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It centred around a place, a new apartment I was going to be renting, or perhaps had just. It had been a very small doctor's office. There were two or three rooms. In the front, built-in tables in the middle of the room, like a science classroom (with built-in sinks!), but much smaller, and white-topped like the other counters. A door to the ( Read more... ) -
Two things, incommensurate
This week, my trivia team, Vaginese Army: The Cummunist Revolution, did not win a single round. So sad. Last week, though, our trivia team Doctor Cocktopus and the Vaginal Poundcake took first place. On our answer sheet, the resident lesbian drew a picture of a penis in a lab coat with tentacles sticking out from under it. It said "I didn't ( Read more... ) -
Check out the uncanny valley on that one!
A friend told me that her boyfriend said that he didn't want to have a threesome with [her and] a robot. I told her that in my world, that's grounds for immediate dumping.
Am I right, folks?
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Warm it Up, Kris
I began my microbiology course last night as my first step toward med school. This course is a combination lecture and lab. During the lab section, we had to heat a mixture of agar and tryptic soy broth to boiling and then cover Petri dishes with the substance. Getting the solution to a boil was a problem, as most tables' hot plates did not want ( Read more... ) -
Word of the Day
I subscribe to A Word A Day, and last week's word was "ort". An ort is a small morsel of food, perhaps left on a fork or a plate. From this definition it has entred the register of sewing: an ort is also a piece of thread left in the eye of a needle. One reader wrote in to share what ort means to nem.
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Music exchange
While stopped at a traffic signal, I was jamming to Jimmy Cliff's The Harder They Come (I absolutely love how he turns the idea of Christian reward and that of Christian forgiveness on their heads). I glanced at the person in the passenger seat in the car next to me, who was watching me jam. I gave him a double thumbs up and went back to jamming ( Read more... ) -
Month 4: KIPP
This month I found GiveWell, which evaluates charities and recommends a few for donations. It’s a necessary service: in normal market transactions, the purchaser consumes the service purchased. In charity, the purchaser never sees the service purchased. Insofar as I really am trying to make a difference and not just purchasing some small peace ( Read more... ) -
Typography
Working on a paper that employs both ancient Greek with breathing marks and Romanised Sanskrit pushed me to discover that every font included with Windows lacks the capability to display both, and the font that comes closest, Tahoma, looks like crap on the page. Enter Gentium, a font with a huge character base. It doesn't support non-western ( Read more... ) -
'Tis true. Don't hate.
I commented to a friend about a girl I begin to date that "The girl eats well."
The conversation had been fairly suggestive up until this point, and I enjoyed the pun I had made, but I then got lost in thinking about ergative-absolutive languages.
I explained to my friend that English, like all languages descended from Greek or Latin or German, is ( Read more... )