was how many shots it took to get this Honda Accord ad right, but the result is awfully impressive. no CGI or anything, either. cool. (source: Daily Telegraph)

As of next fall, I will be attending the Brain and Cognitive Sciences graduate program at MIT.

more later...

I learned to play cricket today. whee ( Read more... )

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The Sinister, Menacing... Blimp?

hee! :)

I woke up with this poem in my head the other day... I wonder if I'm plagiarizing Ogden Nash at all. It sounds kind of like something he'd write.

Now I'll be admittin'
I've rightly thought that
What once was a kitten
Is later a cat.
But I don't now think
Where once I thunk
That a baby skink
Becomes a skunk.

An incredibly cool and perplexing story of a giant web, courtesy of shannonwest

I'm now starting to seriously consider trying to write a novel in November, on top of all my grad school applications. I knew it was a bad idea to go look at the website. ( www.nanowrimo.orgMaybe I won't be seriously considering this anymore when it's not 1:30 am... Maybe that would be for the best, really ( Read more... )

I have been awake far too long. I walked into the kitchen and, in the dim pre-dawn twilight, saw something oddly shaped and huge, yet far too small to be human, hanging from the ceiling. I nearly screamed. I stood there for about 10 seconds frozen in fear, thinking that a midget had hung himself from the kitchen hook, or that some equally David ( Read more... )

best line from a party I went to last night:

"Should I spread icing on myself everyday? I was thinking of just making my earlobes longer."

-- Cake Boy