Can I get my steak at a thermal conductivity of .5 W/mK?

My Microsoft Word documents talk to me.  I opened my short story and it said something to the effect of ( Read more... )

Gwen is sprawled out over our futon in the living room with a textbook over her face.

Me:  "That doesn't look like studying"
Gwen:  "I'm absorbing it"

My cousin Sam is a Theta Chi, so I went with my Little, Kerry, and the other AXO '10s to see him tonight.  Such good news.

My Little is gonna get a Little!!!!!!!!!  The excitement.... I'M SO EXCITED.   We're contemplating gifts for mystery week.  We have really pretty freshwater pearls set aside that we just need to string--probably for the last day ( Read more... )

Tim and I finished this friday's ICE report 10 minutes ago.  Dear god... 4 am and I just got back to the apt.  And there were still people in the basement of building 66 (chemE computer lab) when we left.  But it's okay because this report is so fucking sexy.  27 pages of flawless Jacobian and numerical answers that make Real World sense.  It's a ( Read more... )

My dad taught me to write batch files in 4th grade.  I think that was the first "programming" I ever did, even before BASIC ( Read more... )

Okay I just wrote the first thousand words of a lesbian story for Haldeman's class.  And I put a blood stained clover in it, in a place no one would ever notice it.  Which means I laughed to myself and no one else noticed.   Damn I should have written it while at Odyssey, to go along with the mermaids and robot burying gays and calise/shana and ( Read more... )

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I reread "Flower for Algenon" last night and it made me cry.  I'm such a sap!!!  I completely forgot how good that story is.

I think Ashley thinks I'm losing it.  I think she thought I was getting emotional about my workload or something instead of the story because she brought me tea with splenda (and she's like the anti-sweetener, always has a ( Read more... )

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