This is getting close to what I want out of collaborative work tools.
No truer words about grad seminars have ever been spoken.
(Source: gradstudentgorilla)
I understand that people my age buy boats now.
"it will be imposed, as everything else has been, by an instructed political class upon a people partly apathetic and partly hypnotized."
While I fully appreciate the attraction of unique souvenirs, I do not understand why anyone would want to give (or receive) a genuine kangaroo scrotum key chain.
December 1: I can’t remember ever having been so happy to shave before today
"The perfect happiness of men on the earth (if it ever comes) will not be a flat and solid thing, like the satisfaction of animals. It will be an exact and perilous balance; like that of a desperate romance. Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt in himself to enjoy them."
— G.K. Chesterton
It’s the start of my favourite time of year; when thoughts turn to home, and my internal soundtrack is almost entirely made up of songs from the Muppet’s Christmas Carol.
The fact that it’s 32 Celsius with 60% humidity on the first Sunday of Advent is, however, a new one on me.