Prescience: noun.

1. Foreknowledge of events to come, foresight.
2. Things I do in the morning before I go to work and do science.

Family: Noun.
1. Next of kin, blood relatives; parents, siblings, children, et cetera.
2. "Sawdust. Mouth. Not a good combination."

I love my family.

Creative: adj.

1. Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative.
2. Made of bovine fecal matter; invented with no connection to any reason or logic, esp. as seen on physics exams.

Reality: noun ( Read more... )

Inevitability: Noun. Abstract.
1. The condition of an impending event or situation being unstoppable; the status of a certain outcome as unavoidable or inescapable.
2. The consumption of cookies as dinner when said cookies are purchased on the day a mathematics problem set must be completed.

Okay. So on Friday I lost my keys. In a setting like academia, and indeed I know of no other example where this condition is more prevalent or true, keys are the units of power. Consider my physics department. Sure the professors are "in charge." But who controls the very air we breathe, and who is it that makes things happen at the behest of the ( Read more... )

Disconcerting: adjective. Form of "disconcert."

1. Causing an emotional disturbance; upsetting the self-possession; ruffling.
2. Finding a tab open in Firefox that you don't remember opening, discovering a person on your AIM buddy list that you absolutely don't recognize, or hearing a song played out of your music library that you have never heard

Googlecake: noun. Slang.

1. A catch-all term used to describe the result of any food recipe found on the internet, esp. using the Google search engine.

Contrast: noun. Abstract.

1. A striking exhibition of unlikeness; a general lack of similarity between two opposing elements.
2. Having a meeting with a mathematics professor to discuss graduate level long-haired math that goes beyond quantum mechanics while having Nelly's "Hot in Herre" stuck in your head.

Dork: noun. Slang ( Read more... )