Yesterday, Christine and I went to the MIT List Visual Arts Center to see Son et Lumiere . Specifically, I wanted to see Listening Post by Mark Hensen and Ben Rubin. The listening post consists of 231 mini text display screens and a multi-channel voice synthesizer. The experience? Incredible. My

Late in the evening of Thursday, September 18, 2003, while Hurricane Isabel was ripping through Northern Virginia, the Fairfax County Water Authority water treatment plants lost power. All of them. Water reserves ran dry relatively soon after that, and I understand that there is literally a giant sucking sound that takes place when the system is underpressured. Air is sucked back through faucets and the like, and so bacteria can get into the piping system and *could* make its way back to s

man, I miss playing indie rock. in boston.

there are a lot of good bands coming out of there now, and it's exciting to see that the scene hasn't lost any of its lustre.

Memorial Gathering for Kristi Forbes (Lady Christabel Heslington)
Hemlock Gorge Park, Newton/Needham MA
May 31, 2003
3-7 PM

This appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Tuesday 20 May 2003.

Memorial Gathering for Kristi Forbes
(Lady Christabel Heslington)
May 31, 2003
3-7 PM
Boston Area

This can't possibly be good. How did this ever slip under the radar?

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. J. RES. 11

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 7, 2003

"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

I finally spoke to Kristi's husband George on Friday. He sobbed over the phone, swept up in survivor guilt, pain medication and lack of sleep. I found my self giving what comfort I could over a cell phone 3000 miles away. There are so many people affected by Kristi's death. The pattern of reactions are strange ... those closest to Kristi are devastated and express those emotions openly. Others on the periphery are also openly expressing emotions. However those of us in the midd

I just got a phone call from Kristi's cousin, Shannon. Shannon flew out to California today to be with the rest of her family.

If you scroll through my last few Live Journal posts, you'll see posted on 23 Feburary: Everybody Congratulate Christabel and George.

Christabel and Georege were in a car accident Saturday night while returning home from Westermark feast, an SCA event in California. Christabel did not survive.