It's almost like a kind of a reverse Skinner-box experiment, where once the rat has pushed the lever and successfully received the food, then he gets the electric shock.Edit ( Read more... )

Oh my god, I am so cold. I am freezing. The little red stick on the actual-temperature dial of my office thermostat is pressed up against the left side, below 60, despite the fact that I have turned the desired-temperature dial to the far right, above 80. I keep four nice sweaters at work, and I am wearing all of them. My teeth are chattering ( Read more... )

Milk that is more popular than me:

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Not as pretty as the Sony bouncy balls, but still nice: Further adventures into colored spheres.Ended up not making it to Philly last weekend, due to me idiotically forgetting that I had a Sunday lunch meeting thingie with two lawyers. The meeting ended up being cool, though. A lawyer friend of my dad's, who I had met before to talk about law ( Read more... )

Ok... new, more specific Philly plan--day trip. We leave Sunday morning, say around 10, drive to Rachel's, crash her mom's barbeque, give her hugs, hear some former Soviet adventure stories, be back by early evening. Barely takes a chunk out of anyone's weekend. Rachel, Ross, Mazur, you guys in? Anyone else? If none of you want to drive, Stew ( Read more... )

Ok, kids, two items of interest to make your lives less boring ( Read more... )

Ouch... as they wean me off the narcotics, the pain factor increases. Give me back the beautiful, beautiful drugs! Luckily, distractions are availible. For example, I am finding Zelda: Majora's Mask much less challenging in my new, less drug-addled state. I have switched the ice packs for heat packs which do feel awfully good, but I'm not up to ( Read more... )

So, I am beginning to question the usefulness of Percocet for recreation. I have heard of people buying and selling it for non-painkilling purposes, but I have been taking a relatively low dose every few hours for most of the past two days, and Percocet has yet to fail at knocking me out in under ten minutes, no matter what I'm doing at the time ( Read more... )

Hurrah for seeing lots of people this weekend! I engaged in recreational activities such as rooftop hot tubbing (Cooper, Loren, Jordan, Dana, Eric, etc.), going to Eastern Market (Cooper), having a cookout (Stew, Cooper, Loren, Tim, Allison, and Blair), celebrating Blair's 22nd (Birthday Girl, Zlatko, above mentioned persons, Alan, John... and a ( Read more... )

So, uh, I'm not dead... I think... in case you were wondering... 'cause those of you who haven't been within 200 yards of where I live haven't seen me in weeks or months. So if that describes you, you're not alone ( Read more... )