Frank Field raised an interesting piece of MIT trivia today that i was not aware of — MIT does not confer honorary degrees. An interesting quotation from the MIT News Office:

When Charles M. Vest, then provost of the University of Michigan, was offered the job of president of MIT in 1990, he met with Wiesner, who also had come to MIT from the University of Michigan. Wiesner, in ten words of concise persuasion, cited three worries of university presidents that Vest would not have at MIT — “No big time athletics. No medical school. No honorary degrees.”

I think I might blog more if I didn’t feel so bad about smaller posts: see format of Daring Fireball.

I guess I’m a little late on the uptake, as I just saw this article. It’s especially concerning for Australians, given that they have no constitutional or bill of rights guarantee of freedom of speech, unlike many other commonwealth countries and the United States.

I discovered the following while cleaning up my room — I think it’s notes that were supposed to turn into a blog post at some point after Dan, Paulo and I saw House of Wax. Better late than never, I suppose:

worst… movie… ever…

Walked out of House of Wax.

• B-movie tendencies
• Reference to Paris Hilton “home video”
• What not to do in a scary movie
• Showed everything
• Horrible character development (“supporting characters” 1 through 6)
• Sick fuckers!

And those were my House of Wax thoughts back in the summer of 2005…