Friday, April 12, 2013

Hipster Jokes

Why did the hipster burn his mouth?
He took a bite of his pizza before it was cool.

How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
It's a really obscure number.  You've probably never heard of it.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Procrastionation 1, Diligence 0

In my cognition, class every week we have to read and summarize a primary research article.  On the class website there were two articles posted this week.  One of the students asked which one we were expected to report on.  When the professor told us, another student said, "Aw man!  I'm almost done with my report on the other one."  The guy sitting next to him replied, "That's what you get for trying to get ahead.  Lesson one, procrastinate."

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Japanese Smell Research

Someone talking with the TA in Sensation and Perception:  "The last day of class is a week from Tuesday."  "I thought it was two weeks from last Tuesday."  "That's the same thing.  We're just talking about different Tuesdays."

In cognition we are talking about language.  You hear either a D or a T, an L sound or an R sound not something in the middle.  "In Asian languages there is no distinction between l and r.  That's why it's impossible for a Japanese to say something like glomerulus.  Aren't you glad you're not a Japanese smell researcher?"  (Glomeruli are structures on the olfactory bulb in the brain.  They are the first brain region where smell is processed.)