In the dining/common room area, there is a sign:
"Please do not use the whiteboard pens on paper"
except that someone put an extra i between the n and s in pens.

Worth reading.

It's been awhile since I posted. Busy with school and nothing so exciting to write about ( Read more... )

Today I discovered that one of my favorite computer games from childhood -- Alter Ego -- is available online here.It's a role-playing game akin to the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books I also liked as a child. It's more a simulation than a game really: you go through life experiences as a baby, child, adult, old age, etc. Future experiences are ( Read more... )

This is my favorite section from the e-mail sent by my RA about checking out for the break ( Read more... )

There's a male contraceptive under development in the UK that works by stopping the normal flow of bodily substances. According to a guy quoted in the article: "Orgasm is not about the fluid but the mental processes that lead and drive ejaculation; these are not changed."

Recently I have gotten hyper-concerned about a lot of things that don't really matter in life, and have not been putting everything into proper perspective ( Read more... )

I was listening to the song "You're so vain" today, which has these lyrics:

You're so vain.

You probably think this song is about you.

The irony is that of course the song is about the other person.

It reminds me of when you're trying to forget someone, and thinking to yourself:
I am so over so-and-so. I am so not thinking of so-and-so. I'm not ( Read more... )

In my quest to waste time when I should be studying, I google famous people and learn tidbits like the following from nndb:

Santorum always opposed abortion, although he prefered to use the word 'infanticide', and his arguments seemed to be very deeply felt. When his wife miscarried in 1996, they named the dead fetus Gabriel after the Biblical ( Read more... )

Until this point in my life, I haven't really been an "expert" on anything. Sure, I knew stuff. I knew enough to hold a job and all that. But as far as being an expert in the sense of knowing more than almost anyone on the planet, that just didn't apply ( Read more... )