My emphasis below. For undergraduate students who are admitted to universities that have closed because of Hurricane Katrina: Stanford will be admitting academically qualified students from these universities as non-matriculated students for the fall quarter, which starts on September 26…
Year: 2005
Big but not Easy
Not to put too fine a point on it: New Orleans is fucked. If you haven’t already, please make a donation to any relief organization now working in Louisiana or Mississippi. Yes, I know you would like to do something…
I’m super, thanks for asking
Smallville, the sad excuse for a TV series currently polluting the airwaves, begins its new season on September 29th. The WB has released some new promotional posters, including one with images of Superboy wannabe Tom Welling and new recurring guest…
And you’re worried about earthquakes?
Every so often, I’ll tell someone from out of state that I live in California, and they’ll ask me if I’m concerned about the “Big One” that seismologists predict will hit sometime in the next few decades. I’m not. Because…
Index-Fu: HDTV
(with apologies to John Rogers) Here’s all the research I’ve done on HDTV over the past couple of years. Starred(*) entries are more informative: I like snarky FAQsHow Much For Just The TV?*The Death of QualityBlack FlagI just want to…
And boy, are my arms tired
My team and I flew back from Seattle last night after playing in The Mooncurser’s Handbook Game. This was the first Seattle-based Game we’d played in, and it was fun to see new locations and interact with a slightly different…
Leaving, on a jet plane
I’m headed up to Seattle to play in The Mooncurser’s Handbook Game this weekend. I’m excited and curious, since it’s being run out of the original Game community spawned by Joe Belfiore— albeit not by Joe himself. One of the…
It’s a Gay World After All
WARNING: The following contains explicit language and graphic descriptions of sex. You can thank me later. Funny: I’ve been having a real problem with these homosexuals. You see, just about wherever I go these days, one of them approaches me…
A Happy Ending
This absolutely made my day. Really. I’m over the moon. I first blogged about this last October in “Lame Excuse of the Day”, and though it took a while, reason has finally triumphed: [The] Miami artist… much maligned for 11…
dude, your paper is all wet
Man, how cool is this? Nanotechnology start-up Ecology Coatings says it has developed a spray-on coating that, when properly dried, waterproofs materials–but still allows them to be written on… [T]he coating… made the paper waterproof without making it waxy, brittle…