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Twitter 2 LJ
So, I wrote a little perlscript to import my tweets from Twitter and upload them to livejournal. I kinda like it and I think it's a massive improvement over LoudTwitter since it follows replies to give some sense of the various conversations that we all have over twitter. It's not perfect however and it's definitely not release quality ( ( Read more... ) -
Lyrics game
Stealing entirely without mercy from aurora77The rules: Here are lyrics from 25 songs off my playlist randomly chosen by iTunes. Reply with artist, song title. Comments are screened, everyone who guesses correctly wins credit. No Googling (or using another search engine). That's cheating. I've tried to pick "harder" lyrics for more well-known songs ( Read more... ) -
On salads and summer.
Ok, so I've been kinda down lately... (ok really down, but being unemployed does that ( Read more... ) -
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Being a Stanford alum, that this story has made the rounds in its various permutations amuses me greatly. There's actually another story, about a similar situation at Harvard, but that one is less compelling because he was doing it not out of desire to go to a good school as much as a sketchy desire to ingratiate himself amongst the undergrads and ( Read more... ) -
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Horray for Valentine's Day
I enjoy Valentine's day, more out of amusement than anything. Everyone attaches so much emotional significance to being coupled up on a random mid-February day, but it's a totally pointless choice of date or occasion, entirely fabricated by the candy industry. And the silliest things make people happy today, even though the weather is miserable ( Read more... ) -
On education, a delayed rant
This is a response to silveradept's post on modern education, so read that first for a fuller picture.
In his piece, silveradept argues against the conclusions drawn by WSJ opinion columnist Charles Murray in his three part series on the state of modern education in the United States and changes that should be made to it. In particular, Murray concludes that too many ( Read more... ) -
Adopt me! (A recipe for the Superbowl)
So I've made this wings recipe for Superbowls past but I'm lame and not hosting a party this year so the recipe needs a good home for the game. Trust me, they're really good ( Read more... ) -
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You know, I wish LJ had an option for “smart” quotation marks when posting, such that they replace ' and " with ‘, ’, “ and ” as appropriate.
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An offer.
Now that I’m commuting to work, I have to commute from work. And walking back from the bus stop every day, I pass by a fruit/vegetable stand. So today, being in a particularly annoyed mood from a bad day at work, I was waking home and felt the urge to buy a bunch of snow-covered lemons from the poor vendor who probably spent his whole day outside ( Read more... )