According to science:
“Tenure-track openings routinely attract scores or even hundreds of applications, several speakers noted. Amidst mountains of resumes, hiring committees of competing research universities vie for the same small group of elite candidates. These few stars each garner multiple interviews and job offers while many of their fellow applicants count themselves lucky to receive a form rejection letter. Sometimes, in fact, departments that fail to land their top choice leave tenure-track positions unfilled rather than hire from a slightly lower echelon.” here
So what do you if you’re just one of those scores?
Die organische Chemie kann einen jetzt ganz toll machen. Sie kommt mir wie ein Urwald der Tropenländer vor, voll der merkwürdigsten Dinge, ein ungeheures Dickicht, ohne Ausgang und Ende, in das man sich nicht hinein wagen mag.
Here’s an interesting tidbit that i stole from wikipedia.
“Over eight million people live within Tokyo’s 23 wards. During the daytime, the population swells by over 2.5 million as workers and students commute from adjacent areas. This effect is even more pronounced in the three central wards of Chiyoda, ChÅ«Å, and Minato, whose collective population is less than 300,000 at night, but over two million during the day. The entire prefecture has 12,790,000 residents in October 2007 (8,657,000 in 23 wards), with an increase of over 3 million in the day.”
ouch! that’s why i avoid public transportation and ride my bicycle.
Man, I’ve been a lazy git. I’ve been here in tokyo for six months and i STILL havent updated my site! >_< Never fear, it is on my list of things to do... right after frisbee, halo 3, WoW, eating ramen, exploring japan and southeast asia, oh and occasionally working. it'll happen sometime soon. maybe ;-) in the mean, go look at my pictures
? Question Mark ?
When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio – meaning “question” – at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, which caused another problem – readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercased q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our current question mark.
! Exclamation Point !
Like the question mark, the exclamation point was invented by stacking letters. The mark comes from the Latin word io, meaning “exclamation of joy.” Written vertically, with the i above the o, it forms the exclamation point we use today.
= Equal Sign =
Invented by English mathematician Robert Recorde in 1557, with this rationale: “I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, or Gmowe [i.e., twin] lines of one length, thus : , bicause noe 2 thynges, can be more equalle.” His equal signs were about five times as long as the current ones, and it took more than a century for his sign to be accepted over its rival: a strange curly symbol invented by Descartes.
& ampersand &
This symbol is stylized et, Latin for “and.” Although it was invented by the Roman scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro in the first century B.C., it didn?t get its strange name until centuries later. In the early 1800s, schoolchildren learned this symbol as the 27th letter of the alphabet: X, Y, Z, &. But the symbol had no name. So, they ended their ABCs with “and, per se, and” meaning “&, which means ?and.?” This phrase was slurred into one garbled word that eventually caught on with everyone: ampersand.
# octothorp #
The odd name for this ancient sign for numbering derives from thorpe, the Old Norse word for a village or farm that is often seen in British placenames. The symbol was originally used in mapmaking, representing a village surrounded by eight fields, so it was named the octothorp.
$ Dollar Sign $
When the U.S. government begin issuing its own money in 1794, it used the common world currency – the peso – also called the Spanish dollar. The first American silver dollars were identical to Spanish pesos in weight and value, so they took the same written abbreviations: Ps. That evolved into a P with an s written right on top of it, and when people began to omit the circular part of the p, the sign simply became an S with a vertical line through it.
and now you know.
-jeremy
stolen from “Uncle John’s SUPREMELY SATISFYING Bathroom Reader”
I wandered into the local convee store on campus here at the university of tokyo looking for a nice cold sugar/water/coffee flavor drink and right next to the starbucks’ iced coffee desecrations, I found this gem.
I do like my caffeine in all manners and shapes, but this one was a new one for me. A quick google search revealed a plethora of coffee jelly recipes!
recipe goldmine
pinoy cook
lovetoknow
Am I the only in the dark about this mysterious gelatinous mixture? Is this a secret japanese delicacy? or was i stuck in switzerland a little too long?
As i partake of this caffeinated jelly, i am reminded that it’s important to drink at the size of your taste ^_^
Sorry to disapoint all you unlucky ladies out there, but i am pleased to annouce that my little bro, is now officially off the market. He proposed to his little sweetheart yesterday evening on the top of the space needle. For some odd reason she said yes! way to go nathan and katie!
You scored as Hermione Granger, You are Hermione. You are academic, intelligent, and reasonable. On top of this, you are highly concerned with justice, scorn the small-minded prejudices of others and work hard to defend the under dog. Many times you may find that your heart and mind are constantly at war with each other.
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Harry Potter Character Combatibility Test
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