Now that my facebook is dead…

I am updating this blog, my blog, again. Posts to look forward to:

1. The academic job search (and how / why it sucks)
2. A fabulous “labor day” vacation in New Orleans
3. Faster Mustache 2009 (and how my team is going to win it) (incidentally, the last post on this blog was results from Faster Mustache 2008, the greatest urban bike relay in the world).
4. Georgia Cyclocross season 2009 (and how the Loosenuts race team is going to dominate it)
5. Go (and Go-Moku) and why I love it more than chess
6. An awesome poll (polls are a new feature on wordpress)

And since no one actually follows this blog, mostly it will be me talking to myself again, not a healthy thing.

This is a plug for the Bike Athens Blog, where my BRP time lapse video is posted today.

Happy Towel Day: http://www.towelday.kojv.net/

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency came up in the blogosphere recently because, I guess, a “radio” production of said book is being made by some Swedes on the internet. Google book title + podcast to find it. I really enjoyed this book, though it was quite hard to follow the whole thing. Alot of effort.

On another book note, I’m reading Ian MacDonald’s new book called “Brasyl”. This is marketed as post-cyberpunk sci-fi, or something like that. The first 30 pages are somewhat boring and filled with all kinds of words I don’t understand (because they’re Brazilian slang or Portuguese?), but it is getting better. Maybe its just that I don’t like the first story so much. There are two more in the book apparently.

In place of a blogrole, I prefer to just list the blogs I’m reading at the moment.

Here is a list (google the keyword to find the feed).

1. Kotaku
2. Xbox-Scene
3. XKCD Web comic
4. TextMate Blog
5. Ars Mathematica
6. Not Even Wrong (Physics/Math)
7. What’s New (T. Tao’s blog)
8. Collision Detection (games, science, squids)
9. Feelgood Librarian (personal friend)
10. Boing-Boing
11. Slashdot
12. Lifehacker
13. Compiler (wired blog)
14. Google Sightseeing