August 18, 2009 – 1:06 pm
In my dealings with this personal blog business, I’ve found that microblogging suits my tastes better than regular blogging. I’m updating my Twitter account much more regularly due to the ease of creating posts. I still have an idea for a professional blog coming up, which is yet another reason for the lack of regular [...]
First, they echo the predators who chased our ancestors. You fear the fangs of a vampire the way you fear the fangs of a wolf. That’s an external fear, a fear of the Beast.
Second, they evoke human aggression and human perversion. A vampire looks like a man and yet it is an eater of men [...]
With the commencement address by California’s House member Diane Watson, the 79th annual commencement’s direction at Bennett College had been set. This is an important note as I cannot figure out what a House member from California has to do with Bennett (other than maybe being a black women who had it tough, as noted [...]
April 24, 2009 – 11:14 pm
It was barely 10:00 in the morning and here I was, faced with a serious dilemma which proves an individual’s leadership skills. Well, deciding one way or another probably won’t change earth’s axis if inclination but this was still one of those moments where you have doubts about whether or not it’s really happening.
I had [...]
No, not on filtering spam about Linux out of your inbox. One of the most exciting things that an email junky experiences is opening up their email client and seeing a high count of unread messages. One of the biggest downers is noticing that most or all of those messages are spam. The good news [...]
The dictator game is a very simple game in experimental economics that touches on the altruistic value in humans. The game is simple. You participate for the experiment and are seated in a room along with one of the people running the experiment. They give you ten one dollar bills which you are then allowed [...]
I was fortunate enough to attend a guest lecture by Cornel West at Bennet College on March 26th at the Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel. It appeared to be an open topic lecture, which started off mostly ad-lib and evolved into opines on many broad topics including US politics, the current financial system, racism, black history [...]
If it smells, it’s chemistry. If it moves, it’s biology. If it doesn’t work, it’s physics.
March 22, 2009 – 12:26 pm
Beware when you’re at Ruby Tuesday and they ask if you’d like cheese on the mashed potatoes and vegetables; it’s $2 each. In other words, cheese on the mashed potatoes is $2 extra and cheese on the vegetables is yet another $2.
The plate of “chicken bella” which was $9 cost an extra $4 because they [...]
You may have seen this already posted in a billion other blogs out on the net. But in case you haven’t…
What the truest definition of globalization? Princess Diana’s death.
Why?
An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk [...]