It only takes 17 muscles...

A hobo made me smile today. He carried a sign that said, "If you don't have spare change, please smile."

synesthesia

Geek Love

What is it like writing about a school you've never been to?

It's 2 AM, and I'm knee-deep in browser tads and paper trying to pull together some grand thesis about the file-sharing culture at Cornell. Somewhere in my research, I found a stats page for the hub chat and saw this:

	nick	non- consecutive lines	delta lines	% of total	lines	letters/ lines	random message
1	Ashen	7331	6	10.14	19493	25	"did you look at the ted talks?"

Ted talks! Squee! So college students nerdy enough to watch TED talks are also nerdy enough to bw the most prolific all time user on a hub chat. Do I consider myself in good company?

the last three things in my brain

1. Judgmental people are the worst hypocrites.

2. Explain to me this phenomenon: Asian guys and break dancing.

3. Green, Gauss & Stokes. Conrad. Resnais. Please just go away so I can enjoy my winter break.

self-conscious thoughts

The one thing I'm most scared of is being boring.
And forgettable.
And replaceable.
That I'll leave the room and you won't notice.