3 years of life without curtain and with very infrequent use of blinds.

Life’s looking pretty good.

When I’m a bit more than tipsy, I probably look a lot more sober than when I am actually sober.

And I try *hard*.

Jealous? Anyone?

Firefox spell-checker is making me want to correct other people’s mistakes in my replies.

“Fox fox!” I cried. “I saw two foxes in our city! They looked soo soft! ”

The next day, I said “Fox fo…” and realized the foxes were at the same place in the exactly same positions I saw them last in.

Sorry my friends. No foxes for city kids…

Hospitals should use more colorful threads for suturing people.

I would have loved to see pink, yellow, green, blue and purple threads for the five stitches I had on my hand.

A pile of black-eyed beans makes me panic.

Is there such a thing as a goat baby industry?

Wonder if goat milk is more ‘vegetarian’ than cow milk…

Birds do not, cannot, and will not say ‘r’.

They do, can, and will continue to say piyo piyo.

I close my eyes. I’m now inside Alvin:

I see tripodfish. Tens of thousands of them, all anchored firmly to the sand beneath them, facing against the current, waiting for the prey to flow into their mouths.

All strapped with tiny, super-high-tech video cameras on their backs, becoming the eyes for the deep sea biologists who reside miles above, feeding the curious beings with what, to them, is just ordinary, mundane sceneries.

And all this happens as they quietly wait for the plankton to swim through their bodies.

I love tripodfish.

Being a living proof is a strange feeling.

I didn’t know that the cores of plum pits are poisonous until fifteen years after I started eating them for good health.

The power of ignorance.

Salute to our dear Bettamax.

I hope you’re swimming and flaring the gills all you want in the fish heaven.

Proverb: Lod likes the nuts but he does not ***** them.

Errors in my code can make cryptograms even more fun.

When I wash dishes, it seems almost courteous to leave a few things in the sink for others to wash.

And these two things tend to include a ladle or spatula in my case.

The importance of bars at bars.

I really appreciate them when I’m a bit more than tipsy.

I’m very impressed by whoever created the nter and xit signs at that — yes THAT — parking lot.

Very impressed.

What do I think of a typical speaker’s response, “good question”?

Good question.

I feel that when a speaker says “good question”, the response often falls into one of the two categories. The presenter doesn’t know the answer to the question or the question happens to be something s/he knows super well and likes to talk about — if true, the question itself is rarely actually considered to be a ‘good’ question when it’s said to be a good question.

I like to think about this response.

I wonder where the elevator’s “I’m here” sound comes from.

I’m surprised that I never thought about it in the past.

Dear Mr Media Lab

Now that we have RFID tagged books, I think you should make bookshelves that can read RFID. In large libraries, it’s hard to find books once they get misplaced. With these bookshelves, you can maybe program their back or bottom panels, so that the whereabouts of books can show up on a computer.

Also, librarians then don’t need to worry too much about placing the books at the exact places…well, maybe not.

And when you make them, please send us some. We desperately need them.

I feel like I’m a perfect prey for Oscar Wild — when I read lines that ridicle not-so-clever people, I have to mumble these lines to myself multiple times before understanding the real meanings.