June 2011
1 post
April 2011
5 posts
Everyday I'm obiplopspling
“Hey Maria, do you think that instead of ding-dong for deaf people’s doorbells, that they just have a strobe light go off?”
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Fonts
Dear god… I think I downloaded something like 30 fonts just now.
They all look so amazing!! Possibility is a good reason to horde fonts, right??
March 2011
5 posts
“I’ve got a long day tomorrow, full of aaaaahhhhh” — Maria”
UMBC + pokemon + a dinosaur = A+
Okay, let me share something with you, Mr friends.
I was sitting in class when a girl and a boy walked in. They sat down like everything was okay, but it was not okay. The girl immediately pulled out a DS and started playing Pokemon. How do I know it was Pokemon, you ask? Well, she announced every single action she made in the game. That’s fine, James! She was doing it at a whisper to her...
Today
For whatever reason,
I really don’t feel like checking my email, paying attention to my phone, or really having any gadgets announce when you, my friends, try to talk to me today. I’m not mad at any of you. Actually, I’m in a good mood.
I just wish it was acceptable to ignore the ever-present, beeping whirlwind that is modern communication and its accompanying alerts.
-...
December 2010
6 posts
November 2010
10 posts
Everyone gets torn asunder sometimes. Keep pushing. It gets better.
That's some good cooking right there!
Lebe and Maria were joke fighting about stuffing… aaand this happened.
“Its still stuffing! It was inside of a turkey!” - Maria
“So, if I put tomato sauce, mayonaise, manwich, and a banana, up inside of a turkey, is that stuffing?!” - Lebe
“YES!” - Maria
Big Food vs. Big Insurance -- By: Michael Pollan →
This article puts forth a pretty interesting (and hugely encouraging) opinion about the future of American Obesity.
The insurance companies may well very soon be in the camp trying to actively fight Obesity. That is a seriously powerful friend to have.
My Own Consternation Courtesy of Curriculum: Media...
“Nielsen figures show that an American child today is born into a home in which telvision is on an average of more than 7 hours a day. For the first time in human history, most of the stories about people, life, and values are told not by parents, schools, churches, or others in the community who have something to tell, but by a group of distant conglomerates that have something to...
Why UMBC is the best place for...
"At Math 151: Male, Black hair. My love for you is like a concave up function because it is always increasing."
"Gooseberry says Hate to break it to you but a concave up function can have a negative first derivative and therefore be decreasing. Look at f(x) = sin(x) f'(x) = cos(x) f''(x) = -sin(x) At 7π/6 it is concave up f''(7π/6) = -sin(7π/6) = -(-1/2) = 1/2 however f'(7π/6) = cos(7π/6) = -sqrt(3)/2 which is negative which implies that the function is decreasing, even though it is concave up."
October 2010
6 posts
WatchI never get used to how amazing maria is at singing!
“I hope you like Guiness, Sir! I find it a refreshing substitute…. for...”
WatchThis is what I did today in my multimedia literacy class.
To be fair, I really enjoy the guy teaching it, but you can only liven up things oh so much…
Cancelled class!!
Wooooo!!! No class today @ 4:30. I love that class, but I love my afternoon WAYYYY more!
September 2010
20 posts
“Ashley wasn’t just naked. She was naked. She was so naked that the...”
– http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2009/11/roommates-part-3.html
Women are NOT bears →
Culture is a caricature.
The more cultural criticisms I read, the more I feel disheartened that modern culture appears to be a caricature.
On a mass scale, we have stopped valuing artistic expression outside the realm of commercial implications. It would not have been accepted 100+ years ago for an artist to do nothing except sell things. If Degas’ Little Dancer was wearing a tutu branded to sears (they did not...
“Sometimes it’s the fight that makes a thing worth having.”
– Richard Paul Evans (via nohasslestrassle)
Clearly, pie is the superior choice →
“This broadcast of the symphony brought to you by toothpaste!” — My MCS 333 teacher
Peer Review means never...(UPDATE!)
So… I just finished going over this paper. The cursory glance I had given it when I first read it didn’t even CLOSE to cover how bad this paper was to read.
Like, I’m really not trying to be mean with my comments, but I’m not the kind of person who will be like,”Oh, good!! Look at how you can misspell 20% of the words in your paper, ramble, obviously not read what...
Peer review means never having to say sorry
If you don’t reread your papers before you submit them and I have to decipher your incoherent prattling to peer review it, then I hate you.
I’m currently reading someones paper for a class, and after 3 sentences it became clear they didn’t proof read. After 2 paragraphs, I’m kind of surprised that they are literate at all.
My professor made a horrible mistake requiring...
