Today wasn't bad. I didn't really get any sleep last night, An hour at the most, maybe. But I wasn't tired really, as I had slept a lot on Thursday. Went to Japanese and continued to enjoy reading about Sakamoto Ryouma. And in Greek the professor did this thing he always does where he calls on me when I seem to be paying the least attention, ( Read more... )

Lately I've been finding that my wireless connection in my apartment isn't really all that good. Throughout the downstairs it's fine, but upstairs, where my room is, I barely get a connection and it's rather unstable (often when I do something somewhat CPU intensive like play a game or use photoshop it drops, and sometimes it drops for no apparent ( Read more... )

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science - or of any honest intellectual inquiry.

Stephen Jay Gould
--Bully for Brontosaurus

*shrug* Just thought I'd like to share that.

I had an interesting conversation this evening with Mike Alexander/Bork. First time I've talked to him in a few months. I'm still not completely sure what he was talking about, as he sounded a bit crazy. But then again one thing I like about him is he always sounds a bit crazy. Anyways, he was rambling about how he sees people differently now, ( Read more... )

"ah well"
"someday i shall chew on fresh bee vomit"
"just not now"
...
"monkeypool!"
--petethebum

I got an A on my Japanese test from Monday. I probably did better than a lot of people in the class too, since 85% and up was an A, and I got 91%. The guy next to me got 96% but he lived in Japan for 6 years so...eh.... And I did much better on the essay portion than I thought. It wasn't flawless, but all the antagonizing I did over it was ( Read more... )

So, over night it seems the campus center was spammed with a parade of radical posters and banners and other displays, focused mainly on war in the Middle East, and police brutality. My favorites include a huge banner that says "FUCK CENSORSHIP" and a on a long walkway taped along the ground is a timeline of US intervention in the Middle East ( Read more... )