The Wormlips Scrapbook

Sent by Eleni: In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from the University of Toronto. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee, [...]

Linhong Zhou just e-mailed me a photo she took on our bowling night. I love it so much I want you to see it, even though it’s old news. Frying one’s computer is not only expensive but taxing on time and spirit. Critical files have gone missing: passwords, financial records, four years’ worth of e-mails… [...]

—“Yesterday I spilled half a glass of lemonade into my computer,” I told Sehoon, the SIT tech person, this morning. “Why isn’t it working any more?” He gave me the look that technical people with five monitors on their desk give the proletariat. —“What did you do when that happened?” —“I turned it upside-down and [...]