For about three hours I studied -- well, studied in between conversation -- with Robin for my Russian Imperial History class. The Napoleonic Wars confuse me because there were so many of them and countries …
Today I got to read some more of Kenny Byerly's work. I've known Kenny since our freshman year in college, when we both lived in Freeborn Hall. I told Kenny about Segfault, the geek humor …
I'm never certain how to feel about the Berkeley College Republicans. Aside from the fact that its webpage is out-of-date and Javascript-laden, the organization puts out The Patriot, a magazine that generally contributes little to …
Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler looked very much alike. And both of them hated it. I found this out last semester in my 1939 Films class.
Directors who want believable crowd scenes often (I've been informed) give the extras rather random/nonsense words to repeat. Is this, to coin a tongue twister, an oral lorem ipsum?
So Leonard was singing "Big Rock Candy Mountain" the other day, so of course I sought the lyrics: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/bigrock.htm It does seem a little bit absurd to me that, on the one hand, this page …
At least three of my partners in diarizing have somewhat recently encountered insect problems in their homes: Steve ("Everyone dies, even the queen"), Seth (ants and peppermint oil), and Leonard ("political intrigue").
The BEARCade, UC Berkeley's gaming facility, is selling off some of its arcade games for a few hundred bucks each. Galaga, SMASH TV, Rampage, Soul Caliber, and Tetris. That last one costs only two hundred …
So a bunch of flies decided to make my apartment their home for the winter. This was very, highly, intensely gross to me. I've only partly recovered from extreme childhood phobia of insects. But half …
I've actually caught up a tiny bit on my Russian Imperial History reading, which is quite fortunate, since I have a midterm tomorrow. Two passages particularly caught my eye. The first, I excerpt from "Memoir …
