A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him ( Read more... )

I have only about a week of holiday left before I have to go back to Ithaca. I've been in the Bahamas about a week now. I'm 24. I like our new house, but it's less central than our last location, which is problematic because getting around is a problem, and will continue to be as long as my father continues being stupid about letting me use the car ( Read more... )

It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and ( Read more... )

A rebuke to Intelligent Design

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

In December, fly from New York by Air France to Paris, stay for a week, then head east to Vietnam. Stay for three weeks. Return to Ithaca adventure happy and glowing with South-East Asian sunshine. Possible? Perhaps...ticket is about $1500, plus low cost of living once I am IN Asia...

has anyone been playing with the google earth program? you can see satellite images of the locations you type in, sometimes to a ridiculous degree of resolution. Cambridge, MA is really detailed: you can count cars and what appear to be people in the images. New York is good and Princeton is pretty good too, you can make out the campus layout etc ( Read more... )

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My grandfather has died. This is shocking to me, although considering the agonizing way a battle with cancer can draw out, this may be for the best. So I suppose I will have to go to Jamaica very soon.

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So it seems we will soon know who Deep Throat is--he is close to death. There goes another political mystery and at such a fortuitous time, when Deepthroat the movie is being re-released and I will be teaching, or talking about it next week...

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