Two baby red tailed hawks are nesting on a building ledge on MIT’s campus and are expected to take flight any day now. It’s all being captured on a live webcam perched only inches from their nest. This will probably ruin your productivity so you can thank me later. The live feed can be found […]

What the hell is going on in the U.S. Senate? Does anyone ever say, “Hey, wait a minute, what the f*ck are we doing? Wasn’t there something important we were supposed to do today?”
The Senate spent a good portion of yesterday debating whether to call the English language America’s “national language” or its national “common […]

My esteemed Alma Mater is embroiled in quite a controversy right now. First, a website operated by someone who always got picked last in dodgeball, badjocks.com, made pictures available showing the NU women’s soccer team hazing their rookies last August. NU suspended the team indefinitely this week.

Then the university announced that it had recently punished […]

Last weekend, the little sis and I ran a 10-miler in Philly. After the half-marathon, this run was easy… 10 miles downhill the entire time. The only problem was the crowd: 14,000 people running down Broad Street made it difficult to get around the slow people that insist on starting up front. No matter how […]

A couple of weeks ago Christy and I traveled by Fung Wah to NYC to run in the Queens Half-Marathon. For those slow on the uptake, that’s a 13.1 mile jaunt through the 2nd most uninteresting borough in New York. And if you’re not familiar with the Fung Wah, a.k.a the wild chicken trucks, then […]

If you grew up in the early 80s, and are a male, then there are two things you assuredly love: He-Man (from your formative years) and the Big Lebowski (from your college years). Am I right or am I right? Or am I right? Right… right… right.
Anywho… some strange folks at IdiotWork decided to […]

I’ve been referring to Rocky Balboa as “The Italian Stallion” for pretty much my entire life. All along, I thought the reason for that was because somewhere in the Rocky movies he was referred to by that nickname. Lo and behold, I stumble upon this video and learn that Rocky never had that nickname in […]

Update on my previous post on the Afghan Music Project:
As of May 1st, 2006, the Afghan Music Project CD has climbed to No. 12 on the iTunes World Music Chart. All credit is due to Chris Becherer and Adam Gouttierre, 2 Berkeley students who traveled to Kabul in the summer of 2005 to record and […]