Category Archive: General

Feb 28 2007

The most perfect cookie

You may think that your favorite Girl Scout Cookie is the Thin Mint, but I am here to tell you that you only think this because you have never tried the Lemonades--they're shortbread cookies dipped in lemon, and they are the most delicious cookie I've ever had. I could easily have eaten the whole box …

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Feb 22 2007

Piled Higher and Deeper

This comic is absurdly, uncannily accurate. Here are some other great ones. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=167 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=174 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=214 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=229 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=238 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=242 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=246 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=252 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=286 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=438 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=458 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=487 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=515 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=562 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=581 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=602 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=720 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=735 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=756 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=761 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=782 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=798 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=813

Feb 21 2007

How could you possibly think I would care?

Does everyone have This Guy at work? The guy who has to tell you every. single. fucking. detail. of everything he does? Live! In real time! Because it's infuriating. It's one thing if you ask for my help with an issue--I have no problem rendering assistance if I'm not busy with anything else--but of course, …

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Feb 10 2007

Mystery

Last night the weirdest thing happened to me--I was mostly asleep in the bed, and all of a sudden I was awake and the bed seemed to be vibrating. I thought maybe it was a really small earthquake, but it didn't really seem like one, and it seemed to stop when I picked up my …

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Jan 25 2007

What I want to be when I grow up

Many of the talks I go to are absolutely wretched. Between the crackpots, the over-technical wonks, the english-challenged theoreticians, and the overly-excited interdisciplinarians, it begins to get wearing after awhile. But last week, we had a talk that really got me excited. This speaker has what is, in my mind, the ideal life. Harry Kroto, …

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