Shaw's columns

Hard Science

08-14-07

... and the Deadly Hippos

06-22-07

Dopplegängers

04-24-07

Criminal Athletes Tournament of Death
Semifinals completed, Final match announced

04-03-07

Phlebotomy is Life: the rest is just details

02-27-07

Hiding from the crazy

02-16-07

If You Got a Problem, Yo, I'll Solve It

01-31-07

Am I better than Mii?

01-09-07

The Return of Signet Group PLC

12-13-06

GW Basketball, Clowns, and Hope

12-01-06

Things for which I am thankful

11-21-06

Deadly Hippos Quiz: Are you a psychopath?

11-17-06

Immunity from Violence

11-07-06

T-Shirts: A User's Guide

10-25-06

"Straight to the Heart": The Signet Group, plc story

10-18-06

What's Eating Shaw

10-12-06

A Chain of Thought

09-22-06

Sew What?

09-15-06

Mississippi Churning

09-12-06

Gentrification and Food: An evening in Columbia Heights

09-06-06

Mississippi Learning

08-30-06

An Open Thank-you to the Manufacturers of Non-Narcotic Analgesics

08-25-06

Bat for Boy 2006: A Wiffle Ball Story

08-15-06

Tony Lee, the Rock Star

08-10-06

Unnecessary Hostility in Bars

08-07-06

6 Surefire (?) ways to tell someone is an asshole

08-03-06

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, but Mostly Feet

08-02-06

Shaw's 27th Birthday: A No-Game Diary, Parts I-II

07-20-06

Have a drink with Shaw, for his birthday

07-11-06

The National Anthem, Superman Returns, and Elephant Shoes

07-05-06

Deadly Hippos Moving Guidelines

06-30-06

New and slightly more dangerous fads

06-27-06

Food, Fun, Atmosphere, it's all here! Come to Chotchkie's (sic)!

06-22-06

My Favorite T-shirts, and why I don't own any of them

06-13-06

The Graduate Student Body

06-08-06

Self-Loathing in a Small Town

06-02-06

Bienvenue à Montréal!

05-19-06

Mitigating factors in my classification as a man

05-05-06

Deadly Hippos Personality Quiz: Are you a complete asshole?

04-25-06

Ainglish for Americans

04-21-06

Shaw on Tournaments

04-12-06

Deadly Hippos Animal Steel Cage Tournament ends with a Shocker

04-10-06

The Deadly Hippos Animal Steel Cage Tournament,
Part VIII

04-07-06

Being John Malkovich Shaw

02-13-06

Shaw's beard: Fear and Folly

02-13-06

A partial reunion in Nashville, and dancing with strippers

02-09-06

24: watch this show or Jack Bauer will kill you

02-02-06

Skating with Celebrities, or How 5 minutes of television inspired me to optimistically predict the apocalypse

1-24-06

Celebrity relationships, specifically Brad and Angelina

1-12-06

On Holidays, ex post facto

1-02-06

Shaw's Tops for 2005, Part 1 of 45

12-19-05

Growing up sports-free in a sportsman's world (Part I)

12-14-05

Having a famous father: all it's cracked up to be?

12-06-05

Self-loathing at Thanksgiving

11-28-05

Classification of coffee drinkers

11-17-05

Chicken Soup for the Antisocial Soul

11-11-05

The Deadly Hippos Staff review Vampire Bats

11-02-05

Shaw's Warring Personalities (A Happy Column!)

10-28-05

Shaw's First Ever Game Diary: Hofstra v. Richmond

10-26-05

Always a ---------, never a ---------

10-19-05

DeadlyHippos Quiz: Are You Self-Loathing?

9-28-05

Does your homophobia get in the way of your appreciation for Brad Pitt?

9-15-05

On Theft

8-12-05

Mother Nature, Father Time, and their son Self-Loathing Disappointment; PART 2 of 2: Disappointment, Departure, and Spelunking (and spiders)

7-29-05

Mother Nature, Father Time, and their son Self-Loathing Disappointment; PART 1 of 2: Western New York and its Charms

7-22-05
Why I Should Love Baseball, Weddings, and Country Music (But Don't) 6-27-05
Shaw's First Ever Reader Response 6-16-05
The Longest Yard: the Worst Movie Ever 6-3-05
Making a Smooth Transition from Young Man to Old Man 5-19-05
The Will of God, the Will of Rollberg 5-11-05
The Unfortunate Case of the Dawson's Creek Rumor 5-01-05
Life as a Graduate Student I 3-08-05
Math in Pop Culture I 2-16-05

Shaw is a mathematics grad student at the University of Maryland. He lives in College Park, where muggings occur in the light of day, cars are stolen from school employees arriving to the parking lots at 8:30am, and students are sometimes shot in the ass, just for fun.

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