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“ Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin’ off Nantucket Sound from the nor’ east and the dogs are howlin’ for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the Ellie May, a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin’ and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests.
this year’s winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Content, which challenges people to create the worst first line of a novel. Bulwer-Lytton, if you don’t know, was the one who first used “It was a dark and stormy night.”
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America's Top Public High Schools | Newsweek Best High Schools | Newsweek.com
B-CC (my HS alma mater) ranks 55th, up from 64th last year. Sure, it’s a bit of a bogus measurement (AP and IB tests taken / graduating seniors) but it’s nice to be listed.
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CrossFit Faq: Explain the Works with Names (the Girls)
Since there’s a thunderstorm outside, I think I’ll be doing ‘Angie’ from my apartment.
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Last year, I did “what’s in your bag?” on Twitter. To mix it up a bit, here’s a photo of the applications I’m running. It’s pretty boring:
- pidgin (IM client, at the top left and top right)
- Firefox 3.0.11 (top middle, open to Google Reader)
- GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (bottom left, with code in the left pane and magit in the right)
- Miro trunk (bottom right; it’s got Joe Biden because I’m watching Sunday’s Meet the Press)
What’s running on your desktop?
Treating Chronic Knee Issues: An E-Mail Case Study (Part 1) - Thoughts.
My knees have been rough for a few years now. Squats have definitely helped, but I’m going to try some of the rehab stuff too.
Comments tabdump: ultimate layout edition
- The Huddle | Issue No. 19 focuses on the layout D-block
- Catching/Defensive Thought: Layout Technique - Thoughts. thinks about technique
Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Atul Gawande talks about why American health care costs so much, and why we’re not getting much for it.
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My new window garden, from clippings my mom sent me. An aloe plant, a pothos plant, a creeping charlie plant, and a spider plant!
“ [T]he only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.
George Vaillant, in response to the question “What have you learned from the Grant Study men?” (via The Atlantic Online | June 2009 | What Makes Us Happy? | Joshua Wolf Shenk)
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