January 2010
72 posts
December 2009
70 posts
“The last thing America needs is misguided legislation that will raise taxes and...”
– Another laugh-don’t-cry moment, brought to you from you favorite local __(insert derogatory term here)__, Sara Palin.
My 7th/8th grade English teacher just friended me...
I just friended my tenth grade English teacher on facebook. He responded with “So you’re Canadian and still calling me HAYES!”
He happens to hate being called by only his last name. Therefore I always do it. Besides that small lapse into traditional authority structures, he also happens to be a hardcore hippie who believes in the powers of mass meditations as well as the author...
Strangest of 2009
Following suit with the lists, here are my top ten strangest things from 2009:
Being single
Meeting a man in Germany who both knew my grandmother and my father when he was my age
Having nothing but thin air and scary Soviet, erm Russian, guards between me and Lenin’s embalmed body
Being best friends with a 30 year old
Slicing my hand open with a shattered drinking glass
Commuting by...
MIT-Speak, out of context
Ok guys. New game. Take something (old e-mails are good) related to MIT that makes about zero sense when taken out of context and post it.
Take 1:
Subject: Re: :-( OMG im going to scream….now she’s telling me the total capital cost is not 7.4 billion, its 340 MILLION! that’s it! it’s going to change everything!! can you guys come to 1-050 to sort this out?
Source:...
I'm Home!!!!!!
After: Cancelled sunday, 2 days like Royal Tenenbaum in a hotel, flight to Dusseldorf, Newark, shuttle Newark to LaGuardia, failed standby, on a flight at 8, arrive at 10 in Dulles.
I’m home! It’s wonderful. There are cookies. And Italian pastries. And maybe even homemade peanutbutter cups if I wanted them.
This morning: breakfast at Anita’s. Mouth-watering cholesterol that...
“Going to MIT is like having sex without a condom - it feels really great to get...”
– (via xtenacious) (via thekeri)
tried not to reblog. then had to.
“The new housing area is not only built for housing. People are also going to...”
– Evaluation of Bo01 project in Malmø, Sweden.
Tautology or genius? Sometimes I wonder about these planners…
“Budweiser is like sex in a canoe; you’re fucking close to water.”
– In honor of the Danish disdain for cheap American beer
WatchGogol Bordello, free concert, “Hopenhagen”
“The lyric sense of pain is compounded into a literally manic-obsessive...”
– Well, it must feel better now that you got the weight of that construction off your high-horse literary historian six-line-sentence chest.
From: The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature: “The Silver Age”, p. 146, on Maiakovsky.
Obscure Literary (and structuralist) Humor
Harvard Dean: Nabokov is an ornament of Russian Literature! How can you object to his appointment (to the Russian Literature professorship at Harvard)?
Jacobsen (Nabokov's intellectual arch-enemy): So to the department of zoology, we appoint an elephant?
“I curse the day I decided to start these mullions!”
– Alyssa (studio)
“We’re all on the same page. We don’t know which page, but it’s...”
– Ariel
“We found the avenue of trees went up to the hill
That crazy avenue of trees,...”
– Why does this, in particular, make me ready to come home?
Will and Won't
Things I will miss:
A city of Christmas
No open container laws
Men that dress questionably but are straight
Open-faced sandwiches
Never having to put on pants
Incredible public transit
Watching Copenhageners cycle drunk
Things I won’t:
My sink smelling like beer
Sunset at 3:38pm
The rarity of peanut butter
No drainage in the shower
Burning a whole through my wallet ($6 minimum...
NH Democracy
Subject: [NH4] NH Exec Date: December 9, 2009 6:51:56 AM GMT+01:00 To: nh4@mit.edu Who the f*** signed me up for NH social chair without telling me?????? Somehow I won without even being there for the vote.
Ummm…I won conservation chair with 7 votes, so it doesn’t take a lot to win. Seriously.
Cheers!