Daydream Believer

Woohoo! I just joined the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). I feel cool. Aside from the Association for Women in Science, this is my first professional membership. They actually publish a real journal, Technology and Culture, so I guess this feels more real. I’m growing up…
Oooh, I should [...]

I’m supposed to read the second half of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents right now, so that I can devote my whole day tomorrow to reading a 400-page book on the American System of Mass Production, but meh. Despite the fact that I’m avoiding it, though, I keep thinking about part of the first [...]

Ok, this is going to be a bit of a ranting post, but its a necessity. I cannot stand classes where you leave thinking to yourself, “What in the world was I supposed to get out of those last two hours?” It’s my pet peeve. I applaud teachers and professors for performing [...]

Ok…upon more viewing of some choice episodes, Eduardo might replace Bloo as my favorite character. Bloo is definitely the cutest cutest cutest, but Eduardo is SO VERY SWEET!!!!
“Senor, donde estan mis pants?”

Oh My God Izzie!!

Sometimes kids just don’t “get it” when it comes to their TA – they sometimes think of us as another student, or a buddy-type, when we definitely are not. Last semester I had an issue because one of the students asked my help on a crossword puzzle during class. This morning might have [...]

I’m sure we’ve all heard the urban legend that the average person eats eight spiders a year; they crawl inside our mouths while sleeping.
Well, according to all-lies.com,
You’ll be pleased to hear that this is not true. The only way one could reasonably say that a person eats eight spiders a year is [...]

I’m in love, everyone, with Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. I was waiting for a specific show to come on one day, and had 10 minutes to kill. The only thing on that looked remotely interesting was Foster’s, and since I had seen ads on busses and in malls for it and thought [...]

So, whatever Mark put on here to catch comment spam worked – 88 messages were holed up in storage. I took a look at them, and decided to post a couple of my favorites here. Bear in mind that in their original form they are full of hyperlinks…
Very nice. I hope you’ll update very [...]

1. What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before?
I went to Vermont, I enrolled in grad school.
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I can’t really remember if I made resolutions.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Mel had Cooper in march. Dee [...]