Bun in the oven!

There's going to be one very hot, overrated baby coming into the world!

James Sherley, We Hardly Knew Ye --

"I will either see the Provost resign and my hard-earned tenure granted at MIT, or I will die defiantly right outside his office," -- James Sherley, Feb. 5th

Today:

Dear colleagues:

As MIT observes its Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration today, I want to thank my supporters and other sympathizers of my hunger strike outside of the offices of the President and Provost. I am ending this part of my struggle. Starting today, I will in fact break my fast, in celebration of the attention that has been brought to bear on issues of equity, diversity, and justice at MIT and in higher education. Carefully modified from the original, my demands are still on the table. I urge the administration to act in good faith, to openly acknowledge and respond to the lines of communication and negotiation that have been in place for two weeks and to find its way to meet these demands.

Sincerely yours,

James L. Sherley

Sorry Lena

There's some photo thievery going on here, but I felt like it was incumbent upon me to make sure that this picture of Jake gets a wider distribution. It's not everyday you find a nice shot of your roommate holding Mr. Pineapplehead. Someday there's going to be a bunch of little kids with round eyeglasses running around, and I want to make sure they see this little bit of their father's personal history.

Why I prefer good ol' brick construction

I gotta be honest here, I don't see as much damage to the front of this SUV as I'd like to were I the owner of the building in question.Maybe it's time to rethink locating a cinema in a converted pole barn....

Valentine's Day Nor'Easter

If there was ever a reason to expect a glut of babies in the middle of November, this is it.

This Just in: Men are Pigs!

If this information had been available in 2004, John Edwards would be the president today, and Christopher Reeve would have gone unexploited. I demand that George Bush put more money in stem cell research right this instant! Better boobs through science!

John Edwards gives me the heeby-jeebies.

It's not so much that I don't like lawyers as much as that I don't like this one... There's something unseemly about a guy who gets super rich because bad things happened to other people. Yes you helped the victims get relief from the big bad company, but is that really a good way for YOU to end up with a gazillion dollars? I think tort reform should just mean that lawyers don't get a % cut of lawsuit money.

Greatest Craigslist post ever!

If Wishes Were Horses - m4w

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Then We'd Ride

Kris Wood

Call your office.

Wretched Food Product of the Day

Alligator balls!

Natte Latte

Is this really what you want with your coffee? My favorite is Jennifer (scroll down to the bottom), who brings me my coffee with a little milk but no sugar. "So where does your mom work?

Update: From the Independent:

Even Seattle, though, has its limits. Sexy underwear is all very well, but the city hardly has the climate of French Polynesia.

"We're not in bikinis right now," Ms Araujo conceded in the murky early hours of yesterday. "We're going more for miniskirts and boots. It's pretty cold up here."

James L. Sherley, civil rights pioneer

Like Ghandi before him, Prof. Sherley isn't giving up his seat. He's going down to the Charles to make tenure salt, whether MIT likes it or not. You see, Professor Sherley got denied tenure from Biomedical Engineering, and it's for sure the reason is that the department head is a racist. Oh, also, the Provost and a couple guys who were just walking by at the time. They're racists too.

What do you do when everyone around you's a racist? Quit eatin. That's right, hunger strike against discrimination, and fit into those skinny pants all at the same time. That way, if it doesn't end up working out, you can always be a bike messenger instead.

I am not familiar with Prof. Sherley's research, but I bet he would assure me that it's excellent. But here's the thing.... tenure's like a tattoo. It's not exactly forever anymore, but if you make a bad decision, (see below, Mr Cool ICE) it's painful and costly to undo later. Schools have a right and a duty to think long and hard about a person, their research, their collegiality, and their character before they grant tenure. To claim racial discrimination when there's no evidence of it just makes it that much harder for real victims to get a fair hearing. I think that the Little Rock Nine ought to fly up to Boston together and slap some sense into this asshat.

Hats off to MIT's administration, who look like they're not going to cave to this race baiter, and I suppose a nice catch in hindsight is owed to the BE department for seeing this guy as the toddler he is. I've gotten two separate emails this morning (the fast started today) from administrators asking everyone to be civil and generally reassuring the community that MIT's commitment to diversity remains intact. I would much rather see some strong denunciations of this guy for trying to use race to blackmail his way to tenure, but I guess it doesn't cost the Institute anything to be nice, and then wash down the bitterness with a nice pastrami on rye.

Here's his side of the story......

Hungover

As expected, but it doesn't take much for me to get right back into the swing of things. All I need is a little good news to put a smile on my face.

Wooooooooo!

It's back on tap at the Thirsty Ear, and the outlook is sloppy.

UPDATE: There's a girl here at karaoke who's noticably short on a bra singing Burnin' Down the House.... She has to her credit, gusto. I'm gonna need another beer.

UPDATE #2: The spitting image of what everyone pictures when you say "MIT future serial killer" is on stage singing No Doubt's Just a Girl, and the scary part is, he's rockin the house. This place suprises me every time.

UPDATE #3: Best Performance of the night: Heartbreaker by Pat Benetar. By a girl named Sian... pronounced "shawn".