza-zen/ I'm pretty sure I lost my wedding ring last night. We went out for sushi, and I'm almost certain I was wearing it when we left the house, but when we unloaded the groceries we picked up on the way home it was no longer on my finger. It's possible ... http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog/2009/04/12/twist-of-fate/ Yesterday afternoon, sitting in the waning light of our living room while wet chunks of snow, rain, and hail fell from the sky, a sudden desire to hear a particular Simon and Garfunkel song came upon Ross, as it does; a half hour later he had the album in question ... http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog/2009/04/06/folk-rock/ On Thursday at the museum I worked on preparing a Yellow-Shafted Northern Flicker, which is a species of woodpecker that has the most amazing sunflower-golden coloration on the inside of its wings and tail feathers (there is a Red-Shafted variation that lives in the western United States, and has scarlet ... http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog/2009/04/04/mortification-of-the-flesh/ I'm not dead, I'm just out in the world. It's a sunny day, a blue sky day, a day for lying on your back on the grass; it's a Beatles day, a hop-skip-and-a-jump day, a day for singing down the street and smiling like every time you look around you ... http://sonic.wordnerd.org/blog/2009/04/01/here-there-and-everywhere/