Comments on: The Daily Day: MLK Edition

By: yami

yami — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:15:00 +0000

Not so much repressed kitten-skewering impulses as heightened kitten-skewering impulses - they all skewer kittens as often as they can, at least until they’re tenured. As do all of us hard-sciency types! But we swear oaths of secrecy and very few economists are allowed in on it.
Summers is evidently a soft-science mole. Goddamn lax background checks.

By: Rana

Rana — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:03:00 +0000

I think it’s part of normal nostril function. Even when you don’t have a cold, one is always more “open” than the other, and they alternate throughout the day. /weird yoga facts
The sore throat is key, for me, in knowing that I _am_ getting sick, instead of just sneezing because it’s dusty or feeling tired because I didn’t sleep enough.
On the math — perhaps that explains why the vast majority of mathematicians I’ve known were, well, odd. They have repressed kitten-skewering impulses?

By: yami

yami — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:04:00 +0000

That does happen to me sometimes too, but only for really really bad colds. With normal colds it’s always one or the other.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:45:00 +0000

I’d like to know that about the colds, too. Although I think I’m quite capable of having both sinuses swollen shut and full of snot at the same time.