as the sunlight breaks the haze to touch your skin

The first step is admitting you have a problem: I am an Asimov junkie. I have always liked stuff like I, Robot and Foundation's Edge, but recently I realized I had never read his 'Empire' novels. So I went on eBay and got them for a ridiculously low price. That was a set of five books and I have read them all. But it doesn't even stop there. There are a couple of used bookstores downtown and they have old Asimov collections. I just bought one today, I have gotten at least two others that way, and I know I left at least one more sitting on the shelf in the store. It's true that the books tend to be kind of thin so I can burn through them pretty quickly, but the man was prolific. This sort of thing makes writing electronics lab reports very difficult to accomplish.

googled

Well I held out as long as I could, but Google finally refused to let me log in until I had migrated to something or other. I don't like messing with stuff that is working fine as it is.

cached

A pretty quiet weekend. Nothing got done on Friday of course, but yesterday I did 2/3 of my grading and I've finished the computational physics assignment that isn't due until Friday. I decided to take a short break and found another geocache, but I paid the price - I dropped my camera and now most of the buttons don't work, and the inside may smell of burnt plastic. Damn.

forget what they said in soho

It was nice out this weekend so today I tried some easy geocaching. Although it wasn't too cold outside it was still pretty muddy, and one of the geocaches was amidst blackberry bushes and some old barbed wire and I ended up having to pull some thorns out when I got home. On the plus side, this was really the first time I've experimented with the new GPS software's street navigation, and that worked out pretty well. It was much easier being given roads than having to suffice with an arrow and a distance.

i think about the implications

I love getting stuff in the mail. Today was one of those days. I got a bunch of stuff from eBay, several Asimov books I haven't read (and a third copy of I, Robot) and more red pens than I could possible have need for in my last term as a TA.

Today was also a partial snow day - classes before 11AM or after 5PM were canceled. Sadly I don't think that's likely to repeat tomorrow.

amazon.lame

I was going through old email and found that since 2003 I requested not once but several times for Amazon.com to notify me if and when "The Fountainhead" ever became available on DVD, and when it finally came out last November they never did. Way to drop the ball on that one, Amazon.com.

happy new yar

2006 was really just a year I needed to pass through to get from 2005 to 2007. This year should be big for me though.