I am so glad I took the bus to work today. It's freshmen move-in day at the university. And I guess this year the administration decided to try something new. I don't know exactly what their plan is, but I know that it involves closing down two major throughways for two blocks immediately next to the university, resulting in backed-up traffic of ( Read more... )

Fuck fuck fuckity fuck!

A lesson to all aspiring scientists: if you're gonna do a mathematical proof and it has a bunch of cases on it, do all the god-damned cases and don't just say "this case is similar to the other one."

My stupidity might have cost us a month or two of work.

Staying late today to see if I can patch things up.

I'm amazingly ( Read more... )

When did my life turn into a slapstick comedy?

Why is it that the first thing that I must do when I come home is juggle a bunch of buckets under a bunch of leaks in my ceiling?

The guy was just here on Friday to paint it again from the last time. Friday.

It's been three days and there are bubbles in the paint again.

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Grr... saw a link on boingboing to an article by Orson Scott Card against gay marriage.

I feel absolutely disgusted. To see a man whose books I enjoyed so much spout so much unbelievable nonsense.

I mean, I guess I knew that he was a pretty devout Christian, but from his writing he seemed like a reasonably intelligent person. I simply cannot ( Read more... )