odd things

September 12, 2002

On the way to work this morning, I saw three dead Canada geese on Rt 2A, each one with an orange cone marking the location. Did the DPW come around placing cones so animal control could find them and test them for West Nile?

Walking back to my car after tonight's meeting in Central Square, a gingko leaf landed on the sidewalk in front of me. It's very windy tonight so it's not so odd to see leaves on the sidewalk - besides that it's almost fall. However, when I looked around I saw a bunch of zelkova trees and a decrepit looking oak - no gingkos anywhere close. I wonder where it blew there from.

All afternoon and evening I kept dropping off to sleep and jerking awake. I even dropped off to sleep in the meeting and jerked back awake seconds before I would have fallen off my chair. Later tonight I was listening to a BBC news story about the diamond trade while apparently asleep and merging it with some kind of Infiniband programming interface that made perfect sense. I jerked awake and scared Wilbur off of the bed, then said aloud to no one in particular "Wow, that was weird."

Today's Reading
Birds of Siberia by Henry Seebohm, After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

This Year's Reading
2002 Book List