beth binkovitz in wetzlar, germany circa 2005

Beth (Lauren) Binkovitz is(t):

It's my birthday!

(as of August 2010)

Coming back to Columbus.

(as of July 2010)

Mad because according to BBC News, when Laurie Anderson does something, the proper way to credit her is to refer to her as "Lou Reed and Wife."

(as of June 2010)

This Mother's Day, ThinkGeek is sending a clear message that it Think(s)Geek moms belong in the kitchen. Their "Gifts for her" list is pretty horrible in general, now that I look at it. I expect this from typical gift retailers but for some reason I expected more of ThinkGeek. Alas, I am disappointed.

ThinkGeek thinks geek moms belong in the kitchen

(as of May 2010)

I decided to quit cutting my own hair and cough up some money for a coif. Now I look like a Ramone. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing but I don't think it's really the most flattering for my face. And it doesn't go with glasses.

(as of April 2010)

shocked that there are only two Google search results for "I have a crush on Randall Munroe" (with quotation marks).

I should have tried that search before I got married.

My list of famous people it never occurred to me to try to date until I realized it was too late now consists of:

  • Neil Gaiman
  • Amanda Palmer
  • Randall Munroe
  • Cory Doctorow
(as of February 2010)

Made with Quartz Composer, based on a backdrop assembled by smokris. Rendered with QuartzCrystal.

night sky qtz: http://kineme.net/composition/bbinkovitz/NightSky
background qtz: http://kineme.net/composition/smokris/BackdropCloudyGrey

(as of February 2010)

Appreciating the irony:

"Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian programmer who gave a talk at a hacker con in Vegas on the failings in Adobe's e-book locks. The FBI threw him in the slam for 30 days. He copped a plea, went home to Russia, and the Russian equivalent of the State Department issued a blanket warning to its researchers to stay away from American conferences, since we'd apparently turned into the kind of country where certain equations are illegal."

(Cory Doctorow on DRM: http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt )

(as of August 2009)

Is back from Helsinki. Had a wery güüd sauna.

(as of June 2009)

"American success in Afghanistan should be measured by “the number of Afghans shielded from violence,” not the number of enemy fighters killed, he said." [New York Times]

(as of June 2009)