Stolen from Cooper: Northwestern now has a webcam pointed at the Rock (for non-Wildcats, a large hunk of junk that students paint to advertise various events or blare political screeds). It’s especially stupid at night, since all you see is a vague outline of the Rock. The Lake Michigan Cam is not quite as pointless ...

Some days I think I must be out of my fucking mind to want to be out of college. Like today: I got up at 11:30am, went to one class, came home, did an hour of homework and then passed out for two hours, then watched three hours of television, read a book for class ...

A woman is suing Costco because they fired her for wearing facial piercings to work. The grounds? She belongs to the Church Of Body Modification, thus her piercings are an expression of her religion and thereby due protection under the 1st amendment. I passed this on to a couple of my puncturing-enthusiast friends, to use ...

This week just keeps getting worse. I went to go get fitted for musician earplugs today, which are basically custom-fitted earplugs with a little filter that allows high frequencies to come through, as opposed to regular fitted earplugs, which let almost no high frequencies through, so music sounds really weird and bass-y. With the number ...

So the cable modem got fixed yesterday (and then of course AT&T has been having all kinds of problems with its network, and I keep getting booted offline), but the reason it was busted was very strange. The repair guy showed up early(!), and I told him that basically we had no TV and no ...

So I have this policy to never go back and change or delete any of my posts (except for spelling errors or bad links), so I must beseech you to take the following rant with the rather large grain of salt that I’m in a bad mood and in a fairly large amount of pain. ...

I should never have left the house. I stayed in for most of tonight because my cramps were bothering me and most of my friends were going to Wicker Park, which is about 1-1.5 hours away by el, and I didn’t want to be that far away if the cramps came back. How bad could ...

Cable modem is out. I am cold. Sleater-Kinney rules. Further updates once cable is fixed. That is all.

I stole this one from Kim: In case anybody doesn’t have enough ways to insult me: Oxygen.com has a baby name insult generator. Enter your name, then click on “Drawbacks.” This will also tell you if your name has some sort of lewd or lascivious meaning in another language. Although there’s a couple I just ...

I am studying for a quiz in Italian (no, the thing with Hot Italian Chick did not pan out, and yes, I am still taking Italian, since I decided to take it before there ever was a Hot Italian Chick, goddamn it), and I am typing everything I have to know for said quiz out ...