A spasm of productivity

It's a bad sign when I've been working on one cover letter (it's mostly the finishing touches, I guess) for days and then I go into a spasm of productivity in order to edit documents and create a new cover letter and resume for an entirely different position.

Wasted subscriptions

the New Yorker is a great magazine, but it's articles are so long and I'm so lazy about actually sitting down and reading it that I have no idea what to do with all these issues. Tried leaving it in my bathroom at home, but the articles are way too long to be finished in that kind of session, unless I started using masques for that sole reason.

Better skin for better literacy, what a great campaign that'd be.

I can't believe I spent the weekend on forwarding jph@m's offensive emails to the proper deans and administrators.

From an email from my father

"Hi D.D.

Has the campus recruiting season started at Wellesley? Don't miss it. At least see who is in and what they need. I just realize that we may have missed the birthday greeting to you, but we did get a lovely restaurant meal for the occasion.

Good luck and good day.

Dad"

fml?

Interesting pset question

Suppose that, on average, 1 gang-related shooting occurs every 12 hours in Los Angeles.
a. In a 24-hour day, how many shootings are expected?
b. Find the probabilities of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 gang-related shootings occurring in a 24-hour day.
c. Which numbers of shootings have the highest probability of occurring? Why is this answer
reasonable?
d. Using the information found in part b, draw a probability distribution.
e. Suppose that 10 shootings occur in a 24-hour day. Do you think that this could be a random
occurrence? Use the probabilities that you found in part b to explain your reasoning

MDBG is such an unexpected source of amusement

well, I guess it's just the construction of slang itself; language can be so awesome sometimes

灵光

líng​guāng​

divine light (around the Buddha) / a halo / a miraculous column of light / (slang) jolly good!

断背

duàn​bèi​

homosexual; fag (slang, referring to Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain")

打炮

dǎ​pào​

to open fire with artillery / to make one's stage debut / (slang) to ejaculate

电灯泡

diàn​dēng​pào​

light bulb / (slang) unwanted third guest

怪叔叔

guài​shū​shu​

queer uncle, referring to a young to middle-aged male pedophile (Internet slang)

维他命Ｂ

wéi​tā​mìng​ B

Vitamin B / boyfriend (slang)

神女

shén​nǚ​

goddess / 1934 silent film about the life of a Shanghai prostitute (directed by Wu Yonggang 吴永刚) / prostitute (slang)

打飞机	dǎ​fēi​jī ​		to masturbate (slang)

Heave-ho

H-Mart