So, I think I'm finally addicted to caffeine. This may not surprise many of you, but I thought I might actually get through college without the obligatory coffee dependency. It was my Psych/Ling class that did me in. The class was a) early in the morning, the professor b) brewed a fresh pot of Cup O Joe coffee for us and c) heavily encouraged us ( Read more... )

"Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-and both commonly succeed, and are right."

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It took me over three hours to vote, but vote I did. I've got the sticker to prove it!

Bring me your Xboxes! For me to keep, that is. Blame him, he introduced me to too many cool games too quickly, the first being SSX 3. I really like the robustness of experience in the game; yes it all centers around snowboarding, but within that you can race, do point runs downhill or in a half-pipe, do skill challenges, or you can just swoop ( Read more... )

I'm home. There are some pictures here from my summer course and some other stuff too.

Talk about a long couple of days!

No, seriously. Talk about it. I'm listening.

Fine. Don't.

I was just trying to share.

I came across this interesting little puzzle here:

Suppose a teacher announces to her class one Friday afternoon that she will give a surprise quiz sometime during the following week. Her class meets five days a week (poor class), so the test could be on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. But it can't be on Friday - by Thursday night ( Read more... )

Take the quiz: "Which Random Irish Gaelic Phrase Are You? "

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I'm concerned that this quarter is going to be nasty. I'm taking CIS 560- Systems Software Design, Development, and Documentation/Professer Ramnath's Stand-up Comedy Review. The comedy review part is actually amusing, but I think the course work involves learning how to put cover sheets on TPS reports... It's one of those courses apparently ( Read more... )

Apparently yesterday (well, the day before yesterday, technically) as I was settling down for an afternoon nap, my neighbor downstairs was robbed. The took all of his camera equipment, which apparently was a lot. They didn't take anything else, just the camera stuff from the hall closet.

The terrible part is that I actually heard the robber. I ( Read more... )