For 7 weeks now, I've had some kind of weird ... condition. Severe abdominal pain woke me that night at about 3am. I thought I must have food poisoning, got up, threw up. In retrospect, what I was feeling was not nausea, but it's hard to tell sometimes with such pain, and I thought it …
Category Archive: General
Apr 19 2007
Feel my confusion
Example: Tonight I'm sitting on the couch next to Jessica. She is drinking tea out of a heavy corelware mug. Then I hear something that sounds like the cup hitting her skull. Me: "What the hell was that?" "I hit the top of my head with the cup." "[long pause] What?! Why?" "Well, the cup …
Apr 17 2007
A Disturbing Trendline
I found this data on the Gallup website: At this rate, it will take almost 2000 years for americans to come to grips with the fact that they are on their own, developed from lower species, and are an accident of nature. That's a long damned time to accept a well-established scientific fact. Also, check …
Apr 12 2007
Solitudinous Shitting
In the Men's Room on my floor, there are two stalls. The doors each have locks that have a slot on the outside, and could be theoretically manipulated with a screwdriver or some such object. Is it wrong that I have seriously considered locking the stall I'm not using before doing my business? Look, it's …
Mar 27 2007
There's a hazing ritual for any club
As a grad student in physics, I tend to think of myself as completely opposite of a frat guy. I care about knowing things, studying hard, not getting into fights, not any gay stuff. But there is certainly one experience that I share with frat guys. I want to be part of the scientific community. …