:neurovore.

2009-11-02T17:49:00.001-06:00

"The West hears the word 'Stalinism,' and has a collective urinary moment..."this is why i love my professor

2009-10-30T13:14:00.001-05:00

so much win. monster goodness.

2009-10-20T22:35:00.000-05:00

god, this cheese is SO GOOD. whole foods ftw. drunken goat goats milk cheese from spain with red wine washed rind. MMMMMM.

2009-08-23T19:59:00.004-05:00

for the sanity of all involved, here's a neat way to convert pdf books to readable files for your iphone:You Will Need:- Stanza (application)What To Do:1. Open the PDF file in Stanza (the "Open with" option when you right click the file, or via Ctrl/Command-O in Stanza itself)2. Copy all the text via Ctrl/Command-A, Ctrl/Command-C3. Open up a new Stanza window via Ctrl/Command-N or going to File

2009-08-16T19:44:00.002-05:00

Because nothing says "gangsta" like the lyric "My tasks include internal systems integration."

2009-05-06T20:05:00.002-05:00

What! no capacity for business, no knowledge of law, no sympathy with art, no pretension to philosophy; only a simple knowledge of the secret that has puzzled all the philosophers, baffled all the lawyers, muddled all the men of business, and ruined most of the artists: the secret of right and wrong. Why, man, you are a genius, a master of masters, a god! At twenty-four, too!--George Bernard Shaw

2008-12-24T00:57:00.002-06:00

china? bizzare, surreal, introspective on a morally and physically painful level, and thankfully over. not that i don't like the place, far from it, i feel it has Character and a severe case of contradiction that i find so appealing, but i need a break from it and all that it entails for me right now. i need i guess some space to figure out myself after a semester of being Way Out There, so far

2008-12-03T23:30:00.002-06:00

i ran into a coworker in the office wearing a huge black felt patch and a safety pin as i was getting water. i only caught her regard for a split second, but the circles under the eyes and the tired expression were enough to confirm what it was. for those who don't know, the black patch affixed to the left sleeve with a safety pin is a sign of mourning, specifically for the death of a close

2008-12-03T08:52:00.000-06:00

<@codstar> rice crispies and hangovers don't go together<@codstar> first time ive ever told a bowl of cereal to stfuHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAH

2008-11-30T21:57:00.001-06:00

am feeding little name cards into a itty bitty card scanner, and it is taking WAY longer than something this mindless has any right to be. there are another couple of hundred to go. i will go SPARE

2008-11-16T22:09:00.002-06:00

as of monday, 12:08h in shanghai, china, the wikimedia foundation has raised $2,685,553 of the $6 million it wants. good grief. little contributions count. just ask obama.in other news. shanghai = madness. i know i haven't posted ANYTHING about this whole debacle. i don't even know what to think.

2008-10-07T10:02:00.001-05:00

it is sufficient, i guess? that in the middleof my self-perusement, seeking words dropped by othersinto the overgrown grave of the internet, a pleasure tinged with guilt at this wilful probing into someone's self,picking words and phrases like blind fish to starlight, drawing on thoughts and mind-babbles and pensiveness, when i am readyto craft words of my own, pin butterflies to pixels, to cast

2008-01-18T00:30:00.001-06:00

i have decided to live one cause at a time, because i cannot find an overriding, overarching belief that will enable me to drive every action and every word, that will burn in me and make me capable of the more-than-the-ordinary, the infinitely-able. and one day i will lift my head from the multitude of projects that i have immersed myself in some sort of escapism to find that i have accomplished

2007-12-16T15:54:00.001-06:00

terry pratchett has early onset alzheimers....bugger.

2007-12-13T03:04:00.000-06:00

CUTto the time when idon't have to do this shit anymore, when ican sit back rela-x and hit the pause button,drink some champagne andsnuggle down to blankets andwarmph. BUTi'm stuck here.goddammit.

2007-11-05T08:10:00.001-06:00

this kid is hilarious. i wish i had his mad dancing skillz.

2007-10-16T15:42:00.000-05:00

google ads have invaded my tagboard. the fuck is this.

2007-10-12T01:00:00.000-05:00

as i get closer and closer to the 1000 post mark, it becomes harder and harder to post. ironic. but yet, as i sit in the library and procrastinate on epiic, i wonder just how cheerfully i can be writing a paper on a topic that has managed to tear down my worldview entirely. the amount of endemic corruption in the world is astonishing and frankly dismaying, and (better still) we keep on screwing

2007-08-15T12:05:00.000-05:00

i know i shouldn't be particularly affected, but there is a vague disquiet. a kind of mild, bitter-tainted resignation that i really shouldn't get hopes up or look forward to things because murphy really rules the goddamn ruse roost, and is particularly pan-like in his put-downs.

2007-08-05T12:48:00.000-05:00

so i am Heading Back in a few days time, newly twenty and vaguely malevolent. if i have learned anything of my stay here, it is that it is Supremely Evident that for the Past Twenty Years of my Existence i have learned Squat.

2007-07-20T14:23:00.000-05:00

just finished potter 7 with a kitten on my lap. it is 3.24am and i am fucking tired.

2007-06-26T23:11:00.000-05:00

tony blair looks happier now that he's handing over the prime ministership to gordon brown.gee i wonder why.

2007-06-25T21:36:00.000-05:00

bohemian drives and nine planets without intelligent life

2007-06-25T21:25:00.000-05:00

ack i just oded on coffee. brainfizzing now.

2007-06-23T10:10:00.001-05:00

just watched borat.ohgodohgodohgod. my brothers and i are severely traumatised FOR LIFE.on a side note, that isn't so bad since my life is probably going to be REALLY SHORT after the MASSIVE screwup i managed at work, so whooeee. go sonia.

2007-06-20T23:04:00.000-05:00

oogh i had to pour one cup of coffee into my system for an hour before i could actually wake up and do the damn analysis that my boss wants me to do. brought mac to work today, and now i'm compulsively listening to jazz because of the marvelloush concert i saw last night with jeremy monteiro, jimmy cobb, jay anderson, bob sheppard and roberta gambarini. more later.

2007-06-18T03:06:00.000-05:00

I WANT THIS OFFICE. someone teach me java so i can work there.also have been devouring cherries at a constant rate. + starbucks coffee and reading ps238 = fun for all involved. apart from the occasional swallow of a cherry pit. if only there was more rice boy.

2007-06-17T23:01:00.000-05:00

it's apparently fruit day here, which is why i suddenly am in possession of a whole punnet of cherries.there are definite perks to working here. too bad it's monthly

2007-06-15T13:19:00.000-05:00

requiem for a dream is possibly one of the most haunting and compelling movies i have ever watched. if you ever want an anti drug film, this is it. if you showed this in singapore, people would STOP and NEVER take drugs. it's the kind of film that people walk slowly out of theaters from, deep in thought. compelling. what's compelling is the point when everyone curls up in a fetal ball at the end,

2007-06-08T13:07:00.000-05:00

so it's been exactly one month since i've posted. suffice it to say, i'm back in singapore and leaving in august so spread the word, people. gonna be working for a month, then i'm not sure :Pon a side note, i'm still obsessed with rice boy

2007-05-09T14:57:00.000-05:00

only in california would you get a situation where an ex-movie star and still-celebrity sentences a wannabe-movie star and -celebrity to jail for 45 days.

2007-05-08T21:15:00.000-05:00

i feel like death.that should really go into a comic, not a statement. preferably with a "woah" in front of it.

2007-05-02T12:42:00.000-05:00

goal in life: own a steinway D. playing on it is absolutely bliss, gorgeous, heaven.

2007-04-24T22:38:00.000-05:00

on the vtech shootings, from the economist:Few urban Americans swallow this twaddle [about the need for a gun], which is why many cities have stiff anti-gun laws. But some rural people do, and plenty more love hunting and think anti-gun Democrats are wusses. To counter this image and court rural votes, the Democratic Party has largely abandoned its gun-control crusade. Its presidential candidates

2007-04-22T13:25:00.000-05:00

mechawars! woot!

2007-04-19T04:04:00.000-05:00

i was still sleepy and trying to do my paper. still am, but that's not the point. the point is i decided to drink that can of red bull that i had sitting around the place since it's got caffiene in it and all.WHOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH.

2007-04-07T19:20:00.000-05:00

squirrel catapault! bahahah..

2007-04-07T13:03:00.000-05:00

ironic that this would come out at a time when i'm asking the same question. i figure i must be wanting the very same thing.

2007-04-06T15:25:00.000-05:00

do you ever feel like words are on the tip of your tongue, you're holding your breath to say it, it's a bubble of air, a consonant on the tip of your tongue that is malformed, ill-advised, amoebic in its potentiality for destruction, but you don't know how to express the vast multitudinous possibilities and jumbles within you?it's one of the most horrible feelings in the world.i see the lights

2007-04-04T15:45:00.001-05:00

did i mention it is 2ºC? it is 2ºC. and SNOWING.godDAMMITboston!

2007-04-04T15:09:00.000-05:00

it's SNOWING. it's also april 4. APRIIL 4. a kid just walked by covered in snow. i know this is boston but this is RIDICULOUS.

2007-03-30T11:36:00.000-05:00

BLOODY APPLE IS FUCKING ANNOYING. "couldn't find the cd because they may have had to break it to get it out" FUCK YOU the drive was working PERFECTLY it was just MISALIGNED fucking THIEVES.

2007-03-17T01:28:00.001-05:00

Take the quiz at dicepool.comhell yes!

2007-03-17T00:38:00.000-05:00

P-P-P-POWERBOOK!!1omg i nearly died laughing.

2007-03-16T12:51:00.000-05:00

The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.and halo 2 is coming out on pc for vista! crap!oh wait. bungie is under...guess what.....microsoft studios! slick move, gates.

2007-03-14T21:55:00.000-05:00

ratatat = rhcp on instrumental.can't hear a damn thing now.lines across the room, puppet-strung on jealousy, heartbleed music and a withering

2007-03-06T00:48:00.000-06:00

so i've designed one poster, and it's gotten a few compliments, and i'm designing another poster, and one of the faculty says hey, you've got a future as a graphic designer.now there's an interesting thought. i don't have the skills, but i work at it till it sticks. i don't think i can really say that of anything else that i've ever done.must ponder.

2007-03-02T12:33:00.000-06:00

nasty, nasty wet weather.pensivity last night - watched peter pan the musical. quirkyquirky.love yearn for the inaccessible.

2007-02-26T12:32:00.000-06:00

nancy wilson was AMAZING. i absolutely loved the performance...and it was opened by no other than the lance bryant quartet! so there was lance bryant on sax and voice, mulgrew miller on piano, yoron israel on drums and john lockwood on bass. it's surreal, i guess, when a jazz piece you're learning in class is composed by that guy who's sitting on the stage playing his heart out. but wow. it

2007-02-23T13:11:00.000-06:00

it is a bright sunny day out there, the kind of day you execute rosenbergs on. snow's fresh and melting. i was sent to requisition stuff. requisition. reh-kwee-see-tzsion. sounds so soviet, only i'm not requisitioning grain, i'm requisitioning a crate of water. it's like inquisition, only with goods instead of words.

2007-02-23T03:09:00.000-06:00

beethoven + dramatic heavy snow outside = awesome. like having your own visualizer.tonight's snow smells of seoul garden and tastes of bitterness

2007-02-21T01:37:00.000-06:00

wow i just figured out how to delete offensive messages off my tagboard. go sonia go.time to play assassins. i've been walking around looking over my shoulder and carrying a pair of socks all day

2007-02-18T21:10:00.000-06:00

i just watched the boston ballet's a midsummer night's dream !! squeee!!!!was awesome. also cold. but i gotta lot of compliments so it was worth it. music of the moment - daniel powter - suspectmood of the moment - sexual, in a dancing way

2007-02-18T05:56:00.000-06:00

her face is a map of the world, is a map of the world..you can see she's a beautiful girl, she's a beautiful girl..everything around her is a silver pool of light;people who surround her feel the benefit of itit makes you calm;she holds you captivated in her palm…suddenly i see (suddenly i see)this is what i wanna besuddenly i see (suddenly i see)why the hell it means so much to me (suddenly i

2007-02-17T15:16:00.000-06:00

oh gods i read this and nearly died laughing :)music of the moment - kt tunstall - suddenly i seemood of the moment - revelatory

2007-02-14T14:53:00.001-06:00

a british journalist in afghanistan

2007-02-14T12:40:00.000-06:00

on a side note: i may just switch back to windows from my mac. it's wonderful and all, but it's just conked out on me again - i have a cd stuck in the drive because the drive mouth does not align with the slot on the case. i don't know how it happened - the damn thing's warped up the middle. and i can't pop it open because that would Void the Warranty. it wouldn't be so bad if it weren't a bloody

2007-02-14T12:22:00.000-06:00

HAPPY NATIONAL GOOD LOOKING PERSON DAY!!1if you don't get it, let me know and i will enlighten you.in any case, it's actually legitimately snowing here. well, snowing's a mild term to use for it. it's fucking hailing. the "snow" is actually icy pellets, i.e. basically frozen rain. so walking outside is pain. it's like the torrential rain during the nescacs. when things falling out of the sky

2007-02-12T11:26:00.000-06:00

music of the moment - death cab for cutie - soul meets bodymood of the moment - satellite, guster or dave matthews

2007-02-11T00:33:00.001-06:00

teh awesome

2007-02-08T15:35:00.000-06:00

there is a formula for the beer goggle effect.""A formula rating of less than one means no effect. Between one and 50 the person you would normally find unattractive appears less "visually offensive".Non-appealing people become suddenly attractive between 51 and 100. At more than 100, someone not considered attractive looks like a super model."" BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

2007-02-05T14:52:00.000-06:00

*snigger*. but it's true. the one thing i do not like about the mac (sacrelige! blasphemy!) is its total opacity. i can't get into the bare-bones of it without the utter frustration of not knowing where to start. maybe it's the 10-15 years of growing up on windows. maybe it's the blasted incomprehensibility of terminal. but ask me to do sudo, and i'll cheerfully bite your head off unless you

2007-02-05T06:48:00.000-06:00

back in boston. for the record, it's -12ºC/10ºF out there and WINDY. arg. nosleep today woo. general update of what i did on sunday - sleep in, go for awesome breakfast at upmarket french cafe thing, wander around the area and get more cheese, take a bus to volunteer park to climb the water tower (another outing courtesy of bob the receptionist, who is amazing and wonderful and really really nice

2007-02-05T06:47:00.001-06:00

i am writing this from the absolute bliss of my bed here in the hotel. after being on my feet for the WHOLE DAY, it's wonderful to just sit and relax and drown in pillows while listening to chillout music and bossanova and eating potatobread and homemade cheese with jamaican spices. awesomeness. we even had cold dunganess crab before this, from the fish market. it was SO GOOD. ahhhhh. ok i'm

2007-02-04T21:18:00.000-06:00

irony is leaving 2ºC seattle for 66ºF phoenix arizona to go to -2 gabillionºC boston. there are people wearing -shorts- out there..man of the year is a marvellously wonderfully suspenseful satire on the political process today. everyone should watch it.

2007-02-03T17:58:00.000-06:00

did i mention i gotta job? i gotta job. at the new granoff centre to be exact. as a box office assistant. i even append that to the end of my emails now, because i keep forgetting to remove it when i don't email in an official capacity. in any case, i just hang around the box office, provide tickets, sell tickets, book tickets, occasionally panic when we have to get something out, and do odd jobs

2007-02-02T03:57:00.000-06:00

allnighter again, woot. but played pool, wandered around campus, hunted howard teh shloopy undulator and bummed around on rooftops so all things considered this was good times. going to seattle in 7 hours, not packed yet. have class and things. life is awesome. tehshit.winter bash was fun, amusing. o'course the fallout was even more amusing in a slightly twisted way. the kind of twisted where you

2007-01-26T09:48:00.000-06:00

it is -14ºC outside!!!!!! and WINDY!!!

2007-01-23T08:33:00.000-06:00

amazingly enough it's still snowing. i'm watching the snowflake ballet outside my window, with guest stars thronging the stage with every gust of wind. cars go by and rile up street-snow, who whirl in offended envy at the whoosh of wheels stirring them from their rest. the sun's out, strangely, the snowflakes enjoy it more. bits of snowflakes are stuck to my window netting and windowpane, looking

2007-01-22T18:53:00.000-06:00

it's snowing, light fluffy wisps of snow that gets into your nostrils and freezes them in a startled sneeze. looking up is like being right in that windows screen saver of rapidly-shooting-past stars. black coats are mottled with white foam, like the fake foam-snow they throw up at tanglin and in tropical countries, only so much finer. it's the difference between filigree work and a chunk of

2007-01-20T13:57:00.000-06:00

candy lotr!anyways. i have a post on freedom of speech, but i'll leave that for later.

2007-01-17T17:34:00.000-06:00

theory 1: there are some points in your life where you just don't feel like entering a relationship, perhaps forever, if only because you have invested so much into a prior relationship that you just feel emotionally drained.theory 2: no matter how much you say it doesn't affect you, sometimes, you lie.theory 3: emotional drained-ness leads to apathy/greyworld.theory 4: cold weather = need for

2007-01-17T13:42:00.000-06:00

SO COLD. it's riduculous. pulled hip flexor :( can't run.on a brighter note, it should start getting darker later :)

2007-01-16T22:13:00.000-06:00

I'M BACK AND IT'S SO COLD!!!!!the flight over was ok...slept the whole way thanks to not sleeping the night before. panicked packing still ensued...so maybe the drinking session 7 hours before the flight was not the best idea. but it was HILARIOUS.anyways, singapore wasa blast. i loved it, despite the wet weather. old place, old and new experiences. still love the food :)ok back to other blog. GO

2007-01-13T22:55:00.000-06:00

SOOOOOOOoooooo....apparently my flight's on tuesday the 16th at 7.30am. JUST SO YOU KNOW.*runs and hides*

2007-01-11T10:13:00.000-06:00

just watched the italian job. two things i liked: handsome rob's accent (YES W00T). and three wonderfully colored mini coopers. every time i saw them i went squee!.and the blowing clothes off women with speakers idea is HILARIOUS.

2007-01-02T11:53:00.000-06:00

so i told my friend that every step i took in university was another step towards the end of my freedom and the selling of my soul to the corporate world and i was suddenly subsequently horrified to realise that this was all true.anyways. tried running today, nearly died because i had to run after bing. more details later, as always. if only because it's late and i've just been setting up my

2006-12-28T11:19:00.000-06:00

so it's wet, raining, and generally bad for running. gah.but on the bright side, meeting up with people is fun.and OOF. i have eaten SO MUCH getting rid of the 5pounds is not going to be happening.

2006-12-27T20:13:00.000-06:00

wargh! so yes, it's been late. in any case, flight over from logan was diverted to o'hare, and then to narita, and i had the luck to be surrounded with wailing kids the WHOLE WAY. wonderfulness. but it was ok, i guess. back in singapore now, it HASN'T STOPPED RAINING which kinda sucks since i actually have to run now. christmas was goood. um. will post more on this subject later mm. including

2006-12-22T00:37:00.000-06:00

so i just spent $4 on random stupid foodstuffs because i ran out of quarters and i needed a dryer. who'da thunk it. bloody hell.and syriana is CONFUSING AS HELL. i was SO lost it was not even funny.

2006-12-21T12:28:00.000-06:00

YES. THIS IS MY ROOM.on a side note, leaving tmr. funfun. oh god, admin stuff is annoying.

2006-12-20T17:52:00.000-06:00

so it's been a pretty amazing post-exam period. since monday i've been chillin' and it's been great. spanish was not so bad (despite amazing one hour of last minute studying in eaton computer lab) which was probably due to dinner at bertucci's on monday for our appreciate allison dinner, followed by hanging out at s.'s and subsequently b.'s house. which was hilarious and absolutely enlightening (

2006-12-18T11:25:00.000-06:00

how apt:'Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.' - Anonymousi [heart] my quoteboard."…and their voices flew from Europe to Asia, and from Asia to Europe, drowning the stubborn roar of time that lagged too far behind, and of space that was too cumbersome…" - valentine kataev, time, forward!

2006-12-17T21:41:00.000-06:00

i am NOT freaking out.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.so yes, that was an anna shih.

2006-12-17T09:41:00.000-06:00

just ran 8 miles. at a 10 minute mile pace. SO SLOW. but hot chocolate keeps me warm mmmmmmm. *snuggles*

2006-12-16T11:24:00.000-06:00

WAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!

2006-12-15T00:25:00.000-06:00

HUNGRRRYYYYY,grah.mmmmm reeses' pieces *smirk*

2006-12-14T20:19:00.000-06:00

"plan b, cat, is to suck it up and stick to plan a."BOOYAH!!

2006-12-13T23:59:00.000-06:00

poikilotherm!!!!!

2006-12-12T02:48:00.000-06:00

ogods do you ever just sit there and absolutely mind your own business and suddenly recall a segment of memory from a previous night that was so spectacularly out-of-the-ordinary yet it somehow totally slipped your mind?yeah.

2006-12-12T01:27:00.000-06:00

OMG NQR COLD RAN 5 ROUNDS HAVE PHILOSOPHY FINAL PAPER TOMORROW DIEDIEDIE OMG NAKED RULED AT BEIRUT WTF PWNT.and i'm really, really full. at least half a pizza, at least. love peppermint bark. and chocolatecoveredcoffeebeans

2006-12-11T13:00:00.001-06:00

so yes, i may not watch scrubs, but i do remember charlie brown and i do like this very much. the jazzy accompaniment helps much.so perhaps some of you have heard the stuff about tufts and the racist carol done by the primary source. their funding'll probably be cut, i think. i guess coming from singapore, i was rather surprised that they weren't taken to task earlier - hell, most people i talked

2006-12-09T20:55:00.000-06:00

priceless.on another note: saw guster last night. was great, i love their music live now :) and had cpk, and cheesecake factory, and after that dance party. only bad bit - it was bitterly cold. very much so. think -15ºC. brrr. toes HURT.semiformal now bye.

2006-12-04T06:35:00.000-06:00

IT'S REALLY SNOWING NOW. 7.35~~! :D:D:D:D:D

2006-12-04T05:36:00.000-06:00

it's 6.36am and it's SNOWING.:D:D:D

2006-12-04T00:05:00.001-06:00

so donut run was a lot of fun, and i would have run it if i hadn't run ten miles this morning. TEN FUCKING MILES. my body is Pain. and i fell, and skinned knee. lots of blood w00t. i heard hisses of intaken breath when i passed people. but YES. i ran 16km. i am SO PROUD THAT I DID IT. not in a pompous way, but in a good way. just really happy i survived.and n. came over because of mit tournament

2006-12-01T20:26:00.000-06:00

OMGWTFAWESOMEBBQmathbesofun

2006-12-01T01:09:00.000-06:00

ny was AWESOMENESS. it was SO GOOD. i got there around 11am from chappaqua and i got to chappaqua because anna's awesome mom gave me a lift :) so i went and got lost in NY.basically i rambled like a worm in a really amazing apple. saw all the shops, like lord and taylors and macy's' shop windows, and walked through those stores, got my boots (aerosoles!) and i WENT TO THE LIBRARY. IT IS THE BEST.

2006-11-25T01:43:00.000-06:00

billy costigan is HOT. omg love.i mean, seriously. tortured vulnerability is a soft spot of mine. even though he's not be irish. mmm. costiganlove.TO NY TO DA Y!

2006-11-23T22:30:00.000-06:00

so it turns out that tag-board.com has changed its url to tag-board.BIZ and didn't inform me somehow, giving me much grief and headaches as i am NOT A STAFF MEMBER FROM INDONESIA SO THERE DAMMIT.anyways. hello. apart from the fact i'm now a member of a gabillion new tagboardythingies, i'm good. cool. calm. and of course the massive thanksgiving dinner i just had is contributing to my inertia.