There’s a concept called flow in pop psychology. It’s what happens when athletes achieve the singular focus required to achieve superhuman feats. It’s what happens when chess players drift away so completely into the world of knights and pawns that they can play a brilliant move without really knowing why.
It’s what happens when [...]
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Flowbama
03Jun08Cory Doctorow on art
30May08from here:
“It’s the 21st century, there’s not going to be a year in which it’s harder to copy than this year; there’s not going to be a day in which it’s harder to copy than this day; from now on. Right? If copying gets harder, it’s because of a nuclear holocaust. There’s nothing else that’s [...]
Friday is Gender Buffet day at the Women’s Center. Usually the discussion is pretty inspired and we end up lingering afterward and snacking and chating about feminism and art and gender and love and whatever else. We got to talking about valentine’s day, and I offered that I felt the day was really [...]
Photo Update
27Jan07My computer is not importing photos lately, so I always end up saving them up and then posting them all at once from school. And then I have to write a big, rambly blog entry. But whatever.
Last week it was Kaya’s birthday and I made Falafel for her birthday dinner. Everything from [...]
Weekend
16Jan07Here’s a bit of a recap, with photos.
Dinner tonight: Aloo Gobi
It was quite a weekend. Friday was the Cognitive Science Happy Hour, wherein we stood outside in the freezing cold making small talk. Met some new folks from Sociology I think. These things run together…
Saturday morning woke up at 5:00am, Paul picked [...]
