TASP 2003 at UT Austin: The Mystery of Creativity



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Wednesday, December 10, 2003
okay, as you all can see in your inboxes, figured out a new setup for the audioblogging which allows us a whole five minutes. yay, tasper voices - and music!

gah so much to do before friday, so little motivation. i miss you all immensely, and invite any of you who can scam your way to the left coast to my house, jan 3rd-6th. tara will be here and there will be untold tasper debauchery which i know you all want a slice of. aw, remember our short-lived attempts to counteract the ridiculous male homoeroticism with hot girl-on-girl action? and the phallic-free porch? *tear*

speaking of which, maxipad suitees (heeheehee susan), yesterday i was home sick and ate nothing all day except for meringues and pirate's booty. THAR BE GOOD. dude everything reminds me of tasp. like it's raining here which reminds me of that day early on, natashia, when we gorged ourselves at the bookstore, and then got caught in the rain, and made jamie pick us up at the jack-in-the-box - and of course by the time he arrived the rain had stopped. or the other day i was on a run (i'm always running, dammit) and i thought of how i tried to go on a run like the first morning of tasp, and a bunch of you gamely volunteered to come along - and all of you peeling off one by one, until by virtue of my awesome athletic prowess (what?) i had shook all of you except for brian. and then aimee and jared got lost! oh man good times good times.

okay in a less, well, stupid tasp-related vein, i've stumbled across a few things on the internet about our favorite mysterious subject, her fickle majesty creativity. first, an article about creativity and savant syndrome. second, a very intriguing little gadget - the "cybernetic poet," a fairly sophisticated computer poetry generator. it's fun to fiddle with the downloadable version. it also seems vaguely unsavory - i'm sure there are lots of interesting issues raised by the whole concept, all of which i'm too dense to handle. anyone? and, finally, as i already shared with alex, the divine mr. picassohead. hours of modernist fun.

i'm trying to (and pretty much succeeding in) denying the fact that i'm going to be running a marathon on sunday. 5am hawaii time, 9am blog time - think of me guys. (actually, i think you can track me online, though i don't know why you'd want to.) and then after that 7 glorious days on the beach. or, supposedly, working on college applications in paradise. (yeah right). anyway i've not got much to say. come visit me.

i'm going to finish with a question, just for the hell of it:
when are you going to do your audio blog?
mwahahahahahhahhaahahaha best jewish-mother question ever.

love you all, for realz.

p.s.: congratulations john! did you have a nice birthday?

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