It looks like our problems associated with an increasingly fast food nation affects more than just us. While adult crows seem quite happy and healthy feeding on fast food leftovers, suburban baby crows are becoming smaller than their rural brethren as their parents feed them our fast food leftovers. This suggests that fast food was [...]
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Junk food diet affecting baby crows
Posted in random, science & technology, tagged crows, diet, health on June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In tribute of my bruises
Posted in health, random, tagged accidents, health, random on June 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bruises are common and usually pose few inconveniences unless you are one of the few people who, like me, bruise really easily. The inconvenience stems not so much from the pain or the swelling or any medical condition, but rather from people expressing their shock and occassional disappointment at yet another purple splash on my [...]
The Jolene’s Test for appropriateness of action
Posted in random, tagged random, statistics on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is the quick mental check before doing something, that you are able to truthfully tell your best friend the next day about whatever happened last night. If you’re able to, congratulations, you have passed the Jolene’s Test and it’s about as titillating as finding one of those asterisks on your SPSS output tables. Take [...]
GRE words
Posted in random, tagged random on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Opprobrium – Slander, as in, “How can you say I’m the epitome of all things strange! That’s such an opprobrium!” Bacchanalian – Drunken, as in, “You party three times a week, omg, you’re such an indulgent bacchanalian.” Pedantic – Showing off with regards to being learned, “She couldn’t help but speak to people in a [...]
Qualtrics
Posted in random, tagged random, statistics on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SMU has access to this awesome survey software called Qualtrics. It’s simple to use and is very powerful. My school should totally get it.
I am really an all-or-nothing person
Posted in random, tagged random on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At least with regards to partying, it seems like I am either doing it twice a week, or feeling like I can’t do it at all. The last time I went home at 3-ish am was probably a year ago, before the party craze started. The good thing is that this certainly provides retrospective proof [...]
The highest mountain isn’t Mount Everest
Posted in random, tagged geography on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it largely depends on how you measure your mountain. Mount Everest gets the award for being the tallest mountain above sea level and the highest point on Earth, but the real award goes to Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. Standing at 10,203m from its base, most of Mauna Kea [...]
It is possible to find nothing of interest on Stumble
Posted in random, tagged random on May 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Maybe it’s an off day on Stumble or maybe this writing exercise is just putting too much pressure on me, but I have been stumbling for an hour and have found nothing of interest to read, let alone blog about. The most exciting thing I found was this pic of the cutest ass ever and [...]
