Figure-skating cowboys. With *very* nice bums. ::drool ( Read more... )

We realized as we were watching the women's figure skating this evening, that we missed a great opportunity for an Olympic figure skating drinking game. Very simple instructions: Take one drink every time the commentators mention the new scoring system. If you've been watching, you understand. If you haven't been...you're lucky to have missed it

Today's Fact Of The Day, brought to you by my Physiological Psychology textbook: The longest neuron in a human stretches from the foot to a region located in the base of the brain ( Read more... )

Amusing/adorable link for the day:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4627950.stm

The hamster is just way too cute.

Hee hee. A. just got an e-mail about an available Philosophy/Theology academic post - to be considered for the post, you have to develop a teaching specialty in the sub-area of Swedenborgian Studies. Swedenborgian Studies, heh ( Read more... )

So I've just finished grading the last exam I gave in class, and I calculated their grade up to this point in class. Out of a class of 28, I somehow ended up with 3 people getting a 76.1 and 3 people getting a 71.6. (The only other grade that repeated was 2 people are getting a 93.7). I mean, this grade is the average of 3 exams and 2 homework ( Read more... )

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I don't watch cooking shows, even though I enjoy cooking (when it's not 90F, anyway).

I think I've been spending too much time reading/thinking about Harry Potter. I was way too amused by a journal article title that began with "Constant vigilance". Hee ( Read more... )

I think I've been in the United States for too long. I saw an e-mail of A.'s from Toronto that said things would be closed down today, and my first thought was, "Hm, I wonder what happened?" Then I was like, "Oh right, Canada Day...." It seems so strange that it didn't even register at all this year, when I spent the last few years trying to not ( Read more... )

Heh. I love Dave Barry. (Otherwise known as "Davey Bary", for those of us unable to type ( Read more... )