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A personal challenge!
If you've known me for a long period of time, you know that I generally hate The Beatles with fervor. I despise the fact that American popular culture has pushed many people to pretend that they are in love with a band whose music they'd never listen to on their own accord. Thankfully, commercials and movies give these people the rudimentary ( Read more... ) -
On intellectual property
It's not a problem that's new to anyone that owns a computer. The continuing controversy surrounding free use and intellectual property is one of the most pressing legal issues today. It used to be an issue of civilians versus The Man, but now musical artists themselves are challenging the limits of copyright, record distribution, and the like ( Read more... ) -
Assessment
I have been at Princeton for a month. I'm really thankful for this month; if I hadn't come I wouldn't be nearly as prepared as I am now ( Read more... ) -
Don't be such a quitter, Yahoo Mail!
"Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out." -
My first college grade! :D
Ignore the smiley face ( Read more... ) -
"Kimme More" remix
Don't listen to it.
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Current events + ongoing thoughts
While browsing online news today, I ran across an article that's a culmination of issues that I've been thinking about recently.
You may or may not know who Robert Louis Gates is. He's a professor of African-American Studies at Harvard (and a pretty important scholar in the field of African-American Studies in general). Today he was arrested for ( Read more... ) -
The end of an (aff)era
As we all know, Governor Sanford mysteriously took a wrong turn on the Appalachian Trail, ended up in Argentina, and cheated on his wife. And, like most people I know, I was happy to hear that he was finally resigning from the governorship. I too had my laugh when I heard the news. After a while though, I did begin to feel a little sorry for him. I ( Read more... ) -
The expected suburban angst
Sometimes I like to imagine what my life would be like if I were a Puritan, or even something less severe like a Quaker or Amish. I've always sort of admired the way they lived, without a whole bunch of extra stuff or distractions around. The closest I got to such a lifestyle was living in a small room at Governor's School for two years without an ( Read more... ) -
Yay.
I think I'm going to go ahead and do the name-change thing on Facebook. I'd rather go by Barry in college, I think.
I'm reading The Iliad. It's very bloody.