“We talked before the game about winning this for [our seniors],” Lawson said. “I know they had a great feeling walking off of that court. [The fans] were all quiet with their hands over their heads.”

Shortly after the game, Lawson went back onto the court for a postgame radio interview.

“There are still people sitting out there,” he said after ( Read more... )

ESPN: "They have high expections for this player, and they are waiting for him - literally - to explode..."

I overheard the following statement being made by a tourist in the basement of the Capitol:

"I can't help how I feel."

Discuss.

Today I found a backup CD I'd made years ago, containing various files from my old computers going back well into the last millenium.  Here's a piece from my grad school days - it's modeled on the kinds of feedback letters we were forced to write to other grad students about how they could improve their papers...

Dear Exhausted Grad Student #367,

I ( Read more... )

There's some new content up on the website (including shots of our first ever performance) :

http://www.myspace.com/theconsensusbureau

Thanks to Kendell (official band photographer) and Sandy (who mixed the vocal tracks)...

The Alpha Geeks, by David Brooks (NYT)

In 1950, Dr. Seuss published a book called “If I Ran the Zoo.” It contained the sentence: “I’ll sail to Ka-Troo, and bring back an IT-KUTCH, a PREEP, and a PROO, a NERKLE, a NERD, and a SEERSUCKER, too!” According to the psychologist David Anderegg, that’s believed to be the first printed use of the word “nerd ( Read more... )

In the waning moments of my 20s, I've started a band.  Sort of.  Well, I bought a synthesizer 18 months ago, and have tried my hand at writing a few songs.  Being unable to sing myself, I enlisted Brad to do the vocals.  I'm still working on getting a mic so I can record said vocals, but in the meantime, I've uploaded a few instrumental tracks to ( Read more... )

"Viking Ship Made of Ice-Cream Sticks to Sail"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_dutch_ship

http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/ 

Slate (no doubt influenced by my previous blog post) is now commenting on news pornography....

http://www.slate.com/id/2183032/nav/tap3/