GRE Vocab: The FreeRice method

One week from today, I will tackle that leviathan of standardized, computer-adaptive, I-am-completely-unprepared-for-this-and-I-haven’t-done-long-division-by-hand-since-middle-school tests, the GRE.  Thanks to my extreme procrastinatory superpowers, I have held off on doing any significant preparation for the test until two weeks before the fact.  Is this a surprising turn of events?  In an obscure word that lends itself to [...]

A (Foolhardy?) Proclamation

by colros
I’m a flabby mess.
It’s time I do something about this.  I’m going to lose 10 pounds, goshdarnit, and I’m to do it the old-fashioned way; by blogging about it!  Well, not solely by blogging about it.  Frankly, I don’t type fast enough to get much of a workout.  No, I will in fact [...]

Jam Cellar Playlist: July 1, 2008

I know this was almost two weeks ago, but the process of actually getting these things output to an HTML table is at least moderately arduous and so I didn’t get the chance to post it until today.
If you can’t tell by the track listings, I’m a huge Ellington fan. Nearly half the songs [...]

Do Pardon the Dust

It turns out that getting a blog back into shape after a two-year hiatus requires a little bit of patchwork. I’m busily fixing broken links, updating my blogroll, updating old pages, etc. so I sincerely apologize for anything and everything that is annoyingly broken over the next week or two.
In the meantime, consider the [...]

Curse You, Crocs!

Why? Why, cute girl walking down the street by my office, must you be wearing such a cute top with Crocs?
After the Great Escalator Shoe-Munching Scandal of 2007, I thought we were rid of you.  Like rogue guerilla rebels, I thought the offending shoes would be purged from the cities, be relegated to hillside [...]