Christmas Gifts from Advisees

I have the awesomest advisees.  Alison and David dropped by today with two bags of Christmas (or Holiday, if we shall stay p.c.) presents.  One was a box of Godiva truffles.  The other was – cracking me up for the longest time – a Wall-E toy.  To be exact, a “Dance N’ Tap Wall-E with Wacky

Wally World Wall-E

Did Wall-E come from Walmart? When we watch the movie and see the portrayal of Buy n Large, the retail chain super store that covered Earth, it’s pretty easy to make an association with Walmart: gigantic stores, feel-good commercials, cheap goods, and fat people. Is this connection subtle or obvious?  How about the robot hero’s

Theme Park Vacation

We returned to the city of yellow snow and black ice, from the sunshine state, after a week-long theme park adventure in Orlando.  All I could say is, “damn I forgot it’s winter here.” We visited all four Disney World parks and both Universal Studio parks.  Here are the holiday props + park icons: Additional

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I Hate the Salvation Army

That’s right – another Christmas-y thing that I have issues with.  Soon enough I’d be writing my own version of Twelve Days of Christmas.  Speaking of which, if I still drive to work everyday and listen to the radio, I’d hate the Christmas songs by now, too.  Good thing that’s not the case. No offense

Napolean Wrasse

Zoo

I’ve always thought that I never cared for fish.  I didn’t like to eat them, didn’t like to see them, etc, until I saw those giant Arapaimas in Beijing Zoo.  The next thing I knew, I found this picture of a Napolean Wrasse on the Internet.  Then I realized that I just don’t care for fish

Everybody Agrees

New York subway… working 24-7 but never fails to fail you. For those of you unfamiliar with this system, at least a couple of routes are “under service” every weekend, and sometimes also on weekdays.  Flyers like this are everywhere, just like the cockroaches. The bitter comment is not at all unreasonable.  The same crappy