Is there a reason the pop machine in the basement of the library only takes dollar bills *sometimes?*
This weekend I went to the most awkward dinner party I've ever attended. The postdoc in the lab invited my wife and me, the PI, and the undergrad tech and his girlfriend all for dinner at his house. His wife cooked up a storm of Korean food, and all was well.
Except for the odd bits. The postdoc and his wife barely speak any English, so there was lots of nodding and smiling. That was OK. But the PI... the PI is *weird.* She kept asking me if Dwight Eisenhower was a good president. [See, Ike came up b/c she asked about my research, and I said I studied the interstate. But I always say the "Eisenhower interstate system" b/c peole in political science think I mean some international relations jargon when i say interstate (they hear "inter-state").] She also kept asking the postdoc random facts about Japan, like "When did sumo start?" Ok, the dude came from Japan - he was there for like a decade - but he's *Korean.* I'm pretty sure he doesn't know the whole goddamned history of the Japanese empire. t was just fucking weird.
In other news, does anyone have any good headphone recommendations? I just can't make do with those iPod earbuds anymore. I have a pretty nice set right now (some AKG k26ps). But, the problem is that they are portable, and designed to fold up really tiny. Which means that when I put them on my head, they press on my ears in an annoying way (re: it is only the presence of my head that is stopping them from folding up). I'm looking for a full-sized ear phone that has reasonable sound, is pretty tough, very comfortable, and not outrageous in price. That's your mission...
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This weekend I went to the most awkward dinner party I've ever attended. The postdoc in the lab invited my wife and me, the PI, and the undergrad tech and his girlfriend all for dinner at his house. His wife cooked up a storm of Korean food, and all was well.
Except for the odd bits. The postdoc and his wife barely speak any English, so there was lots of nodding and smiling. That was OK. But the PI... the PI is *weird.* She kept asking me if Dwight Eisenhower was a good president. [See, Ike came up b/c she asked about my research, and I said I studied the interstate. But I always say the "Eisenhower interstate system" b/c peole in political science think I mean some international relations jargon when i say interstate (they hear "inter-state").] She also kept asking the postdoc random facts about Japan, like "When did sumo start?" Ok, the dude came from Japan - he was there for like a decade - but he's *Korean.* I'm pretty sure he doesn't know the whole goddamned history of the Japanese empire. t was just fucking weird.
In other news, does anyone have any good headphone recommendations? I just can't make do with those iPod earbuds anymore. I have a pretty nice set right now (some AKG k26ps). But, the problem is that they are portable, and designed to fold up really tiny. Which means that when I put them on my head, they press on my ears in an annoying way (re: it is only the presence of my head that is stopping them from folding up). I'm looking for a full-sized ear phone that has reasonable sound, is pretty tough, very comfortable, and not outrageous in price. That's your mission...
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toothpickmoe:
Good to know. I'll hold it for you. 
roguelibrarian:
because *sometimes* your money is good enough, and *sometimes* it's not 