Since I left East Campus, xkcd keeps me in touch with contemporary teenage geekspeak.

As I type this I'm sipping on DECAF coffee.

Thanks again for bringing [...] over today! :) I really appreciate it. You are awesome!

Thank you!!!!

This is from the person who was so mad at me a couple of weeks ago.

This was interesting.Some 36% of those questioned in the US agreed that this use of torture was acceptable, while 58% were unwilling to compromise on human rights.Israel has the largest percentage of those polled endorsing the use of a degree of torture on prisoners, with 43% saying they agreed that some degree of torture should be allowed.

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Hui Tzu said to Chuang Tzu, "I have a big tree named ailanthus. Its trunk is too gnarled and bumpy to apply a measuring line to, its branches too bent and twisty to match up to a compass or square. You could stand it by the road and no carpenter would look at it twice. Your words, too, are big and useless, and so everyone alike spurns them ( Read more... )

"You’re right to be upset - I was pretty thoughtless this weekend. Do you want to talk about it?"

How would Daniel Shapiro have handled this conversation?

P: you didn't make it last week wednesday
P: when I sat there for an hour at [...] by myself
A: I'd told you earlier that I couldn't make it at 9:30
A: neither could N or M.
A: why'd you insist on having it at that time?
P: don't worry. I will never schedule one again
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So, splitpeasoup posted a link to this video with Gordon Ramsay.

One comment stood out among the responses:
"I would hate him a lot more if he weren't so damned attractive."

:D
Let's be clear. The guy is middle-aged, pasty, english, losing hair, and pudgy. The only thing he has going for him is his personality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTHgLx2XM2k