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Miscellany

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Coffee shop revolutionary – (noun) one who believes that progressive change results from whining about the current political climate over iced white mochas and chai tea lattes
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NSFW (i.e. put in some headphones)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHqq6kPbzsg
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You can now buy my personal information (including call registry, gps location data, and purchased services) from Verizon Wireless.
I’m not a constitutional lawyer or [...]

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A Rinzai satori

Monday, February 2, 2009

My grandmother was a member of the first women’s mountain climbing club in Colorado.  When my father joined a rescue team that operated in the Rocky Mountains, she passed down her wisdom on how to climb a mountain.  When I was a kid, my father passed this advice on to me as we climbed Mt. [...]

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I have no idea

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

I’m finally done with exams, and I have a few questions:
1. Why are flowcharts always funny?

Courtesy of Drew Toothpaste

Courtesy of Randall Munroe
2. What is it with quotes about dying young?
“The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew tree are of equal duration” – T.S. Eliot
“Live fast, die young, leave a [...]

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(Niederhut, 2008)

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Things that were slated as quotes of the day, but I felt deserved their own post:
“His words were meant to incite actions, not dissertations”
“Evolution is not just a word: it is a perspective”
“It is simply not possible to understand human anatomy, human neurobiology, or human psychology without recognizing that they have all been shaped by [...]

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