So, apparently, according to rumors, Rahm Emanuel got offered Chief of Staff. Um...okay, that's...different. Seriously, Barry? Seriously? He vocally opposed Howard Dean's 50 state strategy and probably yours as well, he would laugh "change we can believe in" out of the room, he made part of his fortune in freaking investment banking, and I say this ( Read more... )

Yay funny emails! In its entirety, with original formatting and punctuation:

Subject: WIN A Wii BY ATTENDING LECTURE ( Read more... )

EngrComm. The prof was talking about sexist language, and how we shouldn't use gender-specific nouns or pronouns to refer to people in general ( Read more... )

The disturbingly hilarious and the hilariously disturbing:

1. These are pictures of (sometimes) shirtless Putin taking a fishing trip or whatever. The pictures aren't that interesting, unless you have a thing for topless!Putin, which, apparently, a lot of people do. What's hilarious is the caption accompanying each picture. A sample: "We feel the ( Read more... )

Sally is a little bit hyper right now...from studying. That's right, Sally gets high off of the sweet, musky scent of semiconductor devices. How sexy. Second EE339 (solid-state devices) exam is tomrrow, and EE339 exams make Sally want to kill something (and apparently, also hyper). If Sally weren't a greedy capitalist pig-dog-squirrel lusting after ( Read more... )

Remember my pedophile statue? College of Engineering has published its pictures. ;) At first glance, it may look happy and cute and innocent and bunnies, but if you stare at his face long enough, it turns really creepy, really quickly. And yes, that's actual candy in his cup thing (his "goblet"). ;) Yay for throwing it together in 90 minutes the ( Read more... )

Next week is E-Week, during which the engineering students wank over their own perceived hotness en masse through designated activities. :P Last year, for example, we had "Throw a water balloon at a business student." This year, we seemed to have toned down our violent tendencies, and are using the power of numbers and mathematical proofs instead. ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas! It's actually the 26th over here, but you don't need to know that. ;)1. Lol at Chinese people "celebrating" Christmas because it's trendy to celebrate foreign holidays, and because anything foreign is trendy. All the nicer apartments/restaurants have sad little 3-feet-tall Christmas trees with sad little decorations, and all the ( Read more... )

Lol/Wtf The Daily Texan has endorsed Kinky Friedman for governor. o.O Their reasoning is pretty much that 1) he has the best chance of beating Rick Perry because he won't turn off conservative Texas like a Democrat would, and 2) it doesn't matter if he's batshit crazy because his advisors and aides will be doing all the governing anyway. Huh ( Read more... )

From Sally's NewsFeed:

A former Google executive recounts how, on occasion, Mr. Brin would show up for candidates' job interviews in unconventional dress, from roller blades to a cow costume complete with rubber udders around Halloween.

Damn it I wish I can do software. Hardware companies are no fun. :(