I know someone mentioned something awhile ago about a candidate for superintendent who said that we should buy thicker textbooks in order to make our students safer during school shootings because, "It is a practical thing; it's something you can do. It might be a way to deflect those bullets until police go there."

I don't remember if it was beetlebush who ( Read more... )

So I made some mashed potatoes earlier. I decided that them tasting like onion would be a good thing and dumped in some onion soup mix. Little did I realize (though I should have known) that soup mix is far saltier than it as any real right to be. In order to mediate the flavor I added: cheese, milk, butter, pepper, all to no avail. I asked ( Read more... )

I hate the sound of my own voice most of the time, but here's what the internet thinks:

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) ( Read more... )

Am I to understand that the independent candidate for Lieutenant Governor on this year's ballot is running on a platform who's sole purpose is to move the OU/Texas game to Norman?

More to come, I'm sure. I'm working through my absentee ballot so that I can get it notarized later this afternoon.

Rin.

...I'm enrolled in the last semester of my undergraduate career. Barring any unforeseen circumstances (I do have one last degree check scheduled for next week...), I will be graduating with Honors and a major in Astrophysics in the Spring of 2007. Yikes.

( This schedule should prove to be exciting: )

"It's a series of tubes!"

Have you seen the shit coming across the Honors ListServ? Holy crap! If you hadn't noticed, the flurry of emails people are sending has gotten a little out of hand. To the point that someone decided to create a Facebook group entitled "I Survived the 2006 Honors College Mailing List Fiasco." Which is still fiascing (is that even a word?), if you ( Read more... )

So, beetlebush, scienceisbeauty and I went to see Man of the Year yesterday afternoon. beetlebush was right, it's certainly not what you're expecting, especially with a cast including Robin Williams, Lewis Black and Christopher Walken. In the end we decided that it was a comedic drama that really makes you think about what's going on in the political scene today. I think it makes a ( Read more... )