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Positive visualizationAny athletics coach can tell you about positive visualization. Before a race, imagine yourself beating your best time and inching out your competition, and it will help you during the race. Positive visualization may work in sports, but it does not work in sexual relations.
Often, I will positively envision myself hooking up with a […]

What’s the big deal with Buffy? I don’t see why it’s popular. Sarah Michelle Gellar is hot, definitely, but she’s not enough to carry the entire show (Britney Spears, on the other hand, could easily carry a TV show). The plot is preachy, not to mention cheesy. And the folklore of vampires and what not […]

Jamison talks about the Spot diner, the cultural center of Binghamton–and me wetting myself (figuratively)–in his most recent weblog post. Jay (as in Jason, not as in Jamison) kept referring to this John as “the weakest link”. It cracked me up so bad.

The song “One Million Miles Away” by J Ralph is really good. You might recognize it from the “Big Day” Volkswagon Jetta commercial.
Many people think it’s annoying to have a song stuck in one’s head. While it probably is irritating for people around me, I like having a song stuck in my head. It relieves […]

Thanks to those who responded to my last post. It makes me feel good to know that not everybody reads ktheory because they’re bored.
On another note, you can get into the holiday spirit by giving me things.

To my audienceI never understood why people read this web page. I write almost purely for myself. Why would anybody else care to read it?The other day, while surfing other weblogs, I had a small epiphany. I was incredibly bored. That�0�9s why I was reading weblogs. You must be bored too!I feel like a just […]

I�0�9m thankful for my family, and for having the opportunity to pursue my dreams.

I love my Zip diskAn Ode to Ktheory
Ktheory, apart from being a web site, is also a Zip disk. Ktheory the Zip disk is my truest friend. (For clarity’s sake, lowercase ‘k’ ktheory refers to this web site, and capital ‘K’ Ktheory is the Zip disk.) For over two and a half years, I have […]

So, today in math class, we were studying the compactness of sets (don’t worry–you don’t have to know compact sets to understand this post). We were taking about some function called Fu(xi), pronounced F-sub-U of X-sub-I. Or, for brevity’s sake, you could just say F-U of X-I. So, this kid raised his hand and asked, […]

My favorite reason for living in a big city is seeing aspects of your real life in popular culture mass media. ER is one of my favorite TV shows, and one of the reasons I like it is because it has so many Chicago references. On a re-run I just watched, apartment tenants were rioting […]

My math midterm kicked my ass, but it kicked the rest of the class’s ass too. Distributed ass kickings are more suffrable than focused ones.

While I continue to kick ass in my SCS class, I fail to kick ass in my Math and CS classes. I have midterms tomorrow in both Math and CS, for which I am currently unprepared. Fortunately, my parents sent me cookies.
Also, I’d like to complain to the people who made certain English grammar rules. […]

The weather in Chicago has been fantastic the past week, but that’s not the only reason I’m in a good mood.
Today, I got my paper back for my Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization (SCS) class. The professor, Bob Richards, is the director of the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies in Science and Medicine […]

This evening, I saw the movie Hedwig and the Angry Itch. It was decent, with a lot of funny and clever lines. Before the movie, the group of us were mocking the Media Aesthetics course we took last year, a class that taught us more about obfuscation than about art and literary criticism. Thus, using […]

I enjoy the following confections:

M&M�0�9s
Hershey’s Special Dark
Snickers
Smarties
Life Savers
3 Musketeers
Milky Way

Snappy DresserSaturday, I went shopping downtown, and I bought the coolest pants: the charcoal hipster pants from the Gap. I’m kind of lucky, because the charcoal hipster pants are on back order, and only the khaki hipsters are listed on Gap.com.

A Russian marathon runner, Lyudmila Petrova, talking about running the NYC Marathon despite security concerns:
“I believe in life. Living in Russia is stressful, too. You cannot just hide in your house. You have to live. Life changes. You have a happiness and you have a sadness. You have to face it. You have to believe […]

�Aphex Twin is so cool. I got his new Drukqs double cd today. I highly recommend it, as well as his older stuff.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: Much worse is the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight - nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety - […]