Tomorrow is Pi Day. In more exciting news, my flatmate Crystal has met Andrew Wiles! I only found out a few days ago that she spent two weeks at the Institute for Advanced Studies at …
Remember how Professor McWhorter entertained us by saying he didn't know what a Scantron is? Well, Adam told me that McWhorter did the same bit last semester! Oh, the fraud. I feel betrayed.
Yesterday Leonard received a physical letter that I had sent him the previous day! From Berkeley to San Francisco in about twenty-four hours!
Wow! It looks as though all my free Chomsky tickets are already spoken for by Seth, Steve, and Nandini.
Today, in pre-midterm Q&A, someone asked whether we should bring a Scantron for the test. Professor McWhorter evinced bewilderment and confusion, touching on such topics as the burning and ripping of CDs, MP3 players, electronics …
I waited in line for about twenty minutes to get tickets to see Noam Chomsky speak on language and the mind and biolinguistics. I got two tickets for the Tuesday (19th) and two for the …
From a hypothetical argument: "Calm down." "It's not that I need to calm down, it's that you need to stop being wrong." From a hypothetical job fair: "Such a long line! What are they giving …
Jade thinks I'm copping out when I make a predicate true or false by assigning the null set or the universe of discourse to the predicate's extension. I say it's perfectly fine, contrasting my "Wal*Mart …
I carried a fire extinguisher on the BART this weekend, because Seth gave it to me during the intermission of the Mass. I doubled over laughing when he presented it to me, but I really …