Archives for August 2008:

Three Links About Starcraft

Aug 31, 2008 in , , , , with no comments

1. A writeup about Starcraft and the community portal SC2GG.com in Escapist Magazine, a gaming/digital culture e-publication. The author identifies himself as an English-speaking, American-born Chinese “artist’s soul living in an engineer’s mind.” Which probably explains why his article seems to accomplish what I tried to do earlier on this blog. At one point, the [...]

Mt. Katahdin and Kayaking

Aug 30, 2008 in , , , , , with 2 comments

Took a day-hike yesterday with my friend Bryan on Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park in Maine. Kayaking photos are from Bryan’s camp on a lake and marsh near Lee, Maine.

In the marshes at sunset.

Nearing the summit on Katahdin.

Vice President I’d Like to Friend

You know, like on Facebook.

Apparently somebody registered VPILF.com 2 years ago, and I bet you equally appropriate t-shirts (Yulia Tymoshenko anyone?) will be out faster you can say the word “sexism.”

Dance Party in The Balkans

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Got wind of an electronic outfit, Alaska in Winter, and took a listen to their debut album Dance Party in the Balkans. The title is a little bit confusing, because this could only count as a “dance party” if you were above the Arctic circle with a bunch of [...]

Old News: Poincaré Conjecture

Ran across a New Yorker writeup on the story of how Grigory Perelman proved the Poincaré Conjecture, a math problem that has been unsolved for about a century, and is something like this decade’s Fermat’s Last Theorem. This article was in a book–Best American Science Writing of 2007–that I randomly plucked off the bookshelf of [...]