Verily, I am a Name among Nerds.

The conference in Phoenix. Well, overall, it was a great time in a beautiful hot city!

( graphic scenes of nerds at play follow )

Prescient Pixies?

This morning on the bus I was listening to a Pixies tape I had made. I was thinking that the song "River Euphrates", while written in 1988, is now an eerie comment on Gulf Wars I and II. Did the US not "drive in too fast", and are they not riding a tiger of some sort in Iraq? (Yeah, I know, technically it's the Tigris River that flows through Baghdad, but bear with me here.)

River Euphrates


Ride, ride, ride, ...

Stuck here out of gas
Out here on the Gaza Strip
From driving in too fast

Let's ride the Tiger down river Euphrates

Ride, ride, ride, ...

Dead sea make it float
One sip from the salty wine
Dead sea make you choke

Let's ride the Tiger down river Euphrates