Does it make me a nerd that every time I hear something about the rapper T.I., I think to myself, “Why would a rapper name himself after a calculator?”

Wow. Just wow. Good thing it’s new. It would be trashy to get a used one.

taz and tweak seem rather unaffected by all the pomp and circumstance:

There I was, calmly biking to work this morning… making good time at that, and then…

WHAM!

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Bike Snob NYC says:

The unintentionally sexual implications of a tramp stamp that says “Resilience” notwithstanding, the presence of tattoo studios in America’s malls means that the tattoo has now officially become an impulse purchase, and that you’ll soon be able to get a knuckle tattoo and a personalized hammock plaque under the same roof. I must admit that, as popular as tattoos have become, I did not see this coming. Of all the reasons I imagined people would become embarrassed about their tattoos, I never imagined one of them would be that other people might think they got it at the mall.

this has been a crazy week.

For starters, my parents stopped in DC on their way back from Canada on Sunday. Then, on Monday morning I flew to Amherst for my dissertaion defense on Tuesday afternoon. The meeting went really well and was definitely more of a love fest than a grilling. All they wanted was a polished version with a few extra sentences in the intro.
Once back from Amherst, I worked for a few days, including going to see the Christians In Action because they have one of the best cafeterias around (their starbucks is nicer than most).

On Friday morning, I took off for Seoul, South Korea on a 15 hour flight and I am currently sitting in my room at the Dragon Hill Lodge at Yongsan Garrison Army Barracks in the middle of downtown. I will hopefully have some photos to post soon. Oh, and I did most of the necessary revisions to the thesis on the plane (and still had 10 hours to kill), so that is done.

let me repeat that, because it bears repeating…

done done done done done done done done done done done done done done done done done done!

Totally Fucking Done.

You managed to be the 295th loser!

That’s not bad considering that there were 2344 total losers. By my calculations, that puts you in the top 12% of elite loserdom! And in your age group you were 32nd loser out of 126 potential losers!

Well done, sir.

1) A freshly made up bed and Taz cannot simultaneously exist in the same space and time.

B and I are moving to Las Cruces, New Mexico.  Yes, that is correct we are moving from a rain forest to a desert.  Anyone wanna drive a moving truck from Eugene, OR to Las Cruces, New Mexico?  Our currently plan is to move around the 9th of August but this could change.  I am so excited.  R and B’s adventure part dos is in full effect!