An earthquake woke me up in the middle of the night last night! It actually wasn't exciting, because I thought maybe I'd just imagined it, until I checked the news this morning. Pretty weird.

Youtube video of an extremely cute commercial, which I suggest you watch: ( behind the cut! )

Exciting (or at least vaguely interesting, to me) things lately, in the form of a list. 10 things, in no particular order ( Read more... )

interesting names of the day:

Polykarp Kusch
Jordi Folch-Pi
Zvi Griliches

Also, apparently Napoleon was the antichrist. Something to do with roman numerals.

My new favorite 18th century fruits: nectrons & apricocks.

This is pretty cool. A database of "several million feelings" stolen from people's blogs! In the form of little colored circles and squares that you have to chase around and click on. With pictures. And links back to the places the sentences were found.

Ok, it's also sort of creepy.

The summer after my junior year of high school, I spent the summer in Ames, Iowa doing an engineering internship. My roommate for the summer was named Amber, and she was doing an internship doing something to do with cows. She and her friends at home would go to Walmart on weekends and run aroudn the store, pushing each other around in carts and ( Read more... )

a list of places I want to visit/see someday:

( no real reason for this, I was just thinking of places I'd like to be instead of here )