assorted thoughts

1. In the lesser traversed corridors of MIT, there are people with too much to say but without an audience. They have doors littered with scotch tape and yellowed newsprint with old comics and articles. Some want to free Mumia. Some are avid listeners of programs like "Democracy Now." Some believe that Maureen Dowd is a conservative. Regardless, they're all nuts, and they use their door as a bulletin board to show the world that all they need is a little validation and an audience. And the reason I bring it up is that it struck me today that "devdoot.com" is no different.

2. Went to the AIM "Acronym Dictionary" today. Among new acronyms I learned are A/S/L (Age/Sex/Location) and DYOH (Do Your Own Homework) and RUOK?, from whence several Law and Order episodes begin. Notable omissions from the list: WTF, and Cheney's favorite GFY.

3. Healthy eating is out. It's more of a quest to find good eats with no nutritional OR caloric consequences. Unfortunately, I missed out on the Olestra craze. Olestra is not even being offered on eBay, I found after a quick search. Beyond this, Frito Lay ended its run with "Wow" chips (wowchips.com is inoperable). Undoubtedly the headline:
"Hundreds Suffer Diarrhea, Cramps, Incontinence" did them in...
I'd still be willing to try it. All I did find, for my eBay effors, was this.

4. Jon, the future Google employee, got me a gmail account recently. In MIT circles, not having one had led me to feel outside of the incrowd, as one can only get an account through someone who knows someone... And I like the interface. I'm still sticking with my devdoot.com address, but even so, I can sleep well knowing that the chemical engineer in texas also named Devdoot was only able to scoop up the hotmail account, while the real Devdoot has both the yahoo and the gmail and the MIT and the UCLA and the domain name and number one google hit.