I didn't make Daily Cal columnist. Shoot. That plus the boring gray foggy rainy weather gets me down. Maybe I really wouldn't want to live in Seattle or on the East Coast, if the weather …
Hey, neat. I just ran into Jade, who tells me that she is also taking Intro to Logic next semester. It's been too long since I had a study buddy. We can sharpen each other's …
My friend Shweta Narayan drew an insightful comic that references an out-of-context remark by George Lakoff you might have heard about. What's Going On? She'll tell you! I always forget the difference between metonymy and …
Some fella from an antivirus/computer security company, referring to Goner, sounded really exasperated in his comment to an NPR reporter. "You would think that, when a file is this patently a virus, people wouldn't click …
I think I've set up my schedule for my final semester. Basic Musicianship, Intro to Linguistics, Intro to Logic, and Advanced Russian Conversation. It all sounds so Cognitive Science! Well, not just the linguistics and …
Last night I realized one reason that Professor Reginald Zelnik completely impresses me. He gives every lecture without notes. If he has some text to quote verbatim, or tests or handouts to distribute, then he …
I will not find out until Thursday my status with regard to the columnist position. Anticipation, bleah.
Tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, but not quite till the last syllable of recorded time, my Russian class will take tests. So, celebrating the last real day of Russian class, my instructor …
Last night, for the first time in months, I dreamt a particular sort of dream: I spoke to someone, realized that they didn't understand me, and had to switch to my stumbling Russian. This reminds …
I recorded my rendition of Krasnaya Shapochka (Little Red Riding Hood) this morning. If you knew me, you'd predict that I would use silly voices. But I didn't, really. Jeff and Sean, on the other …
