http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=298756

I was looking at course evaluations for Wash U engineering today, and I think its really stupid to have people evaluate a course at the end, right before the final exam. The evaluation is therefore based on how easy the class is, not how much people are learning in it and the teaching quality of the professor. Its ridiculous that evaluations ( Read more... )

This article is entertaining, shocking, and fascinating:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/051010crat_atlarge

Andy just sent me a link to an article about what its like living in a 200 sq. ft. hole in the wall in Tokyo. I miss Japan so much sometimes (and this is only 50% because Kyoko is there). I was just looking at how expensive it would be to live in Tokyo (I'd rather live in Kobe, Hiroshima, or Osaka) and its amazing how inexpensive things are there ( Read more... )

Suck this Economics and Genomics:

http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/ac0614341

I am not sure if I am just getting tired of the show, but last night's Grey's Anatomy, which was supposed to be like "Code Black" last year (which I thought was sweet) was bad. Even the choice of music at the end (an abstract Frou Frou song) was bad, really bad. I think either the good writers on the show quit, they just enjoy the smell of their ( Read more... )

I've got a nice head cold/ fever going from too much drinking and not enough sleeping in Chicago. I always have way too much fun when I go there and end up paying for it when I return. It was work it though. Things I learned ( Read more... )

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1723774

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger

I haven't written a decent entry in a while, and I am only writing this one to avoid editing a paper. I guess I am not writing recently because, overall, have been really really good. I am enjoying work, managing to not get fat despite the fact that winter is fast approaching, and things have been great between Kyoko and I and I will see Kyoko in ( Read more... )