(Hillary vs. Condoleezza Ho-Down)

Have you ever played Pac Man? Sims? Sim City? Sim Earth? Warcraft? Civilization? Alpha Centauri?

Have you ever played them all at once? I thought not. Check this out... But only if you are willing to become addicted well before the game is released. It combines all the above and much, much more.

(Spore!!!)

*drools*

First of all, I would like to thank the_raphos, _franke_, luckyelephant, lemerde, and retronami for their comments on my Statement of Purpose a week or two back. Most especially I would like to thank mythagon for pointing out a slight flaw... In all the bumbling about in the first half of the paper I managed to miss answering a key question: why am I changing careers? With her help I managed to correct ( Read more... )

Here's a quote that I ran into that I've never seen before. I found it quite amusing ( Read more... )

A couple of my coworkers were sitting around yesterday talking about the advantages and disadvantages of Windows and Linux. Here's how the conversation went (or something close too it at least ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of applying for four different biomedical departments: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genome Sciences, Biochemistry, and Pathology. As with most applications, a Statement of Purpose (ie, Personal Statement) is required. Of all types of writing, statements of purpose are the type that I have never been very good at. Maybe it's ( Read more... )

... Or at least another false peak. We shall see ( Read more... )

Well, the weekend of engagement parties went very well. The families seemed to get along splendidly (well, those that could make it anyway). My family (and especially my mom) was quite impressed with the party hosted by mythagon's parents, and my sister was able to entertain the energetic pup for the better part of the event, keeping both out of trouble ( Read more... )

In the last year and a half almost every aspect of my life has changed. From my work, to my career goals, to my future plans, to my home, to the people I spend time with.

The biggest and most recent of these, of course, is that as of the 14th of August, mythagon and I are engaged! Many of you probably saw the announcement in her journal as well. Though ( Read more... )

So my friend, Josh, and I were having lunch today and somehow got on the topic of weird family relationships, such as asking 'is he my step cousin in law?' of various members of our families. I think we decided against the possibility of a Godfather-In-Law... Ya know, the whole separation of church and state thing... Unfortunately that also rules ( Read more... )