More Eggers

The Stanford daily on the previously blogged Eggers event

green citizen

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Gloria handed me their brochure, suggesting that I dump our ever-expanding pile of dead computers, cell phones, and other momentary gadgetry on them. "Where is it, I wonder," I thought. I flipped it over.

At GreenCitizen, we want to make recycling electronics so easy that you'll make it a part of your everyday routine. For our part, we'll be working with the most trusted recyclers to ensure that the electronics you place in our hands will be stewarded to their safest disposal.

There's the faintest odor of euphemism lingering over that paragraph. So, you can imagine the conspiracy theory that formed in my mind when I flipped the brochure over and found the green citizen recycling point is immediately behind Fry's Electronics in Palo Alto.

Now I know where all those suspectly-shrinkwrapped "previously opened" boxes really come from. Someone dumped them in the trash behind FRY'S!!

Ha!

Tchaikovsky 5/4 waltz

Somewhere I've written down the music in the movie Minority Report, including something from T. that is written in 5/4 time. But the 2nd movement of the Pathetique symphony doesn't seem to be it.

What is it?

[OK, I found it—I guess it is that movement after all. People like to describe it as "undanceable," or "lopsided." Sort of like Tom Cruise himself.]

Warren Wilson College

The college "most leaning to the left" according to an article I just read.