For I have seen bubble tea tapioca pearls in their dry, unprepared state. I'm not talking about the white pearls you can find in grocery stores. I mean the actual, Boba Tea Island or what-have-you, dark, big, sweet potato- and cassava-infused tapioca pearls. Yep.

And did you know that "boba" means "breast"? As in female.

I was driving home today when I realized that the girl I met last night is either ( Read more... )

Awesome. I went to my first session of swing dance lessons today, at Rice University, and I was (in my interpretation of the experience ;) HIT UPON BY THE HOT EUROPEAN CO-INSTRUCTOR. She spoke with an accent. Oddly, her name was distinctly Southern (elided here for her privacy). I wonder if it's just the Anglicized version of an Eastern bloc ( Read more... )

HatebeakI believe it. Parrots can be extremely loud. But their lead singer is an African Grey, and Greys are pretty quiet. I'd recommend an Aratinga conure (Suns, Jendays, etc.). Jenday conures probably generate up to 120-130 decibels when they scream. Conures are actually hazardous, in my opinion. They want to be with their owners ALL the ( Read more... )

I sent this (edited) letter to Marilyn vos Savant, of Parade. I don't think she'll publish it, but I also want to send it to ( Read more... )

Remember my entry about the Neo-Hippies? The latest issue of Time talks about the Twixters: "Meet the Twixters, young adults who live off their parents, bounce from job to job and hop from mate to mate. They're not lazy...THEY JUST WON'T GROW UP ( Read more... )

I've almost finalized the list of countries that I want to visit before starting whatever I'll end up doing this fall ( Read more... )

So the Houston Chronicle is publishing a five-part series, "In Harm's Way", based on the six-month investigation that I heard about at our Community Advisory Council meeting and that I noted several weeks ago in this blog ( Read more... )

Eek, these newsgroup postings, by current medical students, scare me ( Read more... )

My old AcDec math coach emailed me a week or so ago about hosting a seminar for his students on mathematical problem-solving (we had discussed this a few months ago). I held it today, and I think the kids appreciated it. I had interviewed them in early December and given them copious feedback on their performance, and they told me right away that ( Read more... )