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Our recent trip to Machu Picchu

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:01:07 -0400

Our recent trip to Machu Picchu

Matt Nathanson on Modern Love

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:41:01 -0400

Matt Nathanson on Modern Love

The New Look

Sun, 22 May 2011 23:29:12 -0400

The New Look

About that time I ate a glacier

Mon, 02 May 2011 11:02:36 -0400

About that time I ate a glacier

Chocolatissimo Tres Sabores!

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:30:50 -0400

Chocolatissimo Tres Sabores!

tinysprout: Scott Adams (Dilbert), deleted post

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:25:00 -0400

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 will be. Hey Scott, is that because your regular readers are all a bunch of privileged male douchebags like yourself? Also worth asking: where did the attention from “outside” your “normal circle” originally come from?

kissingunderspiderwebs:

Scott Adams wrote this post today, March 7 2011, on his blog and then deleted it.

The topic my readers most want me to address is something called men’s rights. (See previous post.) This is a surprisingly good topic. It’s dangerous. It’s relevant. It isn’t…

hypomodern: We live on a pretty remarkable ball of rock and...

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:27:02 -0400

hypomodern:

We live on a pretty remarkable ball of rock and water, folks. I hope to see these in person someday.

Seconded.

A great demonstration of a nuclear reaction. Makes me miss...

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:35:14 -0400

A great demonstration of a nuclear reaction. Makes me miss college (yes, I know these are high school kids, I guess I miss that too).

"Sarasvathy likes to compare expert entrepreneurs to Iron Chefs: at their best when presented with an..."

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:10:56 -0400

“Sarasvathy likes to compare expert entrepreneurs to Iron Chefs: at their best when presented with an assortment of motley ingredients and challenged to whip up whatever dish expediency and imagination suggest. Corporate leaders, by contrast, decide they are going to make Swedish meatballs. They then proceed to shop, measure, mix, and cook Swedish meatballs in the most efficient, cost-effective manner possible.”

- 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.

Local Ann Arbor band My Dear Disco has changed their name to...

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:33:18 -0400

Local Ann Arbor band My Dear Disco has changed their name to Ella Riot (read more about it here), and this is their first new song/video under that name. It’s a great song, a crazy video (shades of OKGo), and has some fun shots of downtown A2.

"And yet, his inner voice refused to pipe down. “I remember telling myself that the Ontario Lottery..."

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:43:38 -0500

“

And yet, his inner voice refused to pipe down. “I remember telling myself that the Ontario Lottery is a multibillion-dollar-a- year business,” he says. “They must know what they’re doing, right?”

That night, however, he realized that the voice was right: The tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of studying his tickets and some statistical sleuthing, but he discovered a defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential information about the digits hidden under the latex coating. Nothing needed to be scratched off—the ticket could be cracked if you knew the secret code.

The trick itself is ridiculously simple. (Srivastava would later teach it to his 8-year-old daughter.)

”

- 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.

nontrapreneur: Entrepreneurship as Social Evil

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:43:18 -0500

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 MP."

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:13:57 -0500

““The marriage in medicine between pathophysiology and man is best exemplified by MP.””

- 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 Resident, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; MAC Governing Council, Resident and Fellow Section Representative” and demonstrating to him exactly how the marriage between pathophysiology and man is best exemplified by your sawed-off, well, you’re a braver person than I. And a lot more persistant. And violent, sheesh.

We’re not saying which one… (seen in a hospital in...

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:12:09 -0500

We’re not saying which one…

(seen in a hospital in Lima, Peru)

Last night I had a dream that while at my elementary school, to...

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:36:56 -0500

Last night I had a dream that while at my elementary school, to meet up with some friends I hadn’t seen in years, the tires on my car disintegrated. And there wasn’t enough time for me to get them replaced before my trip up north, so I had to take the motorcycle which was low on gas so I rode it very slowly the whole way. And then I walked through the back hallways of some hotel looking for a phonebook to call…I don’t remember who. I got some weird looks from the cleaning ladies, though.

Then I woke up and saw this outside my window. Read into it however you’d like, but I think the pretty obvious explanation is that I have a latent mutant power to control the weather.

NO BLASTERS!: You Don't Need to See His Identification

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:41:25 -0500

NO BLASTERS!: You Don't Need to See His Identification:

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

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:11:12 -0500

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 purposely pull into a left turn lane because there is too much cross traffic, you are endangering everyone on the road. STOP IT.

hypomodern: I Remember. HT @gruber and @ebert. If I were in...

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:12:07 -0400

hypomodern:

I Remember. HT @gruber and @ebert. If I were in charge of the democratic party, there would have been numerous variations of this ad running frequently in all markets for the past year.

Untitled

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:40:57 -0400

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Get yer hands off my internets

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:36:49 -0400

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 this just sucks. And it’s sad, because this was an area during the election where I really thought Obama would have the right priorities in place and make an actual effort to promote an open and fair internet. But, well…blech.

(p.s. thx @hypomodern for the link).