Author: theazureshadow

Tim Pratt, New Literary Movement (posted by John Scalzi in his month of writers series). It\’s short, it\’s hilarious. Read it.

I didn\’t get a chance to get online in London (besides a quick, two minute e-mail to my parents and to Sarah saying that I\’d made it that far at least), and it took a while to get internet access here at the University of East Anglia. But never fear, I am here, and I…

Well, I\’m sitting in the Portland Airport, waiting for my flight (delayed about an hour, so far). I\’m off to London to study abroad, but first I have to live in airports for a while. I wasn\’t able to get a good deal on a direct flight, and all the multi-stage flights were either an…

No offense to all you friendly Portland-people out there, but the thing I like most about being back in Portland is the rain.

Just took my first final, for Honors Economics. On it was the following question: Draw a Laffer curve for the relationship between tax rate and actual tax revenue. EXPLAIN why it looks that way. I skipped class for couple weeks once, and at least once a week throughout the term. I had no idea what…

I stayed up until 4:00 last night reading Tom Stoppard\’s Arcadia. It is amazing, and moving. I was profoundly affected by the time I finished. Tom Stoppard is by far my favorite playwright, but I hadn\’t read Arcadia since we put it on during my sophomore year of high school. I had been meaning to…

The assignment was to use the following elements in a story. We didn\’t have to use all of them, but I did anyway. theme: a good death objects: spaceship, shoe, watch, mirror, antique iron dialogue: \”Lose the hat.\” \”Where d\’you come from?\” \”Don\’t you hate it when that happens?\” version 1 The Lost Cause was…

Here is a comparison of the original with an edited version and a version where I applied a colored gradient to it.

I have to say, Sarah has stunning eyes. Especially in natural morning light. No editing in this photo.