A life in words

  • On The Road Again: Bidding Farewell to The Vato

    This is the momentous final post from my old ¡Oye, vato! blog. Shed a virtual tear for all the good times…. Here we are, at the crossroads of history. For something like the three hundred twenty-third time in five years, my blog is moving, hopefully for good. The new address: http://joshhansen.net/ Weird. There’s something strangely…

  • Today in the Life of Josh

    Awake a bit after noon, shocked to have slept so late. (Gotta set an alarm!) Standard prepare-for-the-day stuff. (Pray, shower, read scriptures, eat breakfast (super late breakfast)) Walk to campus and give Nathaniel the tie that the Sister Sessions bought for us for Britten’s wedding Work in the lab—debugging the regressions in the Language-ID system…

  • “Quoth the Raven”; Or, On the Demise of Schmoopsy-poo

    Well, I got back to Provo last night and one of the first things I did was run like a frightened child to the ever-loving side of my dear Jenny, or Schmoopsy-poo as I like to call her when my heart is most profusely gushing forth its unending affections towards her. We had been divided…

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves… to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection [and] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption….George Washington, Farewell Address