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"Surely, mine will be rounder."
A phrase which has made me cringe since birth is "don't reinvent the wheel." While I have no desire to make a career out of duplicating the efforts of another, this particular cliche has never failed to stifle my imagination. At the bottom I've always suspected that those who constantly chant mantras against reevaluation of translational motion ( Read more... ) -
Social drinking, responsibility, reverence for the law, and silly things that shouldn't be
I did some clearing out of groups on the Facebook today, and I realized the time has passed for me to leave the "Mysterious Non-drinkers" group I started freshman year. The group has grown and shrunk in the past. It started as a personal ultimatum to everyone which I first accepted myself: don't drink underage and bash the laws without working to ( Read more... ) -
Totally awesome
An amazing natural extension of the iPhone by Microsoft (near-ripoff, if you will ( Read more... ) -
Worth repeating
Below is a quote from the discussion on a recent slashdot article from QuoteMstr. The article was claiming math isn't necessary for Computer Science. It's well worth repeating.Algorithms exist whether you think about them or not, but if you don't think about them, you'll accidentally create terrible ones ( Read more... ) -
What have we here?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19588942/
This is eloquent and passionate. However, it strikes me as suspicious that the motion for both Bush and Cheney to resigns comes after Nancy Pelosi becomes Speaker of the House (who, for those of you in Rio Linda, is next in line for ( Read more... ) -
Hi everyone!
With my paper journal lost, I may just need to return here for a time. I still prefer the version I can hide ( Read more... ) -
The homily wasn't a bad one--it was Tradition vs. tradition and the preciousness of the Eucharist. I
focused on the Gospel Reading:He said to them, "Give them some food yourselves."
They replied, "Five loaves and two fish are all we have,
unless we ourselves go and buy food for all these people."I looked around the church. It was a nice church in the city of New Brunswick, but there couldn't have been more than 100 in attendance. Now the men there ( Read more... ) -
Survey says....
From http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8O1C7S80&show_article=1, titled "Harvard Club Promotes Abstinence ( Read more... ) -
Journal logs for the summer are in a paper journal.
Were I not naturally invulnerable, I would be feeling very vulnerable right now. -
A doodle is worth a thousand words
The DoodleThis doodle came into existence during a final exam review. Besides the doodle, the painfully-stretched review let me write down my recent insights into what makes a good class from a student's perspective ( Read more... )
