You know how it’s all the rage for kids to have their pants half way down their ass so you can see their underwear? Well, today the kid pouring my latte had his pants hanging off his ass except…no underwear. His ass was totally hanging out of his pants. Not that I’m complaining, really. I [...]

I’ve been reading Rewriting the Soul: Multiple personality and the sciences of memory. It was recommended to me by one of my professors. I picked it up more for the “sciences of memory” part than the “multiple personality” part. I confess I am a skeptic of multiple personalities (officially Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID now). [...]

Tired of feeling fat and out of shape, I’ve been making a concerted effort at getting to the gym on a regular basis. I started swimming a few weeks ago—at the gym, a full hour workout w/ QUAC would kill me right now—and today I was able to finish a length of butterfly w/o feeling [...]

J. K. Rowling was invited to give the commencement address for Harvard this year. You really should take some time and read it.
Harvard Magazine