December 2007
After more than 15 years and $14.8 billion, Boston’s Big Dig project officially ends today. A study by the Turnpike Authority found the Big Dig cut the average trip through Boston from 19.5 minutes to 2.8 minutes. Given the number of people moving through the area each day and how much time is saved, $14.8 billion doesn’t seem like such a huge amount. -Kottke.org Jason may have a...
Finally got to see No Country for Old Men. It was unbelievable. Remind me to start reading Cormac McCarthy novels.
“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. Prostitutes know this...”
– John Irving
My room at my parent’s house is totally a time capsule from my senior year of high school. A few of my friends have mentioned the same. Is this a universal phenomenon? At least among those of us who moved away?
“The real joy of morning is not the return of the light, but the confirmation...”
– Joe Reynolds
I've heard a lot of debate about what exactly...
Tumblr is blogging for people who don’t like writing. The way Tumblr is set up there is no longer the expectation for long, drawn out text posts. You can still make those (see: many of my posts) but it doesn’t seem as expected of you. You could almost as easily make short, media-centric posts with blogger or Wordpress(See: Kottke.org, zachklein.com,) but the usual expectation was for...
Warning: Rambling abounds
My first semester of grad school is over thankfully. This term has been much more exhausting and time consuming then I ever thought possible. It feels like such an abrupt change of pace from undergrad, which had me casually making straight “A”s and impressing professors. Now, I’m really struggling to just pass my classes and I honestly have moments of doubt as to whether I will...
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Finally saw the movie Knocked Up. I really enjoyed...
Reblog of a very sweet story. I feel like I've...
Last night as I was settling into bed around 1, my neighbor Lauren came home. We share a fairly thin wall, and sometimes I can hear what’s going on over there. Last night was a whole different story. She was SCREAMING on the phone about some guy who had been a jerk to her. I could hear every single word, and it sounded like a rough night. I couldn’t get to sleep at all. When her...
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Oscar Brown Jr.-“But I Was Cool” This...
It just occured to me
It just occured to me that they check IDs much more rigorously at the liquor store then at airport security.
I think at some point this morning I finally hit...
I was beginning to wonder if this would ever happen. In a way it is convenient because I’m leaving for the airport in a few hours. Hopefully I’ll make it to Atlanta in one piece. I still need to pack. At the moment I’ve once again kept my self awake for a good 40 hours or so. This will be the last time for a while, I promise.
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Boston College Microfilm Archive →
this place is crazy, especially if you think about the fact that 10 years ago this is the way that almost all periodicals were archived. I felt like I was in some old-fashioned movie.
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Update on (Lack of) Sleeping Habits
So last week I mentioned that I had been up for 40 consecutive hours, well it turns out that little marathon of consciousness lasted a little bit longer than that. 88 hours was the final count. That’s not a typo. I went without any sleep for 3.67 Days. I’m still kind of in utter disbelief. But I broke down the numbers a little bit: Period of no sleep: 9 a.m. Monday, Dec.10 to...
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We recently got some junk mail addressed to "Dr....
“Sometimes life can feel like a lonely highway, walking alone listening to your...”
– Cex Sometimes life requires loneliness.
RIP Carleton Atwater's bangs 1984-2007
I desperately need a haircut. As much as I hate to admit it my days of longish/shaggy hair are over forever. I’ve been losing my hair for a few years now, which is fine. I try to not make a big deal out of it, or hide it, but I still try to not make it look completely obvious. As my hairline receives further and further up my forehead this is getting harder and harder to do while still...
Finals Week Update: I am now entering my 40th...
Reblog: Eggers Rant
I had read and enjoyed this rant a few years ago when I read it, but I just stumbled upon it again today. I think he talks a lot about not letting the judgments of others play into your everyday decision making. Anyway I could never do it justice so I will post my favorite part here: The thing is, I really like saying yes. I like new things, projects, plans, getting people together and doing...
Brought to you by French Press Coffee &...
Tonight around 7 o’clock as I headed to campus to hand in the first of my three term papers I realized that it was the first time leaving my apartment in over 48 hours. This is by far one of the most ridiculous finals period I’ve ever experienced. thankfully though it has not been one of the most stressful. This is a photo of me locking my wireless modem in the mailbox, because...
One of the most frustrating things about pulling an all nighter to write a term paper is that usually at some point, generally around the first signs of dawn, I realize how interesting my topic actually is and that if I had given myself enough time I could have easily writen a much better and more engaging paper than the slapdash affair I have hastily thrown together over many cups of coffee and...
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Reblog of two unrelated posts by Jakob: "Negative... →
These are two separate posts by Jakob Lodwick, but I’m drawing a connection between two of them. This is long, but I think, interesting and worth it. A while ago, I took a hard stance on alcohol. I told my friends and I blogged about it a little. Some friends, especially Ricky, made fun of me because many times in the past I’ve taken hard stances against my vices, completely wiping them...
From Some Guys Tumblr: The DubCorp Business Model...
So I have been thinking a lot about my business model lately as well as the traditional paradigms for e-commerce sites. Typically, on the internet, people strive to be the best. They want to create the “next big” thing; the killer app that will revolutionize the way people buy or communicate online. In short, they want to be the #1 in their category, whatever that may happen to be. ...
"Nervous" Follow up
The Good News: My arm nerves are perfectly healthy, in fact even better than when they last tested them. The Bad News: They still have no idea how to treat me FUN FACT: My wrist jumped a good 6 inches into the air during one of the electric shocks
"Nervous"
Tomorrow morning, I am going in for a Nerve Conduction Study, where they send electrical signals through my arms to test the health of my nerves. I am nervous for it because it will be painful (electricity!) but at the same time, I really want to know what’s going on with my arm. I hope this will tell me. To be honest, I am kind of hoping for a bad diagnosis becauseif it’s bad that...
Sudden Realization (a dim bulb brightens)
Working on something, regardless of what it is, or how important, for long projected amount of time is absolutely no good for me. I’m simply unable to maintain focus and so my ability to get things done dissipates rapidly. This is why I’ve been staying up for days and not getting anywhere with my term paper on Melville’s poetry. I need to work on something else so I can come...
Let's do a little status report:
• Current Time: 4:03 a.m. • Number of 20 page papers I have due in one week: 2 • Number of pages I’ve written so far: 4 • Amount of time I’ve spent working on these assignments tonight: Zero • Amount of time I’ve spent dicking around on Wikipedia and Youtube tonight: Quite a bit • Amount of money the teaching fellowship I’ve applied for is worth: Let’s just say a...
Update on ice walking: Today I saw women in high...
How do people run on ice?
Honestly, this is something that completely baffles me. Last night we got the first snowstorm of the season and consequently today’s sidewalks were icy and slippery. As a result I’ve had to resort to my patented “Winter Walk” which includes carefully stepping at a snail’s pace because any faster and I will surely fall on my ass. Yet again though tonight as I was...