“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”
Sally Kempton

Why am I so happy right now?  I haven't been this happy at WPI in ages ( Read more... )

In Tibet, there is a small mammal, a predator that eats mice and other small rodents. When it wants to catch a mouse, it sits at the entrance to the mouse hole as if it is meditating and waits. Then, when a mouse sticks its head out, the bigger creature grabs it. 'There must be more in there,' he thinks. 'Rather than eat this one now, I’ll save it ( Read more... )

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. - D.H. Lawrence

So I've been doing the daily Sudoku in the paper. I've gotten pretty good, and pretty fast. Today I was like "oh boy! I'm going to whip this one out- it's only thursday, so it's 4/5 stars of difficulty." I only put in one number after twenty minutes. How miserable ( Read more... )

Zeno was a gigantic asshole.

also, fuck caffeine

Someone I know wrote: "What has helped encourage me when I’m in a bad mood is reading lots of books that remind me of what I believe."

I'm thinking about the stuff I tend to read that reminds me of what I believe.  Sadly, it's often been the stuff I stumble onto.  A lot of shit about our police state.  It's not conductive to a positive mindset.  ( Read more... )

Really good article titled "The science of love"
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/econ669/love.html

quote: “We were not built to be happy but to reproduce.”

"I have a real problem being a man in the '90s... Any man with any sensitivity or conscience toward the opposite sex would have a problem. To actually assert yourself in a masculine way without looking like you're in a hard-rock band is a very difficult thing to do." - Thom Yorke, 1993. (Lead singer of radiohead.)