A Blundering Gelato N00b

Escape From IV: Extreme Edition

“Straciatella and melone?!” Unwittingly I had mixed Stracciatella (which is basically fancy chocolate chip) and melon gelatos. Or at least I tried to. After two waitresses, five bystanders and a good friend had laughed at me, I was informed that it was a cardinal sin to mix fruit and crème based gelatos. Embarrassed, I managed to pull myself together in time to order melon and lemon gelatos. For days afterward, every time I ordered gelato, my friend Michele (not pronounced like Michelle) felt the need to explain to everyone what I had done. I would have no idea until I heard the words melone and stracciatella in Italian, at which point everyone would turn to laugh at me and my gelato ignorance. This courtesy extended to anyone, waiters, family members, people on the street, everyone felt the need to laugh, point and inform me not to do that again.

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How to Work a Career Fair

The Fairs are coming! We have a great line up of employers, and I want you to make a good impression on them. Here are some tips that will help:

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Don’t Talk About My Friend That Way

When my daughter was four years old, she was a strawberry for Halloween. After trick or treating around the neighborhood, she picked out a bite size bag of M&Ms (about 12 M&Ms) to eat. She was enjoying the chocolate when she stopped and said, “I shouldn’t eat this whole bag, right?”

“Why’s that, Angela?”

“Because I’ll get fat, right?”

At the time my daughter weighed about 25 pounds. Where does a four year old learn phrases like “I shouldn’t eat this” and “I’ll get fat”?

She learned it because she heard it, more than once.

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A few reworkings of bits of metal and plastic

By Britta Gustafson

Here are a few ways that people have misused computer hardware for the purposes of entertainment. I like projects where people play around with boring components, make something new out of them, and show off the results. The following examples consist of pairs of repurposed hard drives, artsy keyboards, and edible circuit boards. (more…)

Where the rainbow gets complicated

By Britta Gustafson

On Monday I talked about different kinds of insect art: creepy-crawly and odd but good. Today I have a bunch of links about a few aspects of color vision that I think are cool: How many colors can people see and distinguish between? What happens if you have eyes that see colors differently from normal? What alternate ways are there to think about color? (more…)

The Three Commandments

Escape From IV: Extreme Edition

Yeah the Ten Commandments are great. After all, who can argue with the irrefutable logic of Thou shalt not murder? If you weren’t satisfied with that kind of rock solid logic (it’s a joke, get it?) here are a few more that a friend and I discovered while in Prague this summer

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Hiding From a Poor Economy in Graduate School

“I want to go to grad school, I just don’t know what in. I’ll go grad school, then look for work when the economy is stronger. ”

As the economy stumbles and shifts, students increasingly consider extending their stay in higher education with a quick add-on of another year or two of graduate school. Is this a good idea? (more…)

Health and Wellness Connection

Are you healthy?

I mean, not just broccoli-eating, RecCen-using healthy . . . I’m talking about being in balance healthy.

Imagine people saying, “You’re so healthy” when you:

• discuss the Daily Nexus’ Opinions page
• donate $3.00 to Relay for Life
• go to the art museum

You are making choices to improve your physical, mental and social health. Being healthy is more than just being “healthy.” Health is optimized when you thrive. And the new word for thriving is wellness.

THE WELLNESS PROGRAM

I asked the Wellness Guy, Mark Shishim, M.A., for two things he wanted Gauchos to know about the wellness program.

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