"A University is where parents send their young children, primarily males, so they don't run around and get into trouble and get young women pregnant with the raging hormones of young adulthood."

This header makes me laugh and snicker like a high school sophomore. From news.bbc.co.uk:

"Rapturous German welcome for Pope" (link)

Rapturous, indeed.

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Rumination of the day:

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

- Charles Baudelaire (1821 -

"You are no longer a child, Reuven, . . .It is almost possible to see the way your mind is growing. And your heart, too. . . .So listen to what I am going to tell you. . . .Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there ( Read more... )

Thinking about an online degree? From the MBA admission requirements for Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder:

Applicants must have completed the equivalent of a four-year US baccalaureate degree at an accredited institution. In its evaluation, the admissions committee considers the rigor of the undergraduate major as ( Read more... )

I am a male. I have six different pairs of shoes.

Is this a bad thing?

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Rumination of the day:

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."

- Nora Ephron

LJer's block. I'm trying to make an effort to update this journal more often, but apparently I cannot think of something to write and I'm not all for covering the details of day-to-day rote. So today I drove to Auburn, then drove to Seattle again. I studied aerospace planning and engineering models and got to mess around with a few standards. A ( Read more... )

I find it amusing when companies refer to their shipping activities with SHT. Juvenile, yes, but that does not stop me from chuckling.

Speaking of funny things, here's an excerpt I read in a paper from Dr. Mark Humphrys of the University of Edinburgh:

"I think that people who are worried about robots taking over the world should go to a robotics ( Read more... )

Summer 2005 Grade Point Average at CU-Boulder:
4.0
I also just flew back from Boston. The weather was incredibly hot. We Seattle-ites (a group I am soon to leave for sunny Colorado) think we have it bad? There's a bigger surprise in store, just travel about five hundred miles eastward for a more realistic thermal reincarnation of mephisto ( Read more... )

Alexis de Tocqueville on America:

"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing."

So, gentlemen, what think you of Alexis?

It is now four months since I updated my journal ( Read more... )