While applying to graduate school, there’s a lot of stuff to not be thankful for: 1 the cost of official GRE scores, the cost of official transcripts, strenuous studying and worrying about GRE scores, worrying about your vocabulary worrying about…
A conversation I had with my friend Frank. 1: I know what you can do to fix your computer. 2: What? 1: Just get a new motherboard! 2: What? That’s like $800! 1: Yeah, isn’t that a great idea? 2:…
hugged 149 people now… who will the last one be? Nobody knows…
Albright was even giving his toddler-clone an in-depth education. His lessons were progressing nicely: he was nearing Algebra now. “I’m going to skip over dividing by percentages and go right on into factorials. Can you say factorials?” Albright asked. “’Torios!”…
“Listen,” he began in a wooden, rehearsed-sounding tone, “I sympathize with you, I do. My maternal grandmother was 1/16th Arab and she tried to jihad a dozen times before she finally just settled down and married my paternal grandfather. But…
Did you know there’s a commenting challenge going on for NaBloPoMo? There is, I know because a Final Fantasy VII character told me so. Not being one to trust RPG characters (I still haven’t forgiven Aeris for changing her name…
So I don’t break NaBloPoMo… Almost exactly two years ago, I had my laptop break during finals. As you can imagine, it was bad. That post seems eerily appropriate now as my laptop turned off on me and refused to…
Making a ‘top 8’ people I’ve ever met list. Are YOU on it? Because Trumpet Rob is..
RemCon came under new management. Berkowitz’s brief conversation with Albright made him popular for a few years, but it eventually faded. The new management made it explicitly clear that unskilled employees would be fired in favor of employees that could…
Dr. Dr. Master Alberic Albright was a child prodigy. His genius knew no bounds and he became equally adept at HRTM1, genetics and engineering. The last two degrees were why he felt qualified to manipulate his genetics to produce his…
The monitor shimmered momentarily. Then, the image changed to a torch-lit scene of brutal riots. Tijuana residents were throwing Molotov cocktails through store windows. There was looting, severe language, beatings, a gang rape of a local TV anchorman and— at…
This year I’m doing NaNoWriMo, the project in which you write a novel in one month. I’m also doing NaBloPoMo, the project in which you write one post every day for one month. The problem is that NaNoWriMo is on…
Am I the only one that hates South Park? South Park is batting .001
This is a historical document. It details the period immediately before the ending of the universe as well as a few seconds (or eons?) afterwards. It focuses on the misadventures of one pseudo-heroic, genetically manipulated Grecian youth. It is to…
Just received four ‘happy halloween’ text messages…. Yikes
Metafiction is a type of fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction. It is the literary term describing fictional writing that self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in posing questions about the relationship between…
or: Things that I’ve joked about that I now realize were in bad taste and yet I still haven’t learned to curb my tongue.1 Politics Religion Race The lives of your children Bomb jokes at the airport Poison candy jokes…
Evaluation of Merit Pixel Q. Styx, certified blog writer Insight: 9.5 Originality: 10 Hilarity: 7 Reliability: 6.5 Language: 9.5 Spelling: 9.5 Social Science: 9.5 Art: 4 Cooperation: 5 Courtesy: 10 Self Reliance: 9 Conduct: 10 Attention: 9 Workmanship: 8 Effort:…