oopsie's blog

need to practice...

http://kottke.org/10/07/turf-dancing-in-the-rain

u rah rah wi-i-i-sco-on-son

a big drunk mob just gathered on the steps of the capitol, thursday night at 11pm, and sang the UW alma mater before heading back down state street.  must be summer!  

i will miss madison a lot, but i won't have to miss J anymore!

the lama and obama

"China, which believes that shunning the exiled Tibetan monk should be a basic principle of international relations, was quick to denounce the meeting."
(from huffpo today)

stevens

Justice John Paul Stevens, writing in dissent of the Court's ruling that no distinctions can be made between individuals and corporations who donate to political campaigns: 

“While American democracy is imperfect,” he wrote, “few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.”

it's precisely the one-sidedness that's the issue

From kottke.org:

David Attenborough, the voice of several thousand hours of nature films, gets hate mail from viewers who believe he should be crediting God for nature's beauty.

Telling the magazine that he was asked why he did not give "credit" to God, Attenborough added: "They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator."

new skin

everybody always says how awesome new skin is for cuts and blisters.  but it's not.  i once put the waterproof, painful stuff on a big scrape, but it didn't keep the water out, and then everything got horribly infected beneath a dried, apparently unremovable new skin barrier.  i've tried it on heel blisters, too, but it just seems to rub off and then everything bleeds everywhere, right in the middle of the meeting.  (nothing makes me feel more professional than a colleague pointing out my bleeding foot).  tonight, i scraped the outside part of my thumb, real good.  after a few band-aids didn't last at all (awkward position, sweaty hands), i realized that maybe THIS is what new skin was BORN for!  it's always bowlers and rowers who praise it, anyway, so maybe HANDS are its destiny!

so i washed it again and dried it again and made sure it wasn't weeping, and put on two nice coats of acetone-and-polymer.  but somehow i now have a plasticky new skin bubble filled with nice red blood on my thumb.  i want to throw the stuff away, but i will probably keep giving it one more chance.  seems like such a good idea.

time warp

my laptop believes that it lives in the midwest, as does my gcalendar.  but *I* am frequently located on the east coast.  so when my computer tells me that it is 1am and way past time to go to bed, it is actually 2am and way-way past time to go to bed.  i suppose i can't entirely blame the computer for my bad habits, but it certainly isn't helping.

12k

seriously? 12k?  and what exactly is my cut?

profession

my new roomie always has the tv on.  he doesn't even always turn it off when he goes to sleep, because he likes to fall asleep in front of it.  but tonight when i came home.....the tv was off!  and good music was playing!  and the lights were lower!  AND there was a pair of pumps in the kitchen! 

so i quickly and quietly made my way upstairs. 

i could hear some talking downstairs, so i thought it was safe to go to the kitchen. but, while i was washing my bowl, i heard him professing his love indirectly, like this: "it's so cool, like, where i am in my life right now, and where you are, like there's no pressure, and we can just be friends, like no pressure.  and you're my best friend.  i mean, we can just hang out, and smoke a bowl in the garage, and it's cool."

so i went back upstairs, quickly and quietly.

chillz

oh man.  the temperature is not expected to exceed 70 F for the next TEN DAYS.  might as well say EIGHT MONTHS.