The Snail Shell

Yeah! I just had the best Concepts recitation ever! Aliens made an appearance, as did Aladdin, Jasmine, and the Genie (who only deals with ...

Plus, I had Google (the class) today. It is nuts. It's held in the Google Pittsburgh office. It's called "Internet Search Te...

I'm so done with the fence. Boo-yah. It was kinda fun while it lasted. What am I going to do? I'm going to go hang out by the fe...

Nope. Fence dancing = fancing? I've been big on combining words recently. I've also been at the fence. It's been nice. We (S...

If I had to make a prayer right now, it would sound something like that. Aargh. In practicing the hobbies that I like (for example, cookin...

What ! They do everyone's job better than everyone. The Google Revolution is coming, and it's going to be great.

A couple people have asked me over the last few days what I've been doing all summer, and it's taken me way too many words and I...

Among a few friends last night, I got into a somewhat heated discussion as to the best way to order tracks on an album. We agreed that trac...

but this is still a pretty good band name list.

That's been my last month... one part halcyon, one part straight out rocking and everything I hoped it could be, one part pounding and d...

I knew it first as a song title on Belle and Sebastian's The Life Pursuit , then as a London tube stop, and now it's a game . I gue...

NO SPOILER ALERT. Look, I'm not going to put spoilers on my blog, a week after the book came out. You can read this, don't worry. ...

What better way to commemorate my 300th post than with the launch of my new series of cartoons? Official Government Things I'll be posti...

Harry Potter 7 came out, and we were dementors- Greg, Josh, Missy, and I. We draped sheets over our heads, walked through the line outside ...

If you were some kind of humanities student who doesn't need computing power at all, what would you get? For example, how about this ? M...

So, being a full-fledged adult, I think it'd be pretty classy to learn to mix drinks. In my ideal world, I'd go to bartending schoo...

I just finished King's Quest VI. At this point, those of you who have never heard of it are saying "What's that?" Those o...

It's 7/7/07, and it's 8:17. Or, you might say... 7:77. Hooray! Go buy a lottery ticket or wish upon a star or step on a crack and...

Any of you guys in academia? I have a question. See, right now, I'm on my third day here at CMU working with some computational lingui...

and it's cool, and I'm excited, and the Pirates will bribe you a whole lot to go to their games . Check out tomorrow: not only do I...