3/29/10 / Rise up
Spooky Spokeo Yesterday I came across a site called Spokeo.com. You can look up personal information on anyone, and if you pay you can even get their credit information and more. I keep harping on this...
View ArticleOutliers
[abp:0316017922] Even though the odds are stacked against me (according to it), I really enjoyed this book. According to this book: I’ll never be a professional hockey player, or play any other sport...
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Shoot-outs and comparisons
Why are we a people so obsessed with comparisons? Above are just a few of the magazine covers I found searching for “comparison magazine covers” in Bing. What is it about them that attracts us? The...
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On Nikon’s taxonomy
[I thought about whether to post this or not, because it's rather trivial and inconsequential. But I haven't written in a while, and that's not good for SEO, so I'll write it just for that reason (if...
View ArticleMy Generation
Finally an interesting show from ABC, called My Generation, that catches up with a group of young adults from Austin, Texas ten years after high school. One thing I can’t tell, however, is whether the...
View ArticleSome standard questions (SQs)
I met some new people last night, most of whom were new to each other as well. We were all college-educated and in our 20s for the most part. Given our demographic homogeneity, there’s a fairly...
View ArticleThe work week
Day of week Thought of day Monday It’s Monday, it’ll be over soon. Tuesday It’s not Monday anymore! Wednesday Half the week will be over today! Thursday It’s Friday tomorrow! Friday It’s Friday! It’ll...
View ArticleGone Girl book review
[abp:030758836X] I dare say[1], it’s not a very well-written book. I would describe it as elementary, and not refined or sophisticated. That made is easy (and fast) to read but not very enjoyable for...
View Article3/13/13 / Long sleep
Useless I have just decided that every universally applicable axiom of life[5] is utterly devoid of any value toward guiding you how to act in your day-to-day life, toward abiding to said axiom....
View Article3/24/13 / Chintzy
For lack of a better word I plucked chintzy from my vocabulary to lasso in a group of web development books I’ve come across recently. These books are fine, but the names make me cringe and want to not...
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