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    All Your Bandwidth Belong to Us

    You know what’s freaky? When the people you normally watch end up watching you. Ever since I made a passing comment to a certain cute CS major as he was stumbling around my floor like a lost lamb and he had the chance to mentally connect me with the person that had left a comment on his site and a fellow CS major, he’s been watching me. It’s hella weird. Everytime I turn around, if he’s present, he’s watching me. And it needs to stop. That may sound really hypocritcal, given that I’m not above some staring myself, but first, I suspect the reasons behind his observant behavior are different…

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    For the Chemistry Folks

    Yes, Hannah, that means you. I just had the weirdest thing happen with a soda (a 20-oz Dr. Pepper). It had been sitting in my freeze-anything-in-30-minutes-freezer for a couple of hours. When my pizza arrived, I pulled it out, only to find it still liquid (I was aiming for slushy). I shook it, to verify it’s liquid-ness. As soon as I loosened the cap, however, the drink began to solidify (in a downward wave, no less) into the slushy I wanted. Hella weird. I’ve seen it happen with water, too. My first thought was of pressure and temperature, but I know I don’t know what I’m talking about, ‘cuz those…

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    Yoo-hoo!

    Yup, still alive. Just for the record, there are few things more disorienting that being woken up to a phone ringing, and having the call be a wrong number. *Ring, Ring* [I vault out of bed, thinking something bad has happened to the Roommate on her trip or to my mother, due just having a weird, completely unrelated nightmare…] Lissa: ‘Ello?Dude: Hey! How’s it going?Lissa: [Is this a telemarketer? No one else asks how I’m doing. Or one of Bridgy’s friends? The voice could be William’s…] Uh, well. Who is this?Dude: Good. Is this Marie?Lissa: [Is this guy throwing a party in the background? That’s just fucking rude. And who…

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    What a Gender-Bender…

    According to this, my writing style indicates I am male. I plugged in all 4556 words written for the month of October on this blog (and each entry separately), and all are consistently masculine. Admittedly, this is a “simplified” version of the real algorithm (and the stats on its success aren’t great, either), but it’s interesting, nonetheless. Worthy of a giggle. [Listening to: The Outsider – A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step (04:06)]

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    Responsibility’s a Good Thing, Right?

    I just had an… interesting… evening with NSBE. I was supposed to propose a design for a new chapter website this past weekend, but events beyond my control conspired to keep the meeting from happening. Lucky for me, as I was sick all weekend and didn’t get the design done. Today after classes, though, I sat down and did a rudimentary, plain design (are mine ever anything other than this?), including a lot of the content already, on the not-so-quiet hint from The Other One to just go ahead and do the website, bypassing the Communications Officer. Not my usual modus operandi, but I know how that inertia thing goes……