What's the deal with people using Facebook messaging in lieu of email these days? I don't understand this phenomenon, and I don't like it.

Just so everyone knows: I rarely use Facebook. My account there exists only because I needed one to do some development there for work. It might look like I use Facebook, but that's only because I have my ( Read more... )

We hear a lot about how society presents us with so much pressure to conform, blah blah blah. Certainly there are plenty of people out there who are obsessed with being interpreted in a particular, fairly narrow way. (I TAed for enough interchangeable blonde sorority girls to have some evidence of this ( Read more... )

I am le tired ("So take a nap. Zen fire ze missiles!"), and while I did manage to get out and acquire Red Bull for the morning, I completely spaced on acquiring catfood. I love my cats dearly, but I am just too beat to hell to summon up the energy to go out yet again. Plus, the best I could do at this hour would be Iams from the Safeway hell and ( Read more... )

Looks like there's a Great Hatsby variant scraping the feed of recent LJ posts and looking for people with visible AIM screen names, then randomly initiating a connexion between two users (though, unlike Great Hatsby, it doesn't appear that the two users are sent the same initial message).

If you receive an IM from the user devourablesalmon, there ( Read more... )

In my Copious Free Time, I've been reading a delightful little volume from 1948, John Read's A Direct Entry to Organic Chemistry. It's a slim book, paperbound, targetted at college students -- and its style, above all else, reminds me of what a liberal education used to mean.

As an example, from the chapter on esters:Nature comes by her ends in ( Read more... )

Dear music industry,

The world did not need a techno remix of "Listen To Your Heart" complete with the original Roxette vocals, but you have given us one anyway. Why?

Yours truly,
--mlp