so i agreed, with only a half-hearted interest, when ezgi asked if anyone wanted to come with her to watch a turkish eurocup game. they were playing against switzerland, and sure, i had a thing against switzerland, since korea's tragic loss to them in 2006. i recounted the unhappy tale to ezgi. she, like me, was a sometimes fan, and commiserated. ( Read more... )

"Obama has gracefully accepted the victory banner, and a lot of Hillary supporters, especially women, are walking off the field as if they've lost a war. I understand their frustration, but the truth is they didn't lose, not by a long shot. Their candidate is stronger than ever, with 17 million votes under her belt, and the public discussion about ( Read more... )

there is something about time spent together which validates a bond. even if you don't always like each other, even if there have been disagreements in the past, today, right now, we are together, dealing with the fact that we are changing, we are moving, we are a year older. they're watching "the transformers" in this ridiculously furnished home ( Read more... )

recent songs i'm obsessed with ( Read more... )

for our last week of computer science, we talked about representing music using computer code. and it was so cool noticing how so many people in the class were musically oriented. our professor was apparently a composer on the side, and he played air flute for a second to demonstrate something to us and he had all the fingering down. i mean, just ( Read more... )

it was such a beautiful day out today. i put on a sundress and took textbooks out to old campus that i did not open. it was janna's birthday and the whole day was going to be about doing what she wanted to do, ranging from where to get brunch (silliman - they had good weekend brunch options), down to where to get our takeout sandwiches (or burrito ( Read more... )

i knew it when we were up on the roof of the mini-tower. the wind was blowing, and i had to hold my fleece closer to me. "i mean, you'll need to be discreet when you're up here..." i looked at elena and melissa and all three of us were just in awe. morse was sleeping below us, and here we were, four stories up, taking in the possibilities.

not only ( Read more... )

We seem to return continually to the idea that it is anatomy, however unsuspected, however invisible, that determines all else and constitutes the "truth." With the advent of genetic research into the "roots" of sexuality, will a homosexually active man lacking a supposed "gay gene" become now a "pseudohomosexual"? Will a heterosexually active ( Read more... )

Blair to teach in the US on faith
Tony Blair is to teach students at Yale University in the US when he leads a seminar on faith and globalisation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7284494.stm

love "Mr Blair will [...] participate in a number of events around the campus." i told my suitemates and they were like "omg imagine the emails. join ( Read more... )

so i figure it's a good sign when i'm stressed out studying for midterms and i look through my comp sci professor's lecture notes that he emailed out for review and there's a bit that makes me smile that goes:

Dewdney’s approach (our textbook) is to give enough examples of cool ideas in CS that you will just “know” what it is kind of by osmosis (in ( Read more... )