If you want to be on every talk show from here until forever, all you need to do is invent a completely useless skill, and then get really good at it. It worked for the Fox family, and it can work for you. They even started a company about it, called Speed Stacks, "The Leader in the Sport of Cup Stacking." Now, call me a skeptic, but no matter ( Read more... )

I've eaten pretzels before. You might even say I enjoy them, provided there's a glass of water handy. And if that pretzel just happens to be filled with a hot dog and cheese, I'm in heaven. So when I was stuck jamming a sandwich to go at the MacKinnons cafe, I went with ham and cheddar on a pretzel bun. Biggest mistake of my lunch. Apparently ( Read more... )

My Geoscience final is in about 30 minutes two rooms down, but after going over the notes once, I just don't want to study. Jamming to some Robert Miles on Zooey, and life is good. After the test, which won't take long, I've got a hot date at Super Buffet with a certain Jewish man. I should be back in The WR around 9 or 10, for anybody wondering ( Read more... )

I just splurged and bought myself this, and I couldn't be happier. The review I linked to compares it to the iPod, which was the only other portable I was considering getting. In other news, I'll be working a few basketball games next semester, and not because I'll really need the money now. Complete coincidence, I assure you. I'm there for the ( Read more... )

You LotR fanatics will want to check today's Foxtrot out. I get the jokes on the sleigh, the wreath, and the tree. I can't quite figure out the reference in the snowglobe. I'm asking you real fans to help me out here. :)

I've been hearing a lot of instrumental covers on my new age station lately. The first one I noticed was a version of Sting's "Desert Rose". That was no big deal, since Sting's been around the block a few times. Imagine my surprise when I heard an instrumental version of N'Sync's "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely." Both of these covers were ( Read more... )

I've blatantly stolen this from Kara's profile, but give it a read. It's rather on the long side, but I enjoyed reading it. Especially when he freaks out in the middle. Anyway, this Dave Eggers guy is pretty cool. Looks like I'll be checking out McSweeny's a little more carefully now.
About to go see The Last Samurai for the second time. Wish ( Read more... )

I don't get a feeling like this much, but the boys over at Penny Arcade totally rock. They're collecting these toys and donating them to the Seattle Children's Hospital. As of this news post, they've raised $64,000 in toys and donations. And this is only in the last two weeks or so. It's nice to see the most popular webcomic on the internet ( Read more... )

The feeling of finishing a programming project. Now, like I said before, I'm a little ashamed to admit how out of practice I was. I hadn't really done any coding in about a year, except the odd little programs in Mathematica. I must have made every common programming error at least once or twice. Things with pointers and buffers are actually ( Read more... )

If you've programmed in C before, I don't need to see anymore. I'm extremely out of practice, and I tore my hair out for two hours last night trying to track down an error I was having. Having lost all hope of handing the assignment in today for extra credit, I went to sleep. Well, what they say is true, because around 6:00 I woke up and I knew ( Read more... )