Kristan, remember how I promised that when I went to UT as an undergrad that I would take a picture of a hot guy every month and then we could make a calendar? Yeah….

I found one! Actually this is a picture from earlier this semester that I forgot about when my friend Alex took me to a few art galleries. It’s from Eunice’s camera, but I snapped the photo. Honestly I don’t remember what this guy looked like, but come on, his stance screams sexy. Plus, he’s all cultured right?

I think I’m going to snap a few more pictures of hot guys for you, just for kicks. I’m sure Andy won’t mind ^_-

I like the electronic beat and the lyrics of Just impolite by Plushgun, which you can download legit here.

cause I like you, maybe I’m just like you
holding on to something that we know we can not hold or fold
it seems it seems we just can’t forget
are you frightened, by perfection
is this who you are, not who you want to be

Stephen has been traveling all over Asia for almost two years teaching English. It’s always fun when he’s back to visit, but I wish I could visit him in Thailand! I wanted to share some of his beautiful photos of Thailand, Laos, the Philippines and China. The first is a photo of a local boy, and I just love it. You can interpret it however you want, but it reflects how I feel.

Two more pictures after the jump

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“Brain Gain” is a long but extremely fascinating article by Margaret Talbot for the New Yorker, discussing the effects and ethics of using prescription drugs to boost mental performance. I highly recommend that anyone and everyone take the time to read this, because it’s interesting, and an imminent issue that could (will?) affect all of us.

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What do you think (after reading the article, the highlights below, or neither)?

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Highlights:

In the near future, he predicts, some neurologists will refashion themselves as “quality-of-life consultants,” whose role will be “to provide information while abrogating final responsibility for these decisions to patients.” The demand is certainly there: from an aging population that won’t put up with memory loss; from overwrought parents bent on giving their children every possible edge; from anxious employees in an efficiency-obsessed, BlackBerry-equipped office culture, where work never really ends.

“We’re not talking about superhuman intelligence. No one’s saying we’re coming out with a pill that’s going to make you smarter than Einstein! . . . What we’re really talking about is enabling people.” He sketched a bell curve on the back of a napkin. “Almost every drug in development is something that will take someone who’s working at, like, forty per cent or fifty per cent, and take them up to eighty,” he said.

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What else is there by Royksopp is such a cool sexy song that if I had theme song, it’d totally be this. We can have theme songs right? (Note, disabled embedding means this is not their official music video).

Then I heard this piano cover and loved it even more. I also like Triumphant and So Easy