Archive for March, 2011

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.”

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 […]