I found out today that I won't have a Russian final, even though Zhenia told us that the past three days' tests wouldn't count for anything unless we did very well. Wheee! Okay, then, I …
Okay redux. Contacting my sister: done. Bouquet for Zhenia: bought and given. Russian test: taken. The secret errand: done for now. I'm not going to go home, to get my phone or to get library …
Slashdot Science headline: Global Warming Mostly Confirmed - On Mars, That Is! Cinzia, my classmate in Russian and a graduate student in sociology, spells "moola" as "mula."
It's Friday, the last day of classes, and today I get to hear about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the search for extraterrestrial life, and in Kandahar Taliban forces are surrendering. Why am I …
Steve likes "slothful induction" (cf. the giant list of fallacies) because of the image it conjures: huge furry three-toed animals debating propositions of logic. I still haven't perused the list. Every time I look at …
BreakupGirl.com. LaughPage.com. Important, popular, useful sites that I visited perhaps a hundred times. Gone, gone.
I finished The One Best Way yesterday evening. I enjoyed it, although Kanigel rather maddeningly draws no concrete conclusions about the benefits and disadvantages of Taylorism today. At least he presents much evidence and argument …
Wow, the Amtrak.com website has improved its usability greatly since I last had to interface with it. I can now recommend it! My classmate Jeff Good, graduate student in linguistics: "there are limits to my …
Allow me to retract my earlier comment. The weather has had no effect whatsoever on the logic of my blues. If today had been as sunny as delight, I would have thought, "what an opposite-of-inspiring …
After I queried Leonard on his favorite logical fallacy (send me yours!), he sent me a link to a giant list of fallacies. Oi, how depressing. I probably commit six of these before breakfast.
