Alarm clocks: During my first year at UC Berkeley, I lived in a dorm. And, I suspect, in every dorm lives a person who sleeps through his alarm, every morning, no matter how loud it …
Camilla and her friends are watching The Fountainhead: The Movie. I'm listening to They Might Be Giants, "Don't Let's Start." I have the better end of the deal. Seventh Heaven was riotous more in execution …
As I watch some more Star Trek: The Next Generation, I feel more affinity for Worf than I used to. He's bicultural, like me. Also, he talks like Seth. "The DMCA brings dishonor to you …
Much Logic silliness today. TA Peter this morning: "Semicolons are great, aren't they?" To use a particular rule in our deductive system, we must make sure we're taking a conservative instance of the original schema. …
I realized today that I have actually spent hours of my life watching Someone Like You, Playing by Heart, While You Were Sleeping, and probably a few more romantic comedies. The moving finger moves on, …
OCF banter: "I'm in Cog Sci because I want to be Cog Sci." "You're lying and you know it."
My old apartment had no TV. So I went to other people's houses to watch The West Wing and, later, Enterprise. And that was it. Two hours a week. Well, and about two hours and …
I told my father that I'm dating Leonard. Dad wants me to just be friends with him, and worries that I'll get a bad reputation and that some good Indian boy will later refuse to …
Extreme Rob Walker! You are no doubt familiar with the idea of extremeness.... This was such a nifty marketing idea that it was quickly splattered all over every product you can think of, on the …
"You weren't alive during the Microsoft conflict. We were beating each other with our own severed limbs." (Roger Ebert quotes from Jason X.)
