Oh, bizarre!

I just finished my group work evaluation for our group project for class, which we are presenting tonight. I had to allocate 100 points between the four of us, and dinged myself for being the last one to complete my portion of the paper (I was days behind the scheduled turn-in date), but I did give myself back a few points for having the initiative to interview the library director (something I don't think anyone else in the group would have thought of doing) and also for editing the final paper down from 11 pages to 9 (still a page too long, but at least it's now closer to the limit). I did say that the group deserves an A, but I deserve a B for my delay.

Sometimes, I really hate group projects--I'd much rather have the onus of my grade be on me alone.

Or for him. "My colleague Gollum here thinks your proposal is crap, but he's too polite to say so."

Bwahaha!

We hates your PowerPoint presentation, precious, we hates it!!

ION, an evening with Aasif Mandvi.

Mandvi began the monologue describing his father’s motive for wanting to move from India to England to America. According to Mandvi, his father thought of America not as the home of freedom, democracy or the Statue of Liberty, but as the inventor of the world’s greatest concept.

“Some came to America because of a word, like my father. A word that woke him up in the middle of the night … an American word, a fat word, a word that could only be spoken with decadent pride. And that word was brunch,” Mandvi said, describing his father as a man in love with the very fabric of American culture.

Heh.

ION, I am home sick with a cold. It's been years since I had a cold, and many more years since I called in sick with one, but I think I alarmed my boss yesterday with all my hacking and coughing, and he wasn't really expecting me to come to work today.

I'd go out and get pancakes, but I'm coughing so much I'm not sure going out to a public restaurant is a good idea....

Creepy Talking Robotic Mouth

Video of a robotic voice simulator created by engineers at Kagawa University in Japan.

It creates vocalizations not via a speaker, but by reshaping a flexible mouth and lips. Freaky.

More Dragnet Haikus

“Some came to America because of a word, like my father. A word that woke him up in the middle of the night … an American word, a fat word, a word that could only be spoken with decadent pride. And that word was brunch,” Mandvi said, describing his father as a man in love with the very fabric of American culture.

So Asif's father is a Hobbit then, I guess.

Very apropos given:

We hates your PowerPoint presentation, precious, we hates it!!

We likeses our interns fresh! And wriggggling!

msbelle, can you reorient your desk to swap which side of it you're on? It won't stop people rounding your desk on the corner, but at least you'll be facing them. Having my back to traffic would have me gibbering in about ten minutes, white knuckling it every second of that time.

BevDog - no can do. These are 4 connected cubes and we have no say in how they are placed.