Pour One Out

Escape From IV: Extreme Edition

Britain isn’t exactly known for its culinary delights, and Scotland even less so. There is not a whole lot you can say about the complexity of a culinary culture if the most famous signature dish called haggis, which involves stuffing a sheep stomach with everything else left over from the butchering process. Arguably worse is the prevalence of something called Black Pudding. When you think of pudding, you are most likely to imagine some sort of amazingly delicious chocolate dessert. In sharp contrast, Black pudding is made up primarily of blood, which is cooked until it congeals, and other sausage fillers like oatmeal and barley.

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Movie-watching for slightly obsessive people

By Britta Gustafson

Many years ago, I spent hours after school reading The Easter Egg Archive, a compilation of hidden details (“easter eggs”) in movies and software, placed by the creators as in-jokes for their friends and other people who pay close attention. OK, there wasn’t a whole lot else on the Web back then, or maybe I just didn’t know how to find anything else. But now, there are lots and lots of websites about obsessive movie and TV details, and many of them are more exciting than finding out that you can play pinball in an ancient version of Word.
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Mixed Feelings

It’s hard to know how to feel this week. The news is filled with photos and stories of people all over the world celebrating the results of this historic election. Whether you are happy or disappointed in the choice we made for our next president, it is undeniable that his victory represents a new age in equality for this county, and the world celebrates this with us.

By contrast, we also passed Prop 8, which denies right to some of California’s citizens. Since my reach as director of Career Services is limited to the world of work and not politics, I use this week’s column to highlight some of the job search resources we offer that are especially relevant to the LGBT community.

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Heavenly Sleep

I freaked out at age six when I learned about heaven.

“Heaven is a place where the streets are made of gold,” my Sunday School teacher told me. “You sing praises to God all the time because it’s always day and you never have to sleep.”

Streets of gold were fine. I loved singing, God, and daytime. But NEVER having to sleep? What the HELL was that?

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The Irony of Guy Fawkes

Escape From IV: Extreme Edition

Remember remember the fifth of November

Gunpowder, treason and plot.

I see no reason why gunpowder, treason

Should ever be forgot…

It’s Guy Fawkes Day here in jolly ol’ Britain. It’s a day built around bottle rockets, bonfires, giant explosions and celebrates a day in 1605 when a group of gentlemen conspired to blow the houses of parliament sky high. Mr. Fawkes was caught sneaking around underneath parliament with a few dozen barrels of gunpowder and was subsequently tried and convicted of treason along with his co-conspirators.

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