Prof. Filippenko (who studied under Richard Feynman, as I learned today) played a funny bit from Futurama and Monty Python's "The Galaxy Song" in lecture today. I must have heard that song once in the …
My Slavic language class is discouraging me, but on the up side, I went to Jeana's last night and baked cupcakes for her whole house. She's so sweet. The frosting was also super-sweet. Too much …
Crying: Last night I read Harlan Ellison's Paladin of the Lost Hour and cried. I've been thinking that nothing lasts. Sherwood Anderson has this great line in Winesburg, Ohio, in the short story "Sophistication." There …
Red Cross: Steve pointed out to me that: (1) blood banks can separate out, say, plasma from whole blood and maybe keep that fresher longer than whole blood, and (2) the Red Cross doesn't need …
When I make analogies, I want them to be as erudite as "Setting up sound in linux is about as intuitive as German philosophy in the 19th century."
So, do the medical facilities of the country still lack for blood? I saw a Red Cross volunteer handing out "Please give blood" flyers on campus today. Under questioning, she admitted that she did not …
So I listen to NPR and sometimes browse magazines and news-supply websites (e.g., Slate and Salon). Here's something I know I'm not alone in noticing: The consensus seems to have arrived: the shorthand for referring …
Enterprise and The West Wing were both non-bad last night. Enterprise certainly didn't reach the same heights as it did last week. A rather interminable "answering schoolchildren's questions" sequence really didn't seem to have much …
John's picture reminds me of his difficulties (back in St. Petersburg) in getting merchants to understand that he wanted a "Mountain Dew." If John were a Wiccan, Mountain Dew would be his familiar. From an …
