I’m not lazy, I swear

Posted by jillian under fun

I know I haven’t written in awhile, I’ve been busy. But that’s what happens to graduate students, especially ones who realize that they can’t milk their stipend for all eternity. Write a dissertation before I go? Was that part of the deal? Sigh.
Even graduate students need a little humor in their lives, and Yahoo News does a […]

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Maybe The Coolest Robot Ever

Posted by adam under fun, tech

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XM nation, you are driving me crazy

Posted by jillian under fun, tech

I love my XM radio. It has single-handedly quelled my testy demeanor during the aggravating 1/2 hour trek around monstrous potholes and through clouds of apoptotic-inducing truck emissions on my way to school.
Lately, however, my XM has become quite nefarious. Temperamental. Traitorous. Why? It has started picking up signals from other cars, leaving me to listen to the […]

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Part I in the series of ‘dialogue on matters of relationships’

Posted by lily under fun, health

Relationship, love, and chemistry do not need to be all present when you have a lover.  Today, I am opining on what makes and breaks the lover’s bond.
Forming a relationship requires very little.  Two people with mutual agreement to be together will have a relationship.  The basis for the agreement can be anything such as […]

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Verbophobia: who’s afraid of a big, bad word?

Posted by jillian under fun

A friend was recently complaining about a colleague’s overuse of large words, saying that it rendered his sentences to a nearly incomprehensible level. The verbal killjoy then proceeded to state that the only reason this person used big, scary words was to make himself look (and feel) intelligent.
I took a little bit of offense to […]

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