A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he’s persuasive. — Demetri Martin It’s been a little over a week since my return to the US, and let’s just say the Amazon I am now exploring is not the Amazon I wish I were exploring. But you all don’t pay…
Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta I’m back, baby. After two weeks in Peru, wading through a city of stray but domesticated cats, believing we were stranded in the middle of endless sand dunes, taking rickety planes over ancient ruins, hiking through mountains by moonlight, eating guinea pig,…
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. – Saint Augustine Vanity has always been one of my preferred vices—a fact, deducible, by reading just about any of my blog posts. However, such self-directed idolatry is done tongue-in-cheek. In truth, I recognize I’m a relatively average, not…
Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won’t die. – Mark Twain Nothing says fun like a long road trip. In a small, slow car. With a bunch of guys. Who may or may not have put on deodorant….
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell Sometimes, I get bored in class. All right. Often, I get bored in class. But rather than simply sit there and let my brain leak out my ears,…
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. – John Wooden These last couple of days, Ohio State’s social psychology program has been hounded by news reporters. And not just my graduate program more generally, but my lab more specifically… What was the scandal? Who was spotted…