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I won�0�9t pretend to be a jazz aficionado, and I will try to avoid the self-righteous tone of so many music critics. I know very little about jazz music, especially the music theory behind the genre. But I do like Charles Mingus.

I started listening to jazz my senior year of high school. Whenever I was […]

The following books are lying beside my bed:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Emergence by Steven Johnson
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

It’s snowing outside right now–big wet flakes. I’m sitting in the computer lab, which is on the third floor of the library. Out the window, I can see the snowflakes balancing on the tops of tree branches. Snow on trees is particularly beautiful. Occassionally, enough snow piles up on a branch to cause a clump […]

Today was a good day. Technically, I mean yesterday was a good day. But since I was awake during the date change, it still feels like the same day. After leaving the apartment at 9:00AM, I did not return until 12:30AM. I went to computer programming class, French class, and watched Jerry Springer in the […]

New Year Resolutions
I have three New Year resolutions. They are to stop eating red meat, to stop biting my cuticles, and to drink coffee instead of lattes. I’ve decided not to eat red meat because it’s unhealthy compared to white meat or vegetarian diets. Already, I eat very little red meat, so it’s not a […]