This site runs through a series of really trippy tricks and illusions that will mess with your head, but in a good way. The one with the red dot is crazy!
February 13, 2010
I like those dogs that are so huge and fluffy they could pass for bears.
I think chili is delicious, nutricious, and surprisingly easy to make.
Burritos from the Taqueria the form to which all other burritos aspire.
I’m a fan of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the second floor of the library at Whitman College.
I enjoy waking up earlier than usual, surprisingly refreshed, and enjoying the extra time in the morning.
Erasing completed list items from the whiteboard in the squad room.
Grinning at strangers.
Showers with the water turned up slightly too hot.
Clean sheets.
Feeling the expanse of infinite possibility.
December 4, 2009
Who wears a high school letter jacket to their campus tour/prospie weekend?
Also, I’m very excited to watch the USA in the World Cup.
November 30, 2009
John Lennon once said that “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” It’s horribly cliche now, but I’m sure it was novel, deep, and profound when he said it. I think he was wrong, however. In my experience, life appears to be much more cause-effect oriented than Lennon seemed to think. So far, my life appears to be the sum of a series of plans enacted, more or less effectively, with rather predictable results.
I spent most of high school, for example, planning to go to college. My grades did restrict those options a little but the basic plan was go to college, get a degree. I followed the plan, and now I have a degree. Senior year of undergrad, I started looking for a job. The plan was to find a good “transition to the real world” position. Check. It goes like this: Plan>>>Execution>>>Result. I find this pattern troubling.
The problem with this outlook is that puts a hell of a lot of pressure on the individual to make good plans. In Lennon’s worldview, it doesn’t really matter what you plan to do. You can count on life to just sweep me up and carry you where you’re supposed to go. Sure, that’s a problem if life decides to carry you over a waterfall but it’s also liberating. Don’t worry about what to aim for–just chill out.
The cause-effect model is much more stressful. If your plans actually matter, than they’d better be good because if life ends up sucking you’ve got no one to blame but yourself.
I often complain that I hate buying things like pens because there are just too many options. Rollerball? Gel ink? Fine point? What brand? Making plans for life presents the same dilemma with infinitely higher stakes. Law school? Travel the world? Get a real job? What city? There are too many questions, and not enough answers.
November 26, 2009
Bitch Slap is sure to be a cinematic masterpiece of a quality unseen on the American silver screen since the release of Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus.
“Cram this in your clambake, bitch cake!”
November 5, 2009
I have officially learned how to make a decent lentil soup/stew thing. It’s very exciting because A) lentils are cheap and healthy and B) this brings the total number of dishes I know how to make into double figures with 10. Lentils are also awesome because overcooking them seems to have no impact on the taste of the food. They just get mushier and mushier but taste exactly the same.
Ingredients:
- Bag of lentils (sold near the rice)
- Water–twice as much by volume as the lentils
- A few carrots
- A fatty onion (yellow is tastiest)
- Ham
- Salt
- Tabasco sauce
Directions:
- Combined in a pot made of something that won’t melt, bring the lentils and water to a boil and then turn the heat way down.
- Chop up the onion, carrots, and ham, and add them to the pot.
- Add salt and tobasco sauce to taste. You’ll probably end up adding way more than you expected because lentils just soak that stuff up.
- Wait for a while. Twenty minutes seems to be pretty good.
- Eat ‘em!
