I think I may have posted this before, but I recently rediscovered this little gem on the internet...It's Orgasmic Sound Explosion's signature Crunk track: Honey, I Crunk the KidsI have been listening to some of the "nerd rap" that is out there now and I genuinely think that Mark and I had 80-90% of this shit beat like six years ago. As far as I ( Read more... )

Salesguy #1: Hey [Salesguy #2], do you like Thai Food?
Salesguy #2: Nope.

(Time passes.)

Salesguy #1: Have you ever tried Thai food, [Salesguy #2]?
Salesguy #2: No, and I don't intend to.

On an unrelated note, I really enjoy taking math classes again. It is genuinely a joy to be doing Trig again.

And this time I am really striving to actually understand it rather than do it well while not understanding why it works. For example, I couldn't go to sleep last night until I figured out why x² + y² + x/2 + y + 1/16 = 0 would create a ( Read more... )

I guess since I am a June baby, I was really feeling awful about the summer winding down. Felt like the death of a season rather than the birth of a new one ( Read more... )

Well, I did pretty well until the second stop, anyway. In fact, for about 20 seconds I was at the front of the pack as far as I know...first we stopped at the Mon Wharf and there were a few people ahead, but everyone else decided to go up Smithfield rather than straight onto the bus lane at Wood St, and I passed everyone up as I raced down Liberty ( Read more... )

It began when the salespeople who ring my cubicle for some reason struck up a political conversation. It essentially consisted of people spitting out neo-con lines on everything -- primarily national security and immigration. This included obligatory pseudo-Indian accents and impressively sweeping generalizations. The real climax was when one woman ( Read more... )

Stolen from le journal de Benjamin:


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Okay...with the addition of an actual piece to hold a microphone and a proper carrying case for my video camera, I now have all of the pieces necessary to start filming a real documentary. I am going to need two types of volunteers ( Read more... )

I love doing stats. I love exhaustively mathematizing everything. Man, maybe some day I'll find a job where that will do me some good ( Read more... )

And in the words of the always-prescient H.L. Mencken:

"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in ( Read more... )