Last night I conversed with my sister on many topics. She came over to discuss Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, which I had lent her, and which had set her head abuzz. (Kress and …

Adam told me that Guster is not only hip, but good. Wow, I really have no idea what Carol Lay is going to do next. Nor, despite Kris's fears, do I have any idea what …

If I didn't have a final on Wednesday night, I'd attend Dmitry's freedom party. At first I thought the name of the venue was the "22nd Amendment," which doesn't make nearly as much sense, unless …

Leonard once evinced amazement that some bit of human knowledge was unavailable on the Web. Now it's my turn. Where, sweet civilization, where are the lyrics to "Insomniac," originally (one site alleges) performed by one …

Is Guster hip? I've seen the band's name pop up among my friends recently, and a bunch of the a cappella groups on campus have been performing its songs for years and I didn't even …

My dad shanghaied me into serving as Youth Editor for this year's Kannada Koota magazine. (My parents hail from Karnataka, a state in southern India, where the native language is Kannada and the people are …

Eating Double Gloucester cheese straight, as I am doing now, reminds me of Michal, my freshman-year roommate. She liked cheddar and used a special cheese slicer that cut cheese with a wire. An hour or …

I should note that Alexei is solely responsible for introducing Leonard and me to the Girl Genius game.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is better than I'd thought. Wow, subtitles help. I beat Leonard at Girl Genius by cunningly and unexpectedly popping a dirigible that, since I had two submarines in my score pile, …

Woo hoo, Kuro5hin is back up! Thing to do very soon: finish backing up all the weblog entries I made there. I'm finally deleting my Windows partition, after something like a year of solely using …