I'm talking to Sarah online:

me: [stuff about meeting up with her and her mom on main st]
her: well give me a ring
::a couple seconds pass::
her: on the phone
me: haha
her: :)
her: well that was unintentional

"If your parents were divorced, you're at least 40 percent more likely to get divorced than if they weren't. If your parents married others after divorcing, you're 91 percent more likely to get divorced ( Read more... )

From the new issue of SciAm: "Eat less saturated fat: that has been the take-home message from the U.S. government for the past 30 years. But while Americans have dutifully reduced the percentage of daily calories from saturated fat since 1970, the obesity rate during that time has more than doubled, diabetes has tripled, and heart disease is still ( Read more... )

Today I was sitting on my computer and realized I had to take a piss. Just as I was about to get up I heard my bathroom door close and the shower turn on. I hate it when this happens ( Read more... )

Last semester (and all of undergrad) if I was in my current situation, where I don't have any homework immediately due and no class today, I wouldn't feel bad at all for just spending the day lazing around my apartment. However, today I've felt extraordinarily guilty for waking up at 11 and proceeding to do nothing for three hours (ok, more ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was given another reason why I could never teach at an elementary school. My mom works at the grade school I used to attend. Yesterday she was telling this story about how the 4th grade boys had gotten into shooting pens. Evidently they were building rubber-band-powered sling-shot devices that allowed them to shoot pens across the ( Read more... )

Gay marriage is an interesting subject for a number of reasons. First of all, the sides are surprisingly polarized. A strong pro-gay marriage stance from gays is expected, but the passion on the anti-gay marriage side is somewhat surprising. Gay marriage is also probably one of the few hot button issues that I don't have a strong opinion on ( ( Read more... )

I just achieved my Christmas break fitness goal. I went from 3 chinups on Christmas to doing 10. Just 14 more to do until I reach my high school record amount.

My friend and I were talking about how one of his friends started off making $80k/yr working for an oil company ( Read more... )

 While I'm waiting for data to come in at work I generally read a conservative legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy.  It's pretty much just a bunch of law profs who write about random legal and politcal stuff.  Lots of times they're fleshing out Wall Street Journal letters that got published and the like.

Anyways, yesterday I commented on how I thought ( Read more... )