LA Fun

So now that Stephanie is living down here (haha I have stolen her from the grips of nor cal, I am victorious) I'm going to start doing things, actual social things. She has failed as Chris's Official Adventure Planner, so thus it's up to me. Now I normally fail at coming up with things to do, but here are a few of my plans.

The Great Southern California Library Tour of 2008
Because libraries are fun!
LA Central Library: All of the fun of downtown and hobos, plus old time LA architecture, $1 used books, and 10 bazillion library books
Pasadena Public Library: All of the charm of old town Pasadena + books
Santa Monica Library : All of the fun of crazy Santa Monica in a nice and quite library

Part 1 of fun looking hiking trails: Red Rock

Brand Blvd, fun fun fun.
They have a bunch of restaurants and shops here, and it's not quite as sleazy as somewhere like Venice. There's not a ton here, but there is enough. Parking can be a pain on the weekend, but it's doable.
I really like the Brand Blvd Bookstore and Mystery and Imagination Bookstore, the most awesome Science Fiction Bookstore I've ever been to.

Griffith Observatory: Always a classic, plus I haven't been here since it was redone.

LACMA Free Jazz Fridays: We already went to this once and it was fun.

Gasp! What is this? A blog? No, Never.

So I know this is a shocker, but I'm acutally making a blog entry. I'm sort of doing this so I remember some nifty web sites without having to keep 10,000 tabs open in firefox (yes I have a disease, it's a tab addition, I think they call it tab-erculous).

So the first website is http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
Basically it's a collection of people's bitchy notes, what's not to love.

Next up is http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/sonnets/sonnet_view.php?range=view%20range&sonnetrange1=127&sonnetrange2=154
I'm a fan of the Shakespearean Sonnets. They make me happy. Stumble upon made may day when they came up.

Sigh for the death of freedom of speech. Even at the worlds foremost law school.
http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/what-you-cant-say-at-harvard-law-school/?scp=1&sq=private%20school%20book&st=cse

Thanks to Will Wheton I now understand why steampunk stuff is cool.
http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/?p=928

Well there we go, hopefully I will start to make this a regular thing.

Why not?

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebs

The Stir Stick?

Okay so I get why I look like all the dudes with glasses, but Calista Flockhart? Honestly? The stir stick? Well I guess at least I get to be with Harrison Ford.

The Wide World of Sleep

So I feel like I haven't slept well in a month. Last night was all right but outside of that I just haven't been sleeping well. I have come to accept that my sleep patterns are weird but I think my body is trying to mess with me. I'm a night owl so I tend to not go to sleep until late anyway. I really like sleep, but it doesn't always like me.

I think it's because my body just wants to sleep in all day and as much as I'd like that I can't let it. Also sometimes I just have bad sleep nights where I either can't sleep or keep waking up. This happens at least once a week but for the last few weeks they have been growing more frequent. I don't know why. I don't think it's stress, because let's face it I don't worry about school, my future, or anything really.

Any ideas?

She Blinded Me With Science

In keeping with my new motivation to keep this blog updated I'm going to do my first real post of hopefully many more to come, I doubt it though.

I've always kind of wondered what would have happened if I had been a science major, or at least if I had taken Chemistry my freshman year and had the possibility of taking real science classes. I've always thought that I would have like mechanical engineering or some such thing, I mean I would have been abysmal at it but still. I'm happy to get out of Santa Cruz in 3 years and I wouldn't have traded my time abroad for anything but still I 'm curious. I'm still interested in cutting edge science and I like to read science magazines when I can. I always hope I'll be able to write something using the ideas or do some such thing.

In that spirit here is a moment of retro goodness.

I live, the World Cares Little

So I suck at updating this, I know this. Whenever I start a new project like this I have great ideas and great intentions, yet an hour later I give up on them when the next shinny thing comes along. In an attempt to try and finish things I start I'm going to post regularly. The likely hood that this will last beyond say a week isn't good. Though if that does happen this might just stick around for awhile longer.