I've decided the best part about listening to relatively obscure music (besides the aura of superiority it allows me to project) is ordering albums from small record labels. A lot of times they'll write you crazy messages or throw in free stuff. Like today I received an album I ordered last week from Baskerville Hill. Written on the back of the ( Read more... )

Though it's only managed to reinforce my own failings as a human being...I'm glad things have worked out even if it wasn't to the extent that I might have hoped.

I'm going to be gone for the weekend.  I hope you don't miss my amazing posts too much.  If you'd like, you can leave a haiku expressing your emotions and I'll compile them and eventually ( Read more... )

I'm already growing tired of this...exceeding even my own expectations.

“Can machines think?” In 1950 mathematician Alan Turing pondered this question and invented an elegant game to answer it: Let a human chat via Teletype with a computer and another human; if the person can’t determine which is the computer, then it meets Turing’s standards for “thinking.” In recent years Turing’s game has taken on a life of its own ( Read more... )

You can always tell it's summer when the days start running together and the only way you can differentiate between them is by what TV shows come on that night.

I've just found another reason to regret deciding to go to graduate school.  My friend found some job listings for entry level positions at BBC America.  The BBC!  That's one of my dream jobs!  Two of the requirements were a knowledge of British television and a good sense of humo(u)r.  I have both of those ( Read more... )

The impossible has happened, things have been flipped upside down, dogs and cats are living together in single bedroom flats, people hate sea otters and love rats and Arrested Development is starting its fifth season while Two and a Half Men only lasted six episodes...the world has gone mad!

If I could travel two and a half hours into the past, this post would have been on time.

I can barely remember what life was like before all this.

When I wear a tie it almost makes me look like a Business major rather than an Arts & Sciences liberal arts pathetic waste of space major.