July 2011
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Our recent trip to Machu Picchu →
June 2011
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Matt Nathanson on Modern Love →
May 2011
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The New Look →
About that time I ate a glacier →
April 2011
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Chocolatissimo Tres Sabores! →
March 2011
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tinysprout: Scott Adams (Dilbert), deleted post →
There’s a point in this article where I thought he was going to go in one direction, and then he went in the completely opposite direction. He notes on his blog “My regular readers have the capacity to deal with this sort of topic but it gained a bit too much attention from outside my normal reading circle.”
Well, I’ve never been a regular reader, and now I certainly never...
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“Sarasvathy likes to compare expert entrepreneurs to Iron Chefs: at their best...”
– Via a @Vaguery retweet - a very interesting article about the differences between entrepreneurs and corporate businessmen. Personally, I feel like there’s a middle ground between the two that would give you the best chance to succeed.
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February 2011
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“And yet, his inner voice refused to pipe down. “I remember telling myself that...”
– From “Cracking the Scratch Lottery” over on Wired.
This is just one example of why math is SO FUCKING COOL and why statistics should be a staple of the high school math curriculum.
January 2011
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nontrapreneur: Entrepreneurship as Social Evil →
nontrapreneur:
Little-e entrepreneurship is the charming eccentricity that drives business innovation in our culture and economy.
It’s a willingness to accept risks that others would shy away from, in exchange for eventual rewards nobody else can see.
It’s the Earliest Adopter’s enthusiasm for a fad that…
“The marriage in medicine between pathophysiology and man is best exemplified by...”
– Found by my wife while researching medical residency applications. If you can make it past paragraph two of the sample “Personal Statement” before getting up from your computer, going down to your local gun shop, acquiring several firearms, tracking down “Jeff Gonzalez, MD...
December 2010
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November 2010
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NO BLASTERS!: You Don't Need to See His... →
noblasters:
On November 21, 2010, I was allowed to enter the U.S. through an airport security checkpoint without being x-rayed or touched by a TSA officer. This post explains how.
Edit: This is a rough draft, but I wanted to get it up sooner than later. For now, the quotes below are paraphrases. I have…
Left turn lanes
Bad drivers of America: the left turn lane is NOT your personal fucking merge lane. If you can’t make it completely into the proper driving lanes out of whatever strip mall you’ve stranded yourself in, then you need to WAIT. Or, make a right turn and find somewhere nearby to correctly utilize the left turn lane. Then one more right turn and you’re on your way!
Everytime you...
October 2010
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September 2010
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Get yer hands off my internets →
The Obama administration’s stance toward all things internet-related (including DMCA and digital media) has really been (for me) the biggest disappointment of his presidency. I’m normally willing to allow certain leniencies, e.g. the Iraq war, because I know those issues are super complicated and fucked up and who am I to really know what’s going on?
But this? Well, honestly...
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“The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields,...”
– Hannah Arendt - “On Violence,” Crises of the Republic (1972).
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So what if alcohol is good for you →
This gizmodo article discussing a new health study on alcohol consumption goes off into some totally unfounded conjecturing on why drinking might be good for you. Basically, drinking can help you relax and socialize, thus somehow live longer.
These things (relaxing and socializing) have never really been problems for me, which is one of the main reasons why I rarely ever drink alcohol - I just...
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August 2010
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Dammit, tumblr
I want to like you, I really do. But seriously, this is getting frustrating.
I put things in the queue, and they don’t get posted.
I post things, and they don’t get forwarded to Twitter, or they do - twice.
I put things in the queue, they don’t get posted, so I remove them from the queue and manually repost them, and then they inexplicably show up in the queue again, where I...
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WatchA sprinkler outside my apartment got a little carried away this morning.
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Editing tumblr themes
I just now figured out that you can directly edit the html/css of any tumblr theme. So that only took me like, what, two months? Progress people, progress.
“In one way, I suppose, I have been “in denial” for some time, knowingly burning...”
– Hitchens on battling cancer. (via cajunboy) (via soupsoup)
Brilliant and jarring… For as long as it takes to read this essay, you will have his cancer. And when you are done reading it, you will not have it anymore. (Hopefully he won’t, either.) But what you will be left with in your newly-minted...
July 2010
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“Engineers are notoriously frugal. This is not because of cheapness or mean...”
– Man did this hit the nail on the head for me.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/engineerhumor.html
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Creative Helmets →
I’m really digging these kooky helmet designs. There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of creative innovation going on with helmets, which is a bad thing because maybe if helmets looked cooler or did more, people would be more likely to actually Wear them.
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one forty plus: Bed →
My whole life I’ve hated going to bed. I like falling asleep instead. Falling asleep is so much better than going to bed because you don’t get tangled up in the logistics. Falling asleep happens for you, even if it means waking up at eight to the sun assaulting your eyes while a block of metal…
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“The difference between Android and iOS isn’t that Android comes with undeletable...”
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@gruber — makes me wish tumblr hadn’t repeatedly eaten my essay on Android market fragmentation, otherwise you would have already known this. Note that this obviously cuts both ways: sometimes AT&T gets in the way, too :). (via hypomodern)
On the flip side, for any non-default apps you want...
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Bill Murray Is Ready To See You Now →
I consider Bill Murray to be the greatest comedic actor of my lifetime. The man is amazing. This (rare) interview in GQ is just one small example why.
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This was written on a toilet wall of Maths Faculty
hah:
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WatchThis still looks like it’s going to just be incredibly unintentionally hilarious. Anytime you have Justin Timberlake saying ”A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” you’ve got yourself a win.
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My Dear Disco deserves your money →
I recently bought the Dancethink LP from the band My Dear Disco. If you haven’t heard them yet, I definitely suggest you check out the link where you can preview their songs.
But the reason they deserve your money is because of what they offer on their site: the ability to purchase and download any of their albums, in any of several formats including FLAC(!) and OGG(!!), at whatever price...
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“All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head...”
– http://mashable.com/2010/07/06/prince-the-internet-is-over/
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June 2010
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“Angry Mexico players protested to referee Roberto Rosetti after the screens in...”
– Because, you know, awarding the offside goal was the right thing to do.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/story/_/id/5335440/ce/us/fifa-censor-stadium-replays?cc=5901&ver=us
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Fixing Soccer
Forget about instant replay. It’s obvious we need that. My question is, why can’t the refs just keep an accurate track of time lost due to “injuries” and other stoppage of play, and properly extend the match, instead of this b.s. arbitrary “+3 minutes” crap. Yes, it will extend games, but I think that would have a backlash of fewer players diving and rolling...