Saturday afternoon, and I'm LJing

- Paul Graham is still so cool. He keeps on writing these brilliant essays, and I keep on linking to them. Here's an except from the latest one, which is what he almost said at a highschool commencement address.

Your life doesn't have to be shaped by admissions officers. It could be shaped by your own curiosity. It is for all ambitious adults. And you don't have to wait to start. In fact, you don't have to wait to be an adult. There's no switch inside you that magically flips when you turn a certain age or graduate from some institution. You start being an adult when you decide to take responsibility for your life. You can do that at any age...

- Furthermore, Graham links to The Muddle Machine a lovely article about the gradeschool textbook industry written by a fellow who used to work in it... pretty unsettling stuff, although I suppose not that surprising. delamancha, I expect you'd find this one interesting.

- One last thing: In order to be the coolest stud at MIT, hated by all the playa hataz, Ali Rahimi from the AI lab seems to have rigged a beautiful oldsk00l handset to his cell phone.

- Okay, time for food and work.