From "The West Wing:"JACOBS: I don’t say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does ( Read more... )

March ice storms: the perfect time for some afternoon shortwave radio listening. Russian soccer match: 3.85 MHz; British aerial weather forecasting: 3.4 MHz. Endless string of static-obscured numbers read by an electronic voice: 22.0 MHz on the dot.

Quote of the day: "... 013 253 366 266 255 break 255 865 832 485 020..."

"Net neutrality is this: if I pay to connect to the Net with a given quality of service, and you pay to connect to the Net with the same or a better quality of service, then you and I can connect to the Net with that quality of service. That's all."

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and current director of the World Wide Web ( Read more... )

It took me only eight hours to slam out - from scratch - a simple HTML/CSS page that is infinitely more presentable than the Word's. Somehow, someone was convinced that giving upwards of $2,000 to a CS student for completely unsupervised summer work on a newspaper's website was just a splendid idea. I can't even find out what the original ( Read more... )

I just spent an hour and a half answering one part of one question for my Economic Development homework. I hate that "must show your work" has become such an educational default, as if that's the only method of verification possible. In this case, showing my work means making presentable (for this part of this problem only; there's more to come ( Read more... )

The full text of Barack Obama's MLK, Jr. Day speech:

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The unexpected nightmare horrors of "Silent Hill" (movie and game alike);
The combat fear from Band of Brothers;
The tumultuous panic of American zombie-horror...

... have nothing on "Cloverfield." Don't read up on it, just go see it based on what you've seen in trailers. The warm, human cinema verite-type feel carried in the first twenty or so ( Read more... )

Came back at 1, stayed up trying to fall asleep until 4, woke up at 9, and now I'm unable to go back to bed. I've gotten 9.5 hours of sleep over the last three days or so.

But at least I tried, right?

I've been non-stop busy since two weeks before Thanksgiving. I have no sleep schedule at all, and it's all because of my classes... each one requires a final project instead of a final exam, and rough drafts of those projects. I'm juggling # major things, so "be sure to get some sleep" really doesn't cut it now. If I put something on the back ( Read more... )

After a two-hour-long discussion with Monteze - far more a "discourse among peers" (her words) than a critique of my somewhat meager 8-page rough draft ( Read more... )