Well, obviously, I wasn’t able to make it to the theological symposium on the Analogia Entis. In being buried underneath thesis work, I kind of forgot about it, which is probably for the best. It’s starting today and goes to Sunday. Anyway, aside from Joel Garver, did anybody else go? I’d love to hear a report.
For those that actually hop over to my blog to read (and not just RSS), I’ve updated a few things. I had to tweak the current theme to put the ‘pages’ back into the header (about me, papers, thesis reading books, etc.). I also added a few feeds in the sidebar: one to my dorky Facebook status updates, and one to my Tumblr blog of things I’ve been reading/watching lately.
Music-wise, I’ve been dipping back into my CD collection and listening to things that I haven’t listened to in quite some time to help keep me stimulated during the writing process:
- Squarepusher – Big Loada
- Alice in Chains – Unplugged (probably one of my favorite albums of all time, actually. where were you?!)
- VNV Nation – Matter + Form (hands-down my favorite VNVN album but for some reason it fell out of my usual rotation.)
- Mayfairgrin – Equine Noir: The Ambient Selections (probably my favorite moody ambient album ever. you can hop over to my last.fm page and see how many times I’ve listened to this gem in the past few years.)
- 30 Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie (now, I understand why a lot of people don’t like this band as it is one of the quintessential emo rock bands, but I absolutely love this album and really think Jared Leto’s voice is awesome. I usually play this on repeat after 11pm when things start to drag for me during paper writing.)
- Nirvana – Nevermind and In Utero (just classic 90′s fun)
- Apoptygma Berzerk – Welcome to Earth and Harmonizer (still not a fan of their stuff post-Harmonizer though… )
Of all the April Fool’s gags I saw online, this one was probably my favorite: World of Warcraft: Molten Core.
I recently got new glasses. The last time I got a pair of corrective lenses was my freshman year of highschool. I had contacts for a while after that and used them for a while but got lazy. I can now see road signs!
Minimal update: I fixed a grip of typos in this post… I was up till 4am last night so I am a bit out of it.
Good luck with the thesis writing! How long does it have to be? When you get it finished I’d love to read it.
Michael, thanks. 80-120 pages is the range. I forget if there is an actual word count range, though, which would make more sense.
Did you really dip into your old CD collection? Or your old ripped-to-mp3-in-iTunes collection? Just curious if you (ahem) are you still using optical media.
P.S. I much enjoyed Google’s Future Search–”tomorrow’s web today.”
Yes, my CD collection.
i can’t remember. CDs are, like, round, right…?
I’m too cheap for music. It’s just me and my pandora radio.
I’ve actually grown a bit fond of Apoptygma’s Black EP, although it is definitely different than their other stuff. Have you heard Rokysopp’s CD “The Understanding”? Along with Melody AM, it’s another good chill album that I tend to throw on when I’m writing / coding.
Drew, never heard of Rokysopp or Melody AM… I’ll have to check ‘em out — thanks!
Geoff, I need to use Pandora more… I tried it a long time ago but it’s been a while.