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Jul. 10th, 2006 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesI have discovered the Cornell Dairy Bar. If I take the 31 instead of the 30 in, I can get a sizable ice cream for $2 on the way into work.
Nothing good can come of this.
(I also heard the story of the Cornell Gaming Club's desire to get a member working in Admissions. See, they have someone in the Dean's office, and someone in the Bursar's office. Once they get someone in the Admissions Office, they can admit, fund and manage the classes of Abrahamo Lincolni, the mythical undergrad president of the Gaming Club who signs their paperwork.)
ETA -- Quote from Steve Brust's weblog (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skzbrust):
"A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless."
Reminds me how I'm reading Forty SIgns of Rain. Kim Stanley Robinson does a nice job of describing how science works, and what some of us are like, even if the book is preachy (I think it's hard to write a near-future political book without ending up looking like you are gunning for one side (in this case, preventing global warming))
Nothing good can come of this.
(I also heard the story of the Cornell Gaming Club's desire to get a member working in Admissions. See, they have someone in the Dean's office, and someone in the Bursar's office. Once they get someone in the Admissions Office, they can admit, fund and manage the classes of Abrahamo Lincolni, the mythical undergrad president of the Gaming Club who signs their paperwork.)
ETA -- Quote from Steve Brust's weblog (
skzbrust): "A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless."
Reminds me how I'm reading Forty SIgns of Rain. Kim Stanley Robinson does a nice job of describing how science works, and what some of us are like, even if the book is preachy (I think it's hard to write a near-future political book without ending up looking like you are gunning for one side (in this case, preventing global warming))
