bklee’s posterous

in my profile picture, i am puckering. it is because i am chewing nihilist gum. from stupid.com:

"Nihilist Chewing Gum does not taste like cherries or grapes. It does not taste like peppermint or wintergreen or spearmint. It does not taste like anything because it's devoid of flavor.  It contains no artificial flavoring and no natural flavoring because it has no flavor. None. Zilch. Nada.  It is somewhat sweet, but that's about it.  The gum comes in a minimalist black box, which contains 14 pieces.

Yes, Nihilist gum really has no reason to exist. But if you're a Nihilist, you don't think anything exists anyway so what difference does it make. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Nihilist Chewing Gum is that it manages to be funny and depressing at the same time."

awesome travel video:

edit: he's got a wikipedia entry!

sounds like the subject line of a spam email? nah, it's just a revelation into increasing workplace productivity in the science world.  PDFs are the universal file containers for disseminating research but scientific journals format them for the paper page, with tall columns of text.  combined with the all-too-common widescreen monitor, this makes for painful reading and ends up with me passing out on my desk or something. the fix is simple. no, it's not to get enough sleep at night or to have an interactive reading strategy. the solution is to rotate your monitor to portrait mode!

and yes, my productivity really did increase 3000%.

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from phdcomics.com

Nano-Ramen - I can only imagine how the research meeting for this project went:

testing one two three. 1) the spiffy ikea besta, as featured here; 2) in addition to home and office furnishings, ikea also sells stuffed weasels. i am sure there is a high demand for these little critters. 3) swedish meatballs, mac n cheese, and roasted root vegetables, with sparkling black currant juice. yummy.