you can give gifts on facebook, apparently, $1 each, and proceeds go towards breast cancer research til the end of the month. the first one is free, but i couldn't figure out who, if anyone, i wanted to give it to, so i gave a virtual roll of toilet paper to desi cat. pathetic y/n ( Read more... )

i love working weekends at the library; i can walk around w/o shoes, b/c i'm the only person here.

in other news, omg wacky hijinx. i should decide whether my 'bad idea' radar is to be trusted or not. also, wtf am i going to wear tonight? and why am i not as awesome as amalefic? (i suspect i'm too tall T_T)

there is a fortran colouring book from MIT Press sitting next to me. and that's by no means the most disturbing thing i've seen today.

to overcompensate, however, i simply must rec harikonotora for helping prove an assertion i saw recently, that "90% of the internet's non-pr0n content is pictures of cats."

bad movie was a wash :( back to hass reading.

i'll put off the squeeing about particles until tomorrow, when i'll have been to all my classes; in the meantime, how many past lives do you think i have? (edit: context)

edit2: i'm hereby parsing SO and variations thereof as 'Something-or-Other'. it's all conana's fault ( Read more... )

theoretically, i am celebrating tr's birthday. but they are watching a movie i'm not interested in, so i've taken my wine and run. this means y'all get the obligatory start-of-term classes post. this semester, ostensibly my last at MIT, i'm taking ( Read more... )

for anyone going out clubbing (possibly to any venue where they check age for liquor purposes), i'm informed that the regulations regarding ID have changed as of the first of the year. they appear to want either a MA liquor ID (*not* a state ID or driver's license) or, in my case, a passport. i say they can go fuck themselves, my passport is for ( Read more... )

from yesterday:
person: hey, do you have a programming book?
me: ...programming?
person: yeah, like, C++?
me: this is the aero-astro library. we have many books. some of them are on programming, i'm sure. if you want to find one, you can use those computers there to check the catalog; in advanced search, you can search for C++ and limit your ( Read more... )

a conversation i just had with a gentleman (salt'n'pepper thinning hair, rolling suitcase, nametag, suit) while taking the barkervator to work ( Read more... )

it's snowing!!! (and i'm naked)

qotd: all girls like robots, they just don't know it.

cultural note of the day: there exists a dance step that white people apparently call the Electric Slide, and other people tend to not. (you may know it better as the Hustle, but apparently disco is dead.)