Archive for July, 2002

two dreams

Sunday, July 28th, 2002

One:
I am at a restaurant with S., a friend who lives down the street from me (and from whom I haven’t heard in a couple of weeks). The restaurant is a buffet (I usually dislike buffets). The restaurant is fairly crowded, and sitting next to us are two women, a mother in her [...]

the lit mag rant

Wednesday, July 24th, 2002

Things that I think fatally undermine online literary magazines:

Rampant nepotism and favoritism (read: in-breeding)
Lack of literary standards (relates to number 1)
Lack of any real knowledge of literature (relates to number 2)
Poor design and content management
Preference of the dark, sexual and/or shocking over actual good poetry
Lack of professionalism with regard [...]

sitting around in Minkowski space, bored

Wednesday, July 24th, 2002

For what it’s worth, I wrote a simple calculator for special relativity energy-mass equivalence (E=mc2). I thought about writing a short tutorial on special relativity, but there are piles of them out there already.

adv: you may have won something! but probably not

Saturday, July 13th, 2002

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must. get. life.

Friday, July 12th, 2002

Fell asleep in front of the computer last night. Well, this morning, really. I am a major loser.
Last night (er, this morning) I dreamt someone gave me a love letter concealed in a half-deflated balloon. The balloon was bright yellow, and the letter was parchment brown. I had another dream in [...]

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