I'm back up at Dartmouth ( Read more... )

There are a lot of knee-jerk reactions that result from improper/new (depending on who you ask) uses of our language. In a sort of tangential way, my study of programming language syntax and structure lead me to an analytic contemplation of natural languages. I think in many cases, language corruption is caused when a language does not provide an ( Read more... )

I tend to be suspicious of catch-phrases/sound-bytes such as FDR's "all we have to fear is fear itself" because most of the time they are utter generalizations. Sometimes, however, the fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself. I think one of Huckabee's recent remarks captures the terrorism hysteria rather well ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it in some form or another.

Peace, Love, and Pie

Cheers!

I might have made this particular rant before. If I have, then feel free to either ignore it or flame it with cries of DUPE!, whichever you fancy.

Why do music stores suck so much? At least FYE does, if anybody knows of a non-sucky music store around here, please let me know. The selection is not nearly as extensive as Amazon's, but that's to be ( Read more... )

Does anyone want to go see The Golden Compass?

Let me know if/when you want to do things with me

The ground is covered in snow, it's still snowing, and I have nothing academic to worry about until I force myself to start studying for exams (probably tomorrow).
Cheers!

I seem to have ridiculously bad luck with Parliamentary Debate. A couple weekends ago I was supposed to go to Brown, but my partner ditched at the last minute. Now, this weekend, I'm supposed to be at Cornell. Different partner. He got sick. I might be able to go to Tufts next weekend, but that's predicted on me getting a decent start on my seminar ( Read more... )

So, I haven't exactly updated since I started college (unless you count that one little mental tidbit about essay writing) and for that fact I do apologize. I cannot possibly think of everything that's happened since I got here to write it down, and such an endeavor would take far too long anyway. Some of you have been in communication with me ( Read more... )