i feel better about meeting other people's friends than i used to. not that i didn't like it before, but i sometimes used to worry that it would be awkward or that i wouldn't like the new people---though those fears were almost never justified. it's just one of those psychological tics. now i don't worry about that so much---i guess it comes down ( Read more... )

quiz

At least I have a rebuttal to those people who insist that "I could have made that in kindergarten!"

I finally followed through on one of my resolutions: I now own, and have smoked, a tobacco pipe. It is amazing! I got it at a very snooty tobacconist in Harvard Square that very emphatically, and really for seriously, sells products FOR TOBACCO USE ONLY. They are an actual tobacconist ( Read more... )

Somebody has invented a technology to turn this:


( Read more... )

but for years I've been looking at LJ on a bright orange background with blue link text. Amazing! Anyhow, those days are over.


( Read more... )

Awesome idea. Too bad she lost the case.

what if you actually, literally did what ads told you? follow this long link that I'm too lazy to format properly:http://www.ikatun.com/institute/infinitelysmallthings/corporatecommands/index.php?order_by=command

from the New York Times:

( young people are worse at multitasking? and other conundra )

"Then there was the flamboyant figure he affected in taverns and coffeehouses, the lavish tasselled wig and outsize diamond pinky ring he famously sported expressing the same upstart energies and ambitions that characterize his fictional heroes. Not only a fanatic and an incendiary (two of the insults that dogged Defoe most closely in his lifetime ( Read more... )

( Read more... )