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 [...]
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 [...]
March 11, 2009 – 12:32 pm
Over the past few years in an effort to stymie innovation to their industry, the content providers — the RIAA, MPAA, et al — have gone on a relentless pursuit to sue anyone and everyone involved in any sort of file sharing which resulted in unauthorized distribution of their copyrighted works (I will refrain from [...]
February 28, 2009 – 11:48 pm
The instructions recommend that in cases where reading them raises a question that you hook up a one-mile extension cord to the IKEA store and hold the phone up to your ear. I don’t know how that’s supposed to solve your confusion — I mean, you can’t even dial anyone as the phone receiver is [...]
February 26, 2009 – 12:00 pm
The financial state of the United States as of late has been anything but stellar, in fact it can better be described as nosediving. But where did this financial crisis arise from? What actions prompted so many banks to give out ever-increasingly risky loans? Why were so many banks and other companies climbing over each [...]
February 12, 2009 – 3:10 pm
A peculiar, one-in-a-lifetime occurrence in computer science is upon us: Friday, February 13th, 2009 UNIX time will reach 1,234,567,890 at exactly 18:31:30 EST. UNIX time is a measure of time that’s counted in the number of seconds since 00:00:00 January 1st 1970 UTC. If you want to find out the correct time for your timezone, [...]
January 5, 2009 – 2:11 pm
From a NY Waterway ad campaign:
Life is full of surprises, like your husband coming home from work and beating you again, but your commute shouldn’t be.