These past couple of days, I've been going through the Institute archives from the 70's, specifically a publication called "Thursday," an independent news source on campus during the period, which later merged with Voodoo. Voodoo's persona unfortunately overcame that of Thursday, since Thursday was much more concerned with articles about what was ( Read more... )

Notable instances from break-

-Hanging out with Will, who at one point inadvertently started rapping, so I guess I've got some solidarity with my west coast brothers, and I gained VALUABLE street cred for the White Belts in the future ( Read more... )

Poll

Much as I ADORE those rugged yet soft hearted G.I. Joes, I happened to find a better and more relevant quote to supplement the one I ended with last time (yeah I like quotes whoop dee doo daa). And if you have yet to see those G.I. Joe parodies, you're missing some pretty awesome shit right there. "Ice" is timeless. Anyway ( Read more... )

I picked up a copy of "The Cognitive Neurosciences" Third Edition from the MIT Press garage sale my chance, which was a damn nice find (its a fatty motherfucker and probably about a hundred bucks new - I paid ten); one of those texts I see often on the shelves of grad students, post-docs, and profs in course 9. When glancing through it, I found ( Read more... )

The title actually refers to the fact that I'm listening to Blue October as I write this, and it just happens to be the beginning of October. Doesn't help that the light seems to be fading rapidly now (I swear I didn't plan this ( Read more... )

I wasn't all that pleased with my last entry (for cool people, assume last entry means last public entry). Its alright, but in retrospect... ehhhhhh meh. It is especially difficult to write these after reading Robert Sapolsky's books, two of which I indeed read over the course of my "vacation." He has such a good hold on the entire field, while ( Read more... )

I was saying something about ethics and the development of morals and such during very early times. Or I said I would say something about it. Yes. Anyway, this is subtopic with very little solid information behind it. Most of it is derived from incomplete archaeological findings and mucky anthropological speculation. Archaeology is cool stuff - the ( Read more... )

My favorite author, Lloyd Alexander, died in May. I found out about this yesterday after curiously checking wikipedia. I knew he was old, but he had been continuing to write in spite of everything that might have gotten in his way. I've read some of his recent stuff, and it is as good as always. His final book will be released in August ( Read more... )

I've been mulling this over for a while, but the renewal of the Harry Potter frenzy brought it to the forefront of my mind ( Read more... )