Month: October 2005

I don’t know if I’ve already told this story here, but it’s eerily appropriate given recent events. Back in high school, for our final field trip in a club called MESA (Math, Engineering, Science, Achievement), we went to the Biosphere in Arizona. Maybe it was a Biodome. Heck, now that I think of it, I’m…

I have an ethical dilemma. This afternoon, while eating lunch, I found a bag. I waited for an hour in the hopes that somebody would come by and claim the bag, but nobody came. I would have turned in the bag but for my dislike of middlemen. So instead, I rummaged through the bag to…

Tao of Gabe Gabe the Didactic Beaver here, your eyewitness to the recent SAM and MUSC elections 2005. To recap: last year there were no elections, this year there were. Like all issues, however, this has multiple sides. On the one hand, students were denied their civil liberties and the money they thought was going…

As I’ve finished the first edition of our new carnival (release date: October 31, Australia Time), I figured I’d print my own rejects here. Stay tuned next week for our grand unveiling. Invent a Time Machine and quick! It’s urgent! 2. If you died, would you mind if your girlfriend married? 1. No, I’d want…

A total stranger called my column “very funny.” Wow. I haven’t been this flattered since Gadi Schwartz said he wanted to do a piece on the Pix Capacitor (which, of course, I am the key player. I even write most of the stuff, I just let Pixel Q. Styx put his name on it because…

My wonderful roommate (is reading this) has some funny foibles. When you speak to him day to day, he’s ever so nice to you (assuming you’re not me). He won’t fight or anything, though he will point out when you’re being a fool (it’s like the pot calling the kettle black). Online, however, he’s a…