→ The People Who Owned the Bible - An interesting little horror story about copyright (just in time for Halloween!) Danny sent me a few years ago. I found it when I was cleaning up the remnants of an old blog I used to keep. It's really worth the (short) read. :/: 1 Comment »
→ The Fix - Sho points me to the Washington Post's The Fix - very much like the Election Scorecard I talked about here. Be sure to check out the interactive Midterm Madness, which lets you visualize who controls the houses of Congress based on your picks for individual races. :/: 1 Comment »
→ Slate’s “Election Scorecard” - Just in time for the midterm elections, a website I've been hooked on for the last few weeks that outlines recent changes in polls. I especially like the "momentum meter". :/: No Comments »
JenSB, STN, and I made jack-o-lanterns yesterday!
STN’s Jack Skellington jack-o-lantern [the one on the left] came out particularly well.
While we’re on the subject of pictures, photos from Chris and my trip down to Northampton/Amherst for our Oxford summer program reunion are online here. I really liked the area, which makes me happy that I’m […]
Will my generation care about their high school reunions? If I can hop on Facebook and see what that cute girl is up to these days, is it worth traveling to a physical reunion? It seems to me as though the fun part of a reunion would be seeing the surprising things people […]
Last night, Mark decided that I was stressing out too much about the GRE (which I am taking in less than 3 hours…). In order to keep it off my mind, he was benevolent enough to declare that any use of the letters “g” “r” or “e”, or the sounds that they make, would […]
Not fickle courses, mind you. Just that the tests are fickle, and there will be something about courses in this post.
I may be influenced largely by the fact that I’m taking the GRE (or as Danny called it, the ToD) on Friday, but I’m even further convinced than before that standardized testing is a […]