Reading In Code by Sarah Flannery. Amateurish and annoying with too many puzzles. But I'll finish it. Even though she, at 16, made a much more efficient algorithm than the RSA's or whatever, at least …

If you live around Berkeley and have twenty minutes to spare, I recommend that you take part in Lily Liaw's linguistics experiment involving answering machine messages. She can make an appointment with you anytime during …

Wow, the last Wednesday of classes of my college career! The home stretch in Logic: the iota operator, a descriptor. "iota x" = "the x such that blah blah blah." Examples: "The large elephant is …

Hand-carry your film when you fly.

Argh, college. I want to say, "Mommy, I don't wanna go to school! I have a tummyache!" And yet that's now pretty meaningless. And I'm so tired that that was banal and unfunny. Well, off …

The comedy night was bad/good. Good: all the professional comedians were quite funny, all four of them (incl. surprise guest)! Bad: my audience was quite unreceptive to all save one of my jokes. I was …

"Extreme" and "Teen" and "Bible." Here ya go.

Thanks to Lia for showing me Josh Parsons's amusingly cranky and systematic rant on the world's flags.

I'm not watching The Daily Show right now because when Crystal moved out she took her VCR with her, so our TV no longer can comprehend the presence of channels above 64, such as channel …

Thanks, John, for sending me a link to this ad for Extreme Checking!