soapbox

did anyone else get the (presumably) spam mail message from Physicspark.com?

I’m just in a picture-posting mood today. Here are the first 17 or so victims for the height-weight chart. It’s kind of cool as a composite.

First of all, there’s now a “pictures” category, so use it if you post anything including pictures. I think I’ve already changed all the previous picture posts… or at least some of them.

Second, it’s possible to password protect posts. I’m not sure that it’s really a valuable feature. However, if I wanted to say something bad about Susan (no, there is no Susan, but I didn’t want to use a real name.) then I could post with a password and tell it to everyone except for Susan. I can’t think of any good real uses for the feature, but if we wanted to restrict something to only Dartmouth or only department audiences we could do it.

I got my fMRI results last night and I’m very concerned about my brain. For one thing, the lack of symmetry in the horizontal cut (compare the front right and front left by my temples) and just the general existence of lots of dark areas around the fringes.

One other thing that makes me sure that I’m crazy. My brainstem looks like a naked woman sort of turning away from the viewer. That might really explain something.

I’m buying Chris a beer tonight for getting me a new toothbrush after I dropped mine in the toilet at MDM. Anyone else up for a beer? dunno exactly when we’re going yet.

pa·thet·ic, adj:

1. Arousing or capable of arousing sympathetic sadness and compassion: “The old, rather shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic” (John Galsworthy).
2. Arousing or capable of arousing scornful pity.
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