Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Hey Craig, remember when Hobbes and I (fairly lamely) KIDNAPPED you? That was fun.

I don't know that many people around here anymore, but for those that care, I'm getting married.

For the record, I wrote that when I was spending a lot of time with a British co-worker who used the term frequently, not in its anatomical sense. In the "idiot" sense. I pick up other people's figures of speech all too easily and the other meaning never occurred to me. Oops! This whole co...

I registered for my final semester of graduate school, which is exciting because I'm overworked and exhausted and terrifying because I have to get a real job in the fairly near future.

I also noticed that Mormon males that have gone to grad school are slightly more religiously involved than those with Bachelor's or lower. That is an odd phenomenon. I wonder why that is? Changed preferences about family life that can make church-going uncomfortable? I know there's a big problem wit...

This is more than a tidbit, but is especially useful if you want to see a number of Nobel Laureates with bra masks on their faces

http://improbable.com/ig/winners/

1- Seasons - Neil Halstead
2- The Dangling Conversation - Simon & Garfunkel
3- Money Talks - ACDC
4- Cuanto Tiempo Paso - Juanes
5- Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

No, there was a regional YSA sacrament meeting at the Lincoln Center. But I did see a lot of people from Queens that you would probably know. Most of the Woodside kids.

Ditto to ahem. I would also strongly recommend refugee resettlement agencies in your area. I interned with the International Rescue Committee this summer and they always need all sorts of help. It doesn't haven't to take much time at all, but it really helps and goes directly to people who have just...

Not that this is entirely relevant to the discussion, but I was at Ground Zero today (public transit transfer) and in the one block I was above ground I saw a man holding a sign with a picture of Bush 41 and the Park51 logo that said "Miss me yet? I never would have allowed this trash" and...

Or maybe he just understands their civil rights. Moving it does absolutely nothing to promote tolerance and understanding. With controversy there is at least a supporting side and visual evidence that we aren't all Muslim-haters. If they move, it proves to those that are looking for it that American...

I'd love to be the Ward Organizer. Just organize stuff. Starting with the Materials Center. I've also had just about every music calling in the book. I've been the choir accompanist since I was 12 with the exception of my freshman year of college and bits and pieces of my mission. It does get old. S...

I am so in love with this. I've been spy-obsessed my whole life, and this makes me geek out.

Also, one of the couples lived 10 minutes from my apartment.

Personally, I think Obama handled it like a pro. A republican would likely have been malicious. (Of course, generally senior military strategists agree far more with republicans, since republicans funnel funds aggressively into the military). Come on, man. Really? It'll be interesting to see how re...

I tend to categorize people by their music and movie/tv preferences. It seems to be a pretty good measure of personality compatibility. I think that not only the way people treat service workers such as waiters, but also the way they order their food and how they eat it says a lot. I work at a resta...

Ha. The Nook e-reader. One of my favorite recent naming fails.

On a related note, I always wondered how the church feels about nude modeling or nude artistry. It's not as though these people that are doing the art or modeling are doing it for sexual purposes, it would seem to be okay, no? Uhh...I was fairly recently at an arts "soiree" in the East Vi...

You might find this interesting. It's written by one of the writers: http://thecarlosramos.tumblr.com/post/6 ... he-writers

I gave a friend a Book of Mormon a few weeks ago for her birthday and she had me/the missionaries over today for the first time. That felt pretty brave.

I don't know who mine was. :oops: :shock: Guessing there's a wee bit of an interesting story there... Then again, if you count elementary school or younger escapades, I would have no way of knowing who was 'first' but I must confess I did have a bit of a drought there between '93 and '07. (Would ha...

There's a book about this! Getting to Yes by Fisher, Ury, and Patton. It's actually about negotiations, but they point out a similar problem: people argue based on their positions, not on their interests. People take a position and will become more and more entrenched in it as the argument moves on ...