Archive for March, 2011
Dust
Grad School Visit
When I went to my first graduate school visit, I hadn’t been accepted yet. The visit was definitely an interview, even if it wasn’t very formal, and all of my time there was scheduled in advance. I hardly had a moment to myself. My last grad school visit was quite different. I was already accepted, […]
Sunday Song
Victor Deme – Djon Maya (Official Video)Uploaded by skidoo. – Watch more music videos, in HD!
Traditional values
From The Truth by Terry Pratchett: He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where “traditional values” meant “hang someone.”
Sunday Song
The sword of Damocles
From The Truth by Terry Pratchett: “We could live like kings on a dollar a day, Arnold.” “What, you mean someone’d chop our heads off?” “No, I –” “Someone’d climb up inside the privy with a red-hot poker and –” “No! I meant –” “Someone’d drown us in a butt of wine?” “No, that’s dying […]
How to make an awesome poster
Several months ago, my aunt asked me a bunch of questions about climate change. I answered her here in a serious of carefully researched posts, many of which took me hours to write. Her answer? “You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to” with a link to an abc news story insinuating that snow in winter means […]