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Sweet Jesus on a piece of toast! I had NO IDEA the damage that college did me until I read this scintillating piece in the Boston Globe. Turns out, thanks to my politically correct professors, I’m more ignorant and less principled than when I graduated from high school!
A quick list of the phrases the author [...]

Well, it’s been quite a journey, folks! Sure, I struggled a bit early on, and put up my share of ridiculous cop-out posts (like this, and this, and this). But overall I’m quite pleased with the results of my slightly psychotic daily post commitment.
In high school I’d write my activities on my wall calendar [...]

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I want to see one for Bush II.

The Shirt, by Jane Kenyon
The shirt touches his neck
and smooths over his back.
It slides down his sides.
It even goes down below his belt—
down into his pants.
Lucky shirt.

A couple of (long) articles today give good overviews of things that interest me.
From Time, “Why We Worry About the Things We Shouldn’t…And Ignore the Things We Should” [link] [pdf]
(Short Answer: We’re monkeys.)
From the NY Times Magazine, “What It Takes to Make a Student,” all about the achievement gap [link] [pdf]
(Short Answer: A lot [...]

I know I just did pictures yesterday, but I think they may be the only way to do justice to the fabulousity of our day in Austin. We toured and shopped and picnicked, and swung on swings, and drank Austin beer, and ate barbeque, and took silly photos, and planned our adjacent castle-dwellings for when [...]

A few illustrative pictures from our trip thus far…
On the road to the ranch: a restaurant glamorizing the genocidal past, and one of those God billboards. I LOVE those God billboards.

Somehow guns get involved whenever Uncle Mike comes.

Foo-ball! With background cows.

That ain’t no tofurkey.

Well, I guess gluttony is universal.

But I’m pretty sure they don’t build [...]

Like all dutiful couples, Bryan and I have ping-ponged between families for the holidays since we moved to California. We left my family this morning to the joys of cow-feeding and the Texas/A&M football game (woe to my alma mater), and now I’m blogging while the Klingner men talk about tetrahedral meshes. T minus 1 [...]

Cop out? Maybe. It’s Thanksgiving.

We leave on our Texas Odyssey in twenty minutes, so of course I had all sorts of Texas-y dreams last night. The only one I can remember, though, is of the family dog Murphy. He has this weird growth (fatty tumor) on one side of his little sausage body that made him look distinctly lopsided:

Enough [...]