Question 1: Make some commonplace observations about our everyday world, full as it is of metastable interacting self-organized entities driven by various energy sources ( Read more... )

"Vell, it seems ve are rustic on our serious."

If there is someone on your friends list you would love to have an epic, sweaty, damn near legendary, 12 hour fuckathon with, post this same exact sentence in your journal.

I've been making an effort to bond with my fellow grad students, which means hanging out with them in the bar. They like to talk about 'nice racks' and the like, but then pause awkwardly and clumsily apologize whenever they say something inappropriate. I felt that was excluding me from the group, so I told them I can appreciate a nice rack and ( Read more... )

Whitehouse.org is so cool. Among their 2004 campaign bumper stickers:

Bush-Christ '04
Enron-Haliburton '04
Bush-Eat the Poor '04
Moron-Psycho '04

and, of course,

Bush-Sieg Heil! '04

It's raining! In Riverside!

Why does nobody else realize that watching people fight completely, painfully, mind-numbingly boring?

War stories are the worst.

Titus is trying to come up with a Backronym for 'Sophia' or 'Socrates' and thought of using 'Haruspex' for an initial, until he looked it up ( Read more... )

Titus: I have no qualms with being bi. There are advantages to both.

Here, Titus means:

(a) I enjoy having sex with both men and women.
(b) I identify with two unique cultural heritages.
(c) I speak two languages.
(d) I am proficient in both emacs and vi.

Any guesses?

I dreamt last night that Kistina was giving a piano concert at Scripps. At the end she cut through the piano (and half the floor) with a chainsaw. She seemed really happy about that, but the Scripps maintenance guy was a little upset about the floor. I couldn't decide if it was part of the piece ... by John Cage maybe?