Wait, wait. Who was it who brought up the beverage here in the first place? I suspect their motives! They are a Starbucks plant amongst us! B.org has been infiltrated! Run for your consumer and financial lives!

Hee. That's funny, Robin. Our dog and my brother-in-law's family's dog have roughly the same size body and build, but theirs (a border collie) has a smaller head than ours (an Aussie shepherd mix). They think that his head is too big, and I think that theirs' head is too small. Maybe your dog-head size expectations are awry.

I would say this is an urban legend, but I thought the whole "UMASS built a library without accounting for the weight of the books" thing was a myth.

I heard this about the University of Waterloo.

It won't help him as much in TAR, I think.

It didn't really bother me, because I'm sorry, what were they upset about? That he messed with their little "we'll all buy tickets in order" plan? That he was one of the only teams to think to look for a better option when they got to the bus station? That he didn't then shout it to the hilltops so they can continue with this all-together-now thing some of the teams have going? Whatev.

Plus, as a race strategy it could have come back to bite him in the ass - say the shopping thing had been a roadblock instead of a detour, or the book thing had been replace with something a lot less attractive. It's a gamble using your funds that way, so it seems less unfair to me to do things like that.

TAR: I'm thinking that the express bus they all ended up on most likely cost more than the other one, so that's were a lot of the $400+ ended up.

I will say that our dog has a big ole head, so maybe that's got something to do with it.

I heard this about the University of Waterloo.

How 'bout the, "this dorm was designed by a guy who used to design prisons" and "this dorm was designed after the '60s to make it harder for students to occupy/protest."

"There are no sorority houses because of an old brothel law."

My roommate, who works in a library, commented that Rob actually knows how to stack books the right way, and also push them on the carrier also correctly -- I think he even had Amber walking in front of him, to clear the sidewalk. Does anybody know what he's done for a living, we were speculating that he's worked for Casey & Hayes or Gentle Giant, two of the better moving companies here in Boston.

He reminds me very much of the guys from Good Will Hunting.

My roommate, who works in a library, commented that Rob actually knows how to stack books the right way, and also push them on the carrier also correctly -- I think he even had Amber walking in front of him, to clear the sidewalk. Does anybody know what he's done for a living, we were speculating that he's worked for Casey & Hayes or Gentle Giant, two of the better moving companies here in Boston.

He reminds me very much of the guys from Good Will Hunting.

"this dorm was designed after the '60s to make it harder for students to occupy/protest."

I'd heard this about many buildings on the U of M campus, and the only one I ever thought it might be true about was that one Admin building over on Maynard and Thompson... The one with the really narrow rectangular windows.