Nov
24th
Tue
24th
Although, if you managed to find my little blog here, you probably do too.
True story.
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Just booked my flight(s) for my winter field study in Nairobi!
We’re flying Emirate Airlines, which has a reputation for being awesome. So far, so good. I mean, just look at all these different options I can choose from for my in-flight meal. It’s been so long since I have a bland meal on a flight, I’m glad there’s an airline that allows me to specifically request one.
Even awesomer than the meal options, Emirate lets you add a stopover in Dubai to your itinerary at no extra cost. I’m pretty wary of Dubai, but I figure I might as well take the opprotunity to see it for myself. Besides, doing climate-specific outdoor sports in places where they shouldn’t be possible is pretty much one of my favorite hobbies, and Dubai’s basically the capital of that. So, in conclusion, I’m going to fly 7,000 miles to go skiing in the middle of the Arabian Desert - take that, energy crisis!
Nov
21st
Sat
21st
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
[The upcoming relaunch of the Large Hadron Collider] will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
Holy trippy science, Batman!
Nov
20th
Fri
20th
“Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, welcomed their seventh grandchild, Sarah Lynne Cheney, Wednesday, November 18, 2009. She weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz and was born at 8:17 A.M. at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C. Her parents are the Cheney’s daughter Mary and her partner, Heather Poe.”
Many congratulations to the Cheney family. And congratulations on the word “parents.”
Dear newest roommate,
I know you own pants.
I’ve seen you wear them before, albeit rarely.
Please make use of them more often. Preferably, all the time.
Sincerely,
the girl in the next bedroom over, who is rapidly going blind.
Nov
19th
Thu
19th
- Me: Facebook just sent me an ad for becoming a JAG officer. How did they know?!
- Julian: They know you're graduating law school, they know what state you're from and they know who your friends are. People are predictable.
- Me: No way that should be predictable. Based on my internet behavior I'm a flaming liberal hippie.
- Me: I wonder if facebook wire-tapped our apartment?
- Julian: Dude no one wire-tapped our apartment, we're not that interesting. Can you imagine listening to our convos about Miley Cyrus, football and Wall-E all day?
- Julian: The answer is yes because that's our life.
One of my college buddies just asked for advice on incorporating his new small business venture: Piss Off, Inc.
I miss my college buddies.
Nov
17th
Tue
17th
This is one of the best things ever.
(The embed doesn’t work so you’ll have to click over to youtube to watch. It’s worth it, I promise.)
Nov
12th
Thu
12th
Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks
I love it when Onion headlines fool me into thinking they’re real headlines.
