RIP Black Flip Flops

Black Flip Flops died today after nine years of life. They are mourned by their owner, Nicole, to whom they left their entire estate. The cause of death is unclear, but it is known that they fell apart while crossing Diversey at Clark.

two cool links culled from other blogs

http://www.2loop.com/3drooms.html

http://blog.oup.com/2008/07/favorite_words/

another good word

autochthonous: (of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists

look it up...

...if you're interested:

prosopopoeia

the world is not perfect

some people are nice. some people are mean. most people are in between.

vergangenheitsbewaltigung

So I should probably (definitely) be writing one of my papers right now, but I just remembered that I had this blog and I also just remembered how awesome this term is:

vergangenheitsbewaltigung

it means 'coming to terms with the past'

Craziness!

I totally got this from the Freakonomics blog, but this is worth reposting. There is an image of a dancer rotating, but it is unclear whether she spins clockwise or counter-clockwise. When I looked, I was 100% sure that she was spinning counter-clockwise, indicating that I am left-brained (and all these years I thought I was a right-brainer). Some people, though, can only see her spinning clockwise. I was able to retrain my eye to watch her go clockwise after looking at the shadow of her foot, but it wasn't easy. Go check it out!