I thought things would be difficult when I started dating a vegetarian...
Turns out, it's not so different from dating another omnivore, in this situation at least...  Actually... I dunno if I like being referred to as an omnivore and I'm not entirely sure that's the proper term for people who eat meat as well as other things.  When we learned what ( Read more... )

So it's the end... or the beginning, whether your glass is half-full or half-empty.

What have I learned this, the final semester of the master's program?

1)  Project Management is useful as a tool, but worthless as a class.

2)  Friends will notice you haven't been sleeping, people who care will tell you to get some sleep.

3)  Trying to catch up ( Read more... )

And on a side note...  the CD that Katie picked up from that guy (at that place on Friday where that weekly ritual seems to be consistently happening) is really good.  -Someday I'll have to let her actually listen to them, but right now it's time for them to make a cameo appearance at work with me for the next couple weeks.

Well, I suppose I ( Read more... )

'And the Lord did grin...'

I used to think my greatest strength at work was modeling... I'm a good modeler.  Yesterday (and today) I realized it's actually animation that I'm best at.  Animating will be the first aspect of the job that's completely automated - it's great to know your greatest skill will be the one that is obsolete the fastest.

How's ( Read more... )

"The optimal state of an entity is that in which there is one major conflict or few minor ones..."  would have been the underlying theme behind my political science master's thesis.

Unfortunately, it never got written.

It's amazing to me that sometimes the tasks which may have the most impact on people never seem to make it into the box marked " ( Read more... )

Strangely enough, demon-possessed baboons did not overthrow the Vatican in 1998, led by a large demonic crystal... so I guess the dollar bill was misleading... http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol16/issue23/pols.media.html

Ah, society.
Such a lovely word... makes an individual feel like a part of a larger group with similar interests.  Those ( Read more... )

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A very good friend of mine in high school started playing guitar somewhere around his senior year... he was actually very good at it and ended up writing a bunch of really good songs.  He wrote happy songs, sad songs, songs with lots of words, songs with no words at all... and then occasionally he'd come up with something absurd that I would ( Read more... )

http://www.playboy.com/on-campus/features/topten/index.html

that's what I'm talking about...