A 9 oz. bag of spinach in my fridge was a day or two from going bad, so I forced myself to eat the whole damn thing at work today. That may not sound like a lot, but considering it's nothing but leaves, it's a pretty substantial amount of spinach.

Reading (or at least trying to read) Infinite Jest is very therapeutic, entertaining, and frustrating. I might be done by October at this rate, although that will probably turn into June as soon as fall semester starts. Not a whole lot of room for dense, postmodern literature when studying Fourier Series and C Programming ( Read more... )

Maryland is a very charming state. The absolutely lovely city of Frederick is situated on a stretch of land that reminds me very much of the hill country in Texas, though a little more developed (I think I'll cry if they ever pave over the Texas Hill Country). Hard to believe that a festering shithole like Washington, DC, could be just a short ( Read more... )

Who is man? Is he a rational animal? If he is, then the goals can ultimately be achieved. If he is not, then there is little point in making the effort. All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal but with a near infinite capacity for folly. His history seems largely a halting, but persistent, effort to raise his ( Read more... )

"On an average, 324000 new babies are born into the world every day. During that same day, 10000 persons, on an average, will have starved to death or died from malnutrition. So it goes. In addition, 123000 persons will die for other reasons. So it goes. This leaves a net gain of about 191000 each day in the world. The Population Reference ( Read more... )

And so the sham continues, the feds laughing as they promise to heal our pain, families tearing each other apart in a fit and dogs biting their owners... Many people jogging down the road, keeping fit like Tony Little, Elvis impersonators screaming from the windows of strip clubs and millionaires buying people to hunt and kill for fun ( Read more... )

Bell's Two-Hearted Ale is one of the finest beers I've ever tasted, and it is lamentably not found in Texas... Must enjoy it as much as I can this summer, then.

Washington DC reminds me of New York City: tall and crowded, with many people trying not to make eye contact with each other. A bit different from Houston, which is sprawling with a spotty population density, with many people trying not to make eye contact with each other.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a hunchback, immigrant dwarf who migrated to the United States from Germany in the early part of the 20th century... What a story! The man revolutionized electrical power distribution by developing the concept of phasor transformation, which uses the principles of imaginary number systems to drastically reduce the ( Read more... )

Strange the sensationalism of this swine flu... Flus spread and kill every year, but this one seems particularly special as to warrant massive headlines across all spectrum of media. People all around were in a panic, despite no deaths in the US (aside from a Mexican boy who was transported to a hospital in Houston when he was already at death's ( Read more... )