life & times

Now that the journey to London is at an end, this blog will be going into an indefinite hibernation. Keep your eyes peeled for new content a...

My system and flash drive recently contracted a worm under the name of UFO.exe. These instructions were most helpful. Hopefully search en...

I went to my first ever football match, which is probably also one of less than a dozen sporting events I've attended. The teams were Q...

It brings me much sorrow to report the passing of Percival, a hamster Claire adopted so recently that he had yet to make an appearance in th...

Having never gone paintballing before, I couldn't pass up a chance to try it out for a mere £10 on a school-subsidized trip to Paintzone...

I completed my cycle of monthly Shakespearean plays with King Lear , produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for the Courtyard Theatre an...

Tonight marked the lighting of Oxford Street, which is home to many of the largest and most lavish department stores (Harrod's being not...

This past summer I purchased V-Ray for Rhino directly from the programmers, and the software was delivered not through the mail, but throug...

Back in my sophomore year of college (coincidentally the last year of my blogless existence), I worked as a resident assistant in Dolliver H...

One of the comforts of home I miss most is a decent washer and dryer. Washers in particular have been foul things, made dirty by careless u...

Our old ancient ancestors, as we read in the first chapter of Guinness's, were partial to the running stream. —Lenehan in James Joyce...

Our short visit to Dublin was specifically timed so that we could attend a show by Iron & Wine , a band in which Chris and Beth both had...