well, kinda. i figured i'd post some of the stuff i've been researching and writing in my current job as Community News Editor at U of C.

what follows are my favorite stories that i've written so far this year. most of them are about kids being awesome. what can i say? it's an old theme, ( but it gets me every time. )

just in time to go back to work, i'm doing the mucinex shuffle with my first cold of the season. blast. i think i used to be much better at being sick than i am now. i used to have a very strict regimen that i always adhered to: 3 days of warm liquids and bed rest, to be interrupted only by a casual romance with some book of fiction that i'd been ( Read more... )

okay, this makes me feel a little better. via andrew sullivan:

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more feel good stuff:

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it's been nuts at work today. a U of C physicist won the Nobel Prize and everyone in the news office is running about. i, however, have very little to do with the hubub as yoichiro nambu has nothing whatever to do with community relations. still, i'll be drafted to translate the japansese language part of the press conference we held this morning ( Read more... )

i have a thing for old advertisements. they give a sense of the zeitgeist of an age, letting you know what advertisers thought would persuade the public to think their product credible and desirable. these truly creepy old ads paint an interesting picture of the times that produced them. via andrew sullivan.

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sick! exactly when i can't afford to be. well, truth is, i never think i can afford to be sick, but right now, i am in the middle of 14 days of work with no days off (my day job and consulting on the next two weekends). i need my wits about me, not this dull throbbing behind my eyes and a runny nose. these things always catch me off guard when the ( Read more... )

can you tell a person's gender from their browser history?
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Gerald Baker in the Times of London via politico And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness ( Read more... )

did you know that both Obama and McCain are left-handed? odd, since 87% of the adult population is right-handed. what an exceptional year in politics ;0)

here's some more useless, interesting stuff about southpaws.