What better combination than your dream Caribbean vacation combined with the most salient musical example of ennui in the last 40 years…

Among poets and literary figures, there was Alfred Lord Tennyson, among social thinkers, Thomas Malthus, among philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche, among earth scientists, Charles Lyell, and among biologists, Alfred Russel Wallace, who actually came up with the same idea of biological evolution, with supporting evidence gathered in Brazil and the East Indies, in the same year, 1858, as did Darwin.

a flashback post…

So yesterday I was at the gas station on route 16 getting coffee and putting gas in the car. After I was done I decide to clean out the car a bit as I’d collected a few coffee cups and such as I usually do (I’m a wittle bit messy heh). I walked [...]

For all my workaholic tendencies and ability to wallow in self pity for innumerable hours, I seem to always find time for some background TV. Lately I’ve taken to avoiding the news, my usual work/wallow backdrop, as I’ve come to have a sore spot when it comes to Politics and Policy. Todays selection brought with [...]

First of many playlists to entertain you while you work…or wallow in self pity…

an oasis from the vile obscenity of the human condition…

5)Run away to a country whose language you do not speak. This way you can delude yourself into believing everyone is telling you how very relevant your research interests are.

So it seems Flo Rida, of “Low” fame, likes those green beans at Boston Market as much as I do. On a recent trip south for the weekend, my roommate was desperate for a bathroom ( and I of course needed a cigarette break) so we pulled into the first rest stop on 90. Oddly [...]

your physical environment can give you quit a bit of insight on who you really are…