Author Archives: mindless

If text messages help remind people to vote, maybe blog posts do as well! So, go vote! Polls close at 7pm in Virginia and 8pm in New Jersey. My predictions KY-Gov: Beshear 58%, Fletcher 42% (a Dem pickup) Virginia State … Continue reading →

Yesterday I came home from Kol Nidre (Yom Kippur) services, and found Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture” entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” It’s similar to Tuesdays with Maurie except with a computer science professor. Martian mentioned this lecture on her … Continue reading →

Shana Tovah to all my Jewish friends! I just got back from Princeton services, where I met the new crop of Jewish grad students. I’m now officially “President” of the Princeton Jewish grad students org (whatever that entails), so I … Continue reading →

After a joint birthday party with Kevin last night, I received some unexpected birthday presents today. First, Gonzales resigned! As others have noted, I guess he was just waiting for the Daily Show to go on vacation. In other news … Continue reading →

Today the DNC punished Florida for moving up their primary past the agreed upon date (from Feb 5th to Jan. 29th) by stripping Florida of all of their delegates. I wholeheartedly agree with this move, especially the 30-day grace period. … Continue reading →

When was the last time I went two weeks between blogs? Sorry about that. My excuses are that I’m actually being productive on my dissertation and Facebook Scrabble. (I was totally addicted to that game last week, but the fun … Continue reading →

In case you missed it, and unless you both subscribe to Fox Soccer Channel and are a women’s soccer fan*, you did, the Washington Freedom (previously of the WUSA) won North America’s premier soccer women’s competition yesterday. They defeated the … Continue reading →

The softball season ended on Tuesday, with a loss to History (a.k.a., the Revolting Masses). The playoffs were double elimination and we lost the first game since we didn’t have our full compliment of players. With the team back at … Continue reading →

Despite being in the middle-of-nowhere Pennsylvania, Ben and I managed to find a B&N that had a midnight celebration, only to find ourselves at the end of an hour-long line! Well, 24 hours later, I had consumed the last installment … Continue reading →

Alright, time for some predictions. I didn’t so so badly last time, let’s see how I do with the final installment. Few of these ideas are my own, I’m just endorsing the one’s I think are correct. Easy Ones Who … Continue reading →