January 2009
41 posts
Sarah and I Went on Wine Library TV →
I enjoyed watching this, mainly because of the faces Sarah and Streeter make when the host tells them they got something right.
streeter:
Now, I don’t know much about wine but damn, this was a fun time. Gary totally shocked Sarah and I right off the bat with his energy (watch Sarah’s face at the beginning) and generously gave us a bunch of wine on our way out. Sometimes a trip to NJ is worth...
I found the following two gems within a page of each other in my cosmology book (Introduction to Cosmology, by Barbara Ryden):
“It doesn’t take a brilliant observer to confirm that the universe contains a variety of different things: shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, kings, galaxies, and what have you.”
“Protons and neutrons are 800-pound gorillas; electrons are only...
I sent an email two nights ago with a list of song...
From the new CH show website
“Next Episode: Rival Site When Patrick is stolen by rival website GiggleBarn.biz, Ricky embarks on a quest… to make sure the CollegeHumor office is as “cool” as possible.” Ok, this sounds awesome. I can’t wait.
This is one of my fave songs to sing.
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If I were a Sociology Ph. D. candidate, my dissertation would be “On the Sociology of Pimps and Hos.” My professors seem to like/think the coolest sociological writings are by rich white ethnographers trying to figure out how poor (usually black) people work. Plus, they like big overextended words and sentences, but like it even better when those sentences are preceded by a short...
The new NYS senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, went to my high school. NBD.
Christian Bale vs. Kermit the Frog →
No wonder I like him so much!
(via jess-agi)
I have battered-wife syndrome from Lost. I really, really do.
That's progress, I suppose.
It’s been a while, and they removed my “Staff” tag, so I changed my CH user profile from saying “Casey is an Editern!” to “Casey WAS an editern!”
I have to know this before it’s actually my birthday (Feb. 6th, fyi): is it rude to not respond personally to every post on your Facebook wall wishing you happy birthday?
Why aren't there more women in science, especially... →
I’ll tell you why— a female physics major’s peers are creepers and snobs.
Fox has proclaimed Obama’s speech to have been “okay.” I’m guessing their least favorite parts were coincidentally also my most favorite: when he invoked the embarrassing, unforgivable shittiness of the Bush administration. Fuck you, Fox.
I can’t describe how good it feels to see my country so happy about something.
Land of the Lost movie with Will Ferrell? →
I don’t know whether to be really excited or really disappointed.
“On Nestor Carbonell’s (playing Richard Alpert) seemingly heavy use of...”
– This article. I had a lot of dolls in my youth; even their collective lash count couldn’t hold a candle to Richard Alpert’s.
I just happened to look on my AIM buddy list at the group that contains all my own screen names. One of them— I am not making this up— is “laying pullet”. What is wrong with me?
“We will read about crime, colonialism, state formation, the samurai, crack...”
– The syllabus for my Sociology class this semester. I am particularly excited about the crack babies.
The entirety of the MTV series Undressed-- that's... →
It has come to my attention that I will watch a lot of TV if it is available. I’ll watch good TV almost indefinitely. So, it’s necessary to test my limits and curb my TV-watching by watching bad shows, in the hopes that I won’t be able to tolerate them for longer than a few episodes.
Complaint #346
I used to feel respect for companies that had the sense of fairness to list the US in its proper alphebetical order. More recently, I just find it annoying.
whitewhine:
“Ugh, I hate when you have to select a country from a dropdown menu and United States isn’t the first option!” -Whine by Eve
The ultimate bad movie
Would be a sequel to 1984, called 1985, based on the Bowling for Soup song of the same name.
Daily Routines →
I love getting up early. My dad used to get up at 4:30 everyday, a habit he developed because he took the train from Flushing to midtown Manhattan to get to school. The problem is that everyone at college (roommates) think you’re weird and/or annoying if you a) go to bed before midnight, or b) wake up before noon.
rickyv:
Saw this on the wonderful VeryShortList today. One thing you’ll...
I don’t like living alone, and here’s why. You start to feel like the proverbial tree in the forest. If no one is around to hear you watch entire seasons of TV shows in your underwear, do you still actually exist? Probably not.
Will Smith to play Barack Obama as US president in... →
Jessica Agi: She says things, and they happen. Coincidence?
What has two thumbs and is going to see Dave...
THIS GUY!
“I wonder if Burress watched Sunday’s game; I wonder if he had a sense of...”
– The NYT on the Giants’ loss. I’m going to go ahead and guess the former. Note, world: it doesn’t matter how many brilliant receivers there are if Eli can’t throw.
“R is similar to other programming languages, like C, Java and Perl, in that it...”
– The NYT on R. I was just bored to death by that sentence.
Finally! →
Dual validation that I am not crazy to want to do Walden all over again!! The city makes you dumb!
(via Slashdot here)
An open letter to most, if not all, chain...
Just put the mahi-mahi on the menu. It’s not a special if it’s the only special you ever have and you have it ALL the time, which you do. Cut it out.
While doing practice GRE questions, I came across this quote: “For thermo, in general, there’s an old slacker’s pride line that goes like, ‘When in doubt, write a bunch of equations of states and mindlessly begin taking exact differentials. Without exerting much brainpower, one will quickly arrive at a brilliant result.’” This, very sadly, perfectly describes...
New Years' Resolutions
1. If I don’t get a 4.0 this coming semester, I’m going to get a good smacking around from myself.
2. Continue good work grasping desperately at research straws.
3. Solve Rubik’s cube.
4. Manage my paltry income like not an idiot.