I just realized that, as of Friday, this blog has been going strong (well, more or less) for seven years. It’s survived my post-college transition, a few natural disasters here and there, and a rapture. If my blog were a marriage, the celebratory material would be “wool.” More of a big deal than paper, less [...]
Contrary to what the drunk guy at the bar, or the friend of a friend has said: no university, anywhere, wants your testicle. Especially not for 75,000 smackaroos! For those who still cling on to the hope of trading in one of the boys for enough cash to buy a house: why do you think [...]
I’ve been listening to a lot of public radio lately, and was inspired to think of some ridiculous hypothetical situations – a la Radio Lab’s “would you throw a fat man at a train to save five other people” (that man would have to be ridiculously fat to stop a train, and therefore way too [...]
Last night Elijah and I were talking about a question that has been floating around the back of my mind: what do blind people dream of? Not people who have lost their vision due to accidents or macular degeneration, but people who developed having no sense of sight whatsoever. This came up due to a [...]
