dan (guy I live with) got into the master's program (meng) at MIT, where he's a senior now. this means he's staying here and we're continuing to live together indefinitely for the time being. good for him. excellent news overall, especially as it was the only program he half-heartedly applied to, and was thinking of getting a job instead ( Read more... )

A week ago I got a pet rat: he's still very young (6 weeks? the petstore owner claimed older, but he lied about that and many other things) and is a hooded rat with a white body and agouti hood. he's gotten over his initial fear and is now very friendly. it's great that dan and I are finally moving into a double from a single as now we'll have more ( Read more... )

"Sometimes I also intuit, in the midst of that masked and manic carnival, reverberated by techno beats, a kind of ambivalence over the human state; a sense of insufficiency, a yearning for transcendence.
The greatest party in the world is also a wake for this world." - Daniel Pinchbeck, Breaking Open the Head

Amusingly, DJ Voodoo (vs. The Liquid Method, but anyway) has a track called "Everybody Thinks I'm high and I am". It is so correct that DJ Voodoo exists. (and it's a good breakbeat track too).

Stimulant amphetamines are more beautiful and terrible than the mind can comprehend. They are the Answer, they are Zen, and they are trash and filth and good-for-nothing, too. On them, there is no spoon. But the body begins to fail so quickly, so pleasantly. I love them even when I hate them ( Read more... )

"Have you ever considered freedoms? The only real freedom is the freedom from the opinion of others, and even from the opinion of yourself..." - Colonel Kurtz, Apocalypse Now

the human brain and its conditioned cues....
I never thought that a pill bottle smelling of root beer would ever make me so excited.

"The soul should always stand ajar
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

-Emily Dickinson

www.thedea.org - good for the man who made this site! "mad props" or whatever it is that humans like to say .

There are several reports online stating that pre-loading with Piracetam before taking MDMA, or taking the two together, significantly enhances duration, intensity, and other positive qualities of MDMA. Piracetam on its own and in this combination does not reliably produce any subjective effects whatsoever, although some people tentatively claim it ( Read more... )

Fuck yeah! So, recent developments ( Read more... )