YO DAWGS I'M IN MANILA.
Do what you want with this information.
Yeah. I think the air is alive. It seems to be breathing with me, stupid humid air.
Also, the most amazing programming language ever. No, I'm serious.

esmeraldus_neo is runninga  meme propogation experiment. Yall should participate. :)

Brief instructions:

1. Write a post linking to this one in which you explain the experiment. (All blogs count, be they TypePad, Blogger, MySpace, Facebook, etc.)
2. Ask your readers to do the same. Beg them. Relate sob stories about poor graduate students in desperate circumstances ( Read more... )

So I had thanksgiving dinner at EvilCorp this week, and it was a pretty sexy apartment (it's actually a rather large converted artist loft, so lots of funky angles). Still under construction though ( Read more... )

So, my new scientific calculator is the most gratuitous thing ever. I love it already ( Read more... )

Kathy: Eric, entertain me.
Eric: [lounging on Kathy's bed] It's hard to entertain you when you're doing a pset.
Sharmin: [brightly] You could run around in circles, that would be amusing.
Kathy: Yeah, that would  be amusing ( Read more... )

OMG Xanga Footprints... like IP logging but SO MUCH WORSE. Seriously. Apparently this person and also this person found me from the Xanga search for hentai. THERE IS NO PRIVACY LEFT IN THE WORLD
[evil laughter]
Also, Xanga supports tags now, but my lj is tagged, so if you want tags just go here. But still. You have to love Xanga for being kind of ( Read more... )

For all you non MIT peeps...
Behold, evidence, IN PICTURE FORM, that it is the most awesome ever.
Seriously, a kilogram of sodium in the Charles River.

Hey, remember those amusing stories going around the net about how Dell laptops were bursting into flames and exploding?


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Hey Forbes, this should make you happy:
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop New Type of Mobile Robot That Balances and Moves on a Ball Instead of Legs or Wheels
(longest headline ever, omg)Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball instead of legs or wheels. "Ballbot" is a self-contained ( Read more... )

Sharmin: OMG, libertarians
Sharmin: It's like, I call myself a libertarian sometimes, but I’d be deathly afraid of going to any organization or meeting that was affiliated with libertarianism
Hanna: Oh, I get you.
Hanna: It's like, I like Nietzsche, but I try to stay away from it.
Sharmin: hahah
Sharmin: I like the idea of Nietzsche but I don't ( Read more... )