Mel Chua is closer to her extended family than I ever have been to mine. Way more of her nearish relatives live in the US than mine do, if I understand correctly. And now she's …
I've had some recent success in using spam as a source for recommendations, but more useful by far were Crooked Timber and Ask Metafilter. Speaking of CT, title ideas for your blog posts and a …
(via wealhtheow): Go to Career Cruising, www.careercruising.com Put in Username: nycareers and Password: landmark. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions. Post the top twenty results Put the careers you have seriously considered in bold. 1. Lobbyist …
When my sister and I were kids, sometimes we would record tapes of ourselves talking, like how some kids put on little skits for and with neighborhood playmates. We'd pretend to be news announcers, plotting …
Surprisingly unappealing: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive. Sort of predictable. Surprisingly rewarding: Psych, Harvard Business Essentials: Strategy.
Today I had my first day of classes, and I tried out the fitness center and tried out for a play. Time to stretch a bit.
Blazing Saddles is a very strange movie. Somehow every time I'd heard of it, I heard about the race and racism jokes but not the insane fourth-wall-breaking. And Gene Wilder's affect reminds me of Zack …
I just watched A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum for the first time, so now I finally get the backstory for Michael Dorn's "Stand aside; I take large steps" Star Trek: …
Part I still holds its own -- when I mention in conversations with friends that ST:TNG debuted a full two decades ago, it always results in a stunned moment of silence. But! There is a …
I finally hounded Leonard into moving to a reliable (read: commercial-grade) hosting provider. So now I can link to funny entries on his blog with confidence that you can click through and read them. I …
