Author Archives: Sean

Associate librarian, blogger, occasional author, graduate student and sometime mathematician. I write and read and sing and dance, all more or less compulsively. I am also much too prone to share personal information with strangers (see: the previous sentence, plus my entire blog).

Hellboy II vs. The Dark Knight: Compare and Contrast

July 18, 2008 – 7:30 pm

I didn’t like the original Hellboy movie. I don’t remember hating it, but I apparently found it forgettable, because I certainly don’t remember the plot. In fact, when I was talking to a friend about it last night, I was convinced it had come out at least two years before its actual release date (2004) [...]

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Trying out Ping.fm for blog posts…

July 15, 2008 – 11:36 pm

I’ve been using http://ping.fm/ to post to my LiveJournal, my Twitter and Pownce feeds, my Tumblelog and my Facebook status for a while now, but this is the first time I’ve tried posting to WordPress. I probably won’t make a habit of it, since it’s just as easy to go to WordPress.com and blog as [...]

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Wordle’s Take on Alone and Unobserved

July 13, 2008 – 3:42 pm

I plugged “aloneandunobserved.com” into Wordle and this is what popped out. After I tweaked the color, font and layout, that is. Try it, it’s fun!

(Click for full-sized version)

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The Monologuist

July 12, 2008 – 3:55 pm

I wasn’t hungry at noon today, so I spent my lunch hour exercising in the library’s tiny workout room. Afterwards I was changing in the likewise tiny locker room, feeling a sense of manly accomplishment, when I heard a noise from the bathroom stall. My immediate reaction was to think, There’s someone else in here. [...]

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Trudging across a Plateau

July 12, 2008 – 10:57 am

As I feared, the weigh-in on Tuesday showed that I have made no progress towards my fitness goals in the last two weeks. And now that I’m done with that program and there’s no accountability, my motivation to eat correctly and exercise properly is very low.
Plus my goggle strap broke right before QUAC swim practice [...]

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In Which It Is Everlastingly Too Late for Last-Minute Repentance

July 8, 2008 – 2:44 pm

I have my final weigh-in and body-fat measurement with my fitness guy tomorrow. I’m nervous, because I haven’t seen him in a week and a half and . . . I haven’t exactly been following my eating plan. I definitely haven’t gotten down to my goal of 13% body fat; the most I can hope for is that [...]

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Looking Back on July

July 4, 2008 – 3:16 pm

When I was fifteen, my older sister and I went out to South Dakota to spend the summer with my aunt and uncle and their family. By then four of their seven children had left home: three were at college or at work in other states, and one, Kevin, was on a Mormon mission in [...]

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In Which Madame de Pompadour Owes Her Life to Doctor Who

July 2, 2008 – 10:51 am

My online friend Misty (Hi, Misty!) introduced me to DailyLit a week or so ago, and since then I’ve been soaking up Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, delivered via RSS feed in easily digestible chunks to my Google Reader inbox [...]

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Twenty+ Years of Sean

June 30, 2008 – 10:35 pm

I wasn’t tagged, but I’m doing this anyway. I am aware that this is cheating.
20 years ago I:

Was seven.
Lived with my family in Hemet, California, in my grandma’s house.
Read all the time.
Had just finished my first year of homeschool.
Was the second of four siblings.

10 years ago I:

Was seventeen years old.
Had just started my third year [...]

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Mormon Church Encouraging Bigotry—Again

June 29, 2008 – 6:30 pm

A great deal has been said by many people on the subject of the letter the Mormon leaders wrote urging Mormon faithful to “[d]o all [they] can to support the proposed constitutional amendment” against gay marriage in California. It was Cog’s post—and the subsequent discussion—that finally inspired me to write about it myself.
As I mentioned [...]

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