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.)

Come on down to the OCF, where it's 11:50 and the place is jumpin' jumpin'.

Leonard and I spoke about the Elmo testimony photos (to which he referred on Wednesday). Just consider the ramifications! Me: The more I think about it, the more disturbed I am. Leonard: Welcome to my …

Hint to those taking foreign language classes: When teachers want you to converse but they haven't set up anything for you to talk about, they'll ask you to talk about yourselves and what's going on …

From emails: Camille, on "Seventh Heaven," says, "like Eight is Enough meets Wodehouse at a church picnic...or something." And Alexei, midway through a reassuring email: "Every so often, I think you've got to kind of …

Yes, this week's Enterprise had such heavy-handed allegory that I'm surprised it didn't implode upon reaching critical mass. But I liked it anyway. "Look at the brave, stoic face that these Palestinians, er, Japanese, er, …