My advisor assigned to us the following reading as preparation for our first lab meeting tomorrow:

The anti-creativity letters: Advice from a senior tempter to a junior tempter.

Which begins thus: Note. The letters that follow fell into my hands under remarkable circumstances that I am not at liberty to reveal. The correspondence bears a striking ( Read more... )

It was marketed as an ultrasonic teenager repellent, an ear-splitting 17-kilohertz buzzer designed to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected ( Read more... )

No Furbies Allowed.

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If you enjoy whiteboard quotes and random LJ posts / snippets like this one: ( Read more... )

I know I owe some stories from my (second-to-last) post, but iTunes played me some music I've been meaning to post about for quite some time, now! And, since I'm waiting for a process to finish, I have a few minutes, so here's the long and short of it:

The man: John Legend
The album: Get LiftedThe diagnosis: pathological liar ( Read more... )

Since I cannot say it better, I am just cross-posting the amazing planetnelson here:

User: ( Read more... )

Gray Screen of Death, I do not know what summons Thee to me so swiftly and so suddenly. I can but carry on along my way, a note of anticipation hovering within each step, entranced by your mystery and power, enthralled by the possibility of your arrival ( Read more... )