A meme where you get tagged with 7 of your interests and have to explain them. Comment and I'll tag you.

El bobolo gave me:
atonality, bananas, mojo jojo, tomatoes, cosmology, nerdiness, messiaen

Atonality: Is a rather non-specific term for music that rejects tonality. In other words, it doesn't keep returning to the same set of notes, and it ( Read more... )

You Are a Revolutionary
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I thought, in a fit of privacy paranoia, that Googling myself might bring up something dodgy by someone who isn't me, but apparently all the people with my name are Asian overachievers. Between the various google-Suzannes, one has a PhD in biology, another won a writing award, three have multiple scholarships/academic honours, two edit academic ( Read more... )

1. Playing in a musical which parodies the recent controversial curriculum reform at my university (we switched from a European-style model to a more generalist American one, and to do so we cut our undergraduate degrees from 96 specialist ones to 6 general ones, with lots of classes, majors, funding for obscure and unprofitable departments, and ( Read more... )

So we had an earthquake tremor the other day. It made our house shake. And my first thought was that it was ( Read more... )

Rules ( Read more... )

Forty-three degrees ( Read more... )

So I came across this article in the Wall Street Journal predicting that the US is going to disintegrate into civil war in 2010. And I had to lol at how this Russian prof thinks the US will divide:
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If you want to know what Santa is up to: http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html

I do find it a little worrying that the US-Canadian joint airforce is tracking him, though. Two questions for them:
1. What are you going to do to Santa?!
2. Don't you have anything better to do?

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall. blog ( Read more... )