Freeing My Inner Genius

I love Christmas, though this year I think I’d love it more if I wasn’t sick.  But I’m getting better and hopefully will get my sense of smell (and taste) back in time for dinner at Todd’s parents’ tomorrow.  Christmas was such an effort this year…between finishing what was the roughest semester of my graduate [...]

One of the things that lures me, and countless others, to Apple products is the way that they look.  This is second, of course, to the pure technological genius that drives Microsoft to run commercials that extol the virtues of Vista (think: the Pepsi taste-test commercials where they disguise Vista as “Mojave” and get people [...]

So the people down the street are either completely oblivious or have a killer sense of humor.  Every Christmas, they decorate the outside of their house with lights and stuff…not any more obnoxious than the typical Christmas light concoctions you see on any given street.  But the crowning achievement of their decorating frenzy is their [...]

The Urban Dictionary defines “Hell Week” as “The inagural week of all Greek organizations (fraternities) in which the new members (pledges) are rigorously abused and tortured as an endurance test. If the pledges make it through Hell Week, then they can become full-fledged fraternity members.”  Note the use of the words “rigorously abused” and “tortured”, [...]