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The Saturnine Detractor is the new publication from U of C alums and seniors, including Andy, Whet and Pete.

The Saturnine Detractor is an online magazine featuring journalism of a narrative variety, reviews, opinion, fiction, and artwork. There are three people named Tom affiliated with this first issue of The Saturnine Detractor. They all have dark […]

MCI Faces Federal Fraud Inquiry on Fees for Long-Distance Calls:

The central element of MCI’s scheme, people involved in the inquiry said, consisted of disguising long-distance calls as local calls to avoid paying special access tariffs to local carriers across the country.

“Everyone understood that we were stiffing Bell Atlantic, but I did not consider whether […]

October report said defeated Hussein would be a greater threat:

“Declassified portions of a still-secret National Intelligence Estimate (NEI) released Friday by the White House show that at the time of the president’s speech the U.S. intelligence community judged that possibility [that Hussein assist al Qaeda] to be unlikely. In fact, the NIE, which began circulating […]

GameSpot reviews Real Life:

Volumes have already been written about real life, the most accessible and most widely accepted massively multiplayer online role-playing game to date. Featuring believable characters, plenty of lasting appeal, and a lot of challenge and variety, real life is absolutely recommendable to those who’ve grown weary of all the cookie-cutter games that […]

Last night I watch Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Holy crap, what an excellent show. I watched it with Katie, whose boss at the Art Institute of Chicago is friends with Ted Allen, the food & wine connoisseur. I liked his character because he was the least flamboyant of the gay guys […]

These are very uncertain times, less certain than previous times when we certainly took more for granted. But we want to assure you that information contained on this site is backed up by the latest snooping technologies on our trillion-dollar communications infrastructure. So, if we told you that the British told us that Iraq tried […]

Meerkats are cool. I want a meerkat. You know what’s also cool? Poker AI. And Crooked Timber, my source.
What! Elyse a “hipster poseur”? You suck!
Other things that suck include this site.
Hello weekend.

Daring Fireball has never disappointed me. Hooray for independent online publishers.
PS, I am awesome.

I was just chatting with Evelyn on AIM Express. From the hilariously frustrating transcript below, you’ll see that AIM Express sometimes drops messages.
Note also that AIM Express doesn’t let you select text, so I made this huge image instead.

The New York Times has an article and slideshow about people doing research in pure math. The picture of the guy writing on the chalkboard: I’m pretty sure he’s diagraming the lattice structure of mappings between fields. Hella tight.
This is the first Web site I made at my new job at Web Services for the […]

I’ve been moving into the new apartment, which is looking hella tight. I still need to get a bed though. Hmm, let’s get on that Aaron. I got a Bluetooth adapter for my ‘puter, so when I get Internet there, I can post all the crazy-go-nuts pictures I take with my camera-phone.
I got a job […]

Lance says, “Whenever I am feeling sad and forlorn, all I need to do is look at a cat in a sheep costume.”

After a marathon day at the Regenstein Tuesday, in which I read about 300 pages, I am incredibly sick. I woke up at 5 a.m. because my throat hurt so badly.
So, two final exams down, two exams and a paper left to go. I’m kind of regretting taking four difficult classes this quarter. In fact, […]

Today I’ve been more productive than any other day this year. Final exams are a bitch. Two people ran in to me at the library and asked if I would study with them. Apparently people are under the impression that I’m on the ball of exam prepardness. This is an illusion.
To people who are done […]

The computer lab is completely full right now, which is kind of expected since it’s the day before finals week. A quick recon reveals that half the users are writing papers. The other half are reading The New York Times online and listening to music.
I have also seen two students with mullets.

Margaret says, “Sometimes I wish I were at a normal school. Other times, I’m like, ‘Word, a soda-can llama.’”

Last night I went to the quarterly Chicago Maroon Boom Crash party! After the party, I couldn’t get in to my apartment since Margaret had my keys! So I crashed on Andy, Ben, and Mike’s spare futon! That shit is comfortable! And about two feet away from the futon is an old-skool Nintendo! So I […]

Among my extended circle of Chicago weblogging friends, there have been a couple incidents recently in which a weblogger posts strong feelings in the heat of the moment, people get offended, and the weblogger sheepishly retracts the post.
I think this sort of retroactive self-censorship is a double-edged sword that should be wielded more lightly. On […]

Right now I’m listening to “Steven’s Last Night in Town” by Ben Folds Five. This song is hella catchy. Props to Berg for reintroducing me to them.
I made this sweet mix CD just for the gym. It’s about half an hour long, because that’s how long I do cardio on the elliptical machines, and then […]