Saturday, December 29, 2007

Thursday, December 27, 2007

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

Saturday, December 22, 2007

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:



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1Ashen7331610.141949325"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?

Thursday, December 13, 2007

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.