On my morning EE bus ride, I noticed that as people got on the bus that none of them sat down, even though there were seats to either side of me. I moved one seat over, and immediately the seats were taken up by two ladies, since now there were two empty seats next to each other and so they were easier to notice and less awkward to sit in. So, ( Read more... )

My highschool friend Marc and I took a roadtrip from Jan 2nd through the 8th.

NJ -> Atlanta (2 days) -> Nashville (1 day) -> Orlando (2.5 days) -> Jersey-bound Airplane (2.5 hrs, $100)
Actually, we stopped in Charlotte before realizing there's no nightlife in Charlotte, so we drove on a few hours more to Atlanta.

Atlanta:CNN HQ tour showed me how ( Read more... )

The hilarious SNL video with Justin Timberlake (thx Neem):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S-5grqhj1b8

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10826

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Sometimes I speak on a whim. Before I knew English, I went out into the American world knowing a few phrases: "Yes", "no", and "I don't speak English very well." When I found that variety to be lacking, I decided to play the mime by repeating what was said to me. However, this went horribly wrong when my 1st grade "girlfriend" (as my uncle teased ( Read more... )

I once read a story about a chemist unlike any other. His colleagues would call him "Mr. Molecule" because he was such a whiz. He really understood chemistry in all its depth. They said that Mr. Molecule was special because he could empathize with the molecules he studied. He could feel their frustration when they lacked electrons, and he could ( Read more... )

Something cool I figured out while sleuthing out my family history ( Read more... )

...a phone call is not measured by the length of time it takes, but by the length of distance it brings two people together.

A Buddhist once told me how he lives his life. He said, "Every day I wake up and a little bird sits on my shoulder and reminds me that this could be my last day on earth, and that's how I live out my day. I live knowing that I won't get another chance to say I love you to my friends and family, or to truly enjoy the beauty of nature all around me ( Read more... )

There are two things I'm certain of at this point in my life:
First, that I love to play my bass, and second, that I feel good about my major course of study. Everything else is a mixed up, tossed around bag of possibilities.

Have you heard about the tubes bringing us naked ladies across the interwebs ( Read more... )