Category: Life

“There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men.” — Heinrich Heine (noted in my journal, March, 2008) Hubris Belligerent self-confidence is unpalatable, especially when unfounded. And it ruins your bedside manner–you!, the doctor on call in lieu of Dr. Gravitas*, my reliable (if milquetoast) GI. You were a stroke of bad luck [...]

I spent the first half of February 2008 waiting to be disemboweled, which is a strange state of affairs. As such you might imagine I’d remember the time vividly, but I struggle to recall much beyond the thin, pink twilight walks from office to home, punctuated a bit more often than usual by a trip [...]

Rare Snow Covers Portland : Natural Hazards: “This satellite image of the snow covering Oregon was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on December 16. The highest concentrations are in the Willamette River valley and on the Columbia Plateau east of the Cascade Mountains.” download large image (4 MB, [...]

The Worst Thing that Ever Happened to Me, The Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me 2008 started out with one of those moments that one’s life pivots around, that one might reference as when everything changed. Before it: terror of my own devising. After it: a senescent, lessening terror based on real events and [...]

In photos. Officially the most snowfall since 1968 and it’s still going. It won’t die.

I cannot recall it being as frigid and treacherous in Portland for so many days in a row–ever, actually. For over a week it’s been a snow-sleet-ice-hailing killstorm. Yesterday things took a turn for the worse and now we have seven or so inches of snow under half an inch of ice under what looks [...]

Let me start with self-buttressing before I move on to shame, of which there is plenty. It started well, my life, with respect to math. There were no problems. To the contrary, I spent much of my elementary school time off on my own during math sessions because they had run out of new concepts [...]

Here it is, your obligatory “I’m not dead” post. Yeah, so I was traveling there for about thirteen days. I kept meaning to make a “Hi from Tahoe” or “Hi from San Francisco” or a “Hi from Arroyo Grande” post but obstacles kept heaving themselves at me from various angles. Let it suffice to say [...]

Angela took a lovely photo of Autumn in Las Vegas, which you can see here. This is my stylized response. Again, I didn’t take this photo, I just edited it.