I say we send this nice man to talk to the nice politicians in Kansas.

Seen on a Tedlab whiteboard:

"First they came for the verbs,
and I said nothing, because verbing weirds language.

Then they came for the nouns
and I speech nothing, because I no verbs."

"Hurricanes Blow" tshirts: now there's a creative fundraising idea.

The planned expansions to food options is also good to hear about - hopefully the guys in charge will make the Bldg 4 cafe more wheelchair-friendly than they made the Steam cafe. Regardless, good stuff coming down the line!

To Whom It May Concern:

If a person in a wheelchair appears to be struggling with a door, it is quite likely that they are:
a.) somewhat precariously balanced on the edge of their seat
b.) leaning all their weight on the door

Keep this in mind when you come up behind them and "helpfully" pull the door out of their hands without asking or warning.

Interesting:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS
by Portia Nelson
I
I walk, down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost...I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
II
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place.
But, it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
III
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in...it's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
IV
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
V
I walk down another street.

Heard in the dorm hallways: "I used to hate myself when I got an 80 [percent]. Now, I get a 70, and I'm like, 'YES!'."

Yay for the MBTA providing a trip planner that does the subway/bus version of maps.google.com; boo for providing no way to link to it or otherwise save it. Seriously, how hard would it be to just keep the input parameters?

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. ~Author Unknown

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. ~Cervantes, Don Quixote

There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. ~Author Unknown (Hey, since I wake up to a flashing light and a vibrating pillow, does that redeem me somewhat?)

Yeah, I'm becoming obsessive.

So first we have a nominee who has both supported the bastardization of eminent domain and attempted (successfully and not so successfully) to undermine and neuter one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in the past 20 years (As Sr. put it, Let the shameful wall of exclusion come tumbling down).

Then we have a nominee with little or no paper trail. Abouot the only thing we know for sure is that she'd like to reverse Roe v. Wade (and probably Griswold v. Connecticut).

How is it that Bush has gotten away with nominating people who should be nearly unconfirmable?