I went to hopstop.com to get subway directions to that UPS place in the Bronx where I need to pick up my package. Here is the summary of the output:

Total travel:
1.47 miles
49 mins

Wouldn't it be faster just to walk (...or limp...or crawl?)?

And so I begin my odyssey to the Bronx. Wish me well.

(Or: "Salve, insula longa, mea senex amica...")

My mom has been making me do Latin crossword puzzles with her for the past half hour. That's right. Crossword puzzles. In ancient Latin. Why? Unclear.

I think it's time to close the book on how I turned out so wacky.

Um. Public access channel 35 late at night is porn. Just wanted to put that out there.

http://www.goodplasticsurgery.com/archives/005909.html

Just wanted to put that out there.

Does anyone have any tips for cheap home-goods shopping online? I'm looking for curtains for my new bedroom, and most of the stuff I've found has either been too expensive, the wrong size (my windows are kind of a weird size: 30x68") or just plain uggers (Cf. the Addams Family's curtains: Leave a comment  3 

I now live at the triangulation of a Subway, a Dunkin Donuts, and a McDonald's. It's the fucking Nexus of Obesity over here, and it's dangerous ( Read more... )

From the American Sociological Association's annual convention's website ( Read more... )

( Princeton Reunions, 2006: A Brief Photographic Recap )

Why do no grocery stores in Harlem sell fat-free salad dressing?? I find this oddly sociologically fascinating.

Before I disconnect my internet (which I will not have access to again, btw, until next Monday at the earliest), I feel the need to elaborate my plan ( Read more... )