Monthly Archives: October 2003

Last night my Astronomy professor, who is young and new to his trade, brought candy for the class as sort of a pre-emptive apology for next week’s midterm. All through the lecture, I watched the teeny tiny skater boys in front of me dropping stick after stick from their Tootsie Pops ™ on the floor … Continue reading »

It’s tough to wrap my plastic elastic head around this “forever” concept. I keep thinking, Oh God, it’s so sad, Elliott Smith is dead and there will be no more music. But then I comfort myself by thinking, At least there will be music again when he stops being dead.

Thanks to everyone who saw the news and thought to let me know.

“And if you go way, way back in ancient Chinese texts, you find references to this all over the place,” said my cowboy boss. “It’s the reason that Chinese people tend to have a bigger gap between their thumbs and first fingers.” “So, what you’re telling me is…” “Way back in B.C., Chinese people had … Continue reading »

Written in response to this article, which really should be read first. Will teens stop using electricity? I first heard about using my parents’ electricity in middle school. Up until that point, I had assumed that my television and toaster were being run by a small, surly gnome that lived in the wall. But in … Continue reading »