March 2009
24 posts
Extroverted like me. - By Seth Stevenson - Slate... →
Nice vignette about his 2 months on Paxil for social anxiety. I think I’ll stay shy.
Command-line Fu < The best UNIX commands on the... →
My current favorite pulls a random Futurama quote from Slashdot: `curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep ‘^X-(F|B|L)’ | cut -d - -f 2`
Me: you're turning in to me!
Sarah: I know, it's kind of awesome actually
week in review
This week has started off much differently than last week, with the first pickup game of the season on Sunday, my return to PVCF today and spending both evenings at home with a good book. Well, the Good Book; I’ve started reading the Bible again. At the moment, I’m in the middle of Deuteronomy.
Last week was mostly a giant binge. Worked during the day, went out to party at night. ...
Que comience el espectáculo
magicmolly:
It’s hard to be in thrall to more than one abstraction at a time, whether it’s love, loss, despair or anything else. Our bodies are very strict at limiting us to one of these things at a time, in the same way that we aren’t able to focus on background and foreground simultaneously. You can try, but in both cases it makes you feel goofy.
Jurassic 5 - Thin Line
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Tracy Unick, 911... →
Quick Q&A with an EMS dispatcher/trainer. There’s a special place in my <3 for the great dispatchers over at Hampshire.
pop quiz! →
How long does it take for the Earth to revolve around the Sun?
Did early humans and dinosaurs coexist?
What percentage of the Earth’s surface is covered by water?
If you answered all 3 correctly, you’re in a pretty exclusive club: only 21% of U.S. could do so.
tab dump: home improvement edition
Dark Was The Night
Stylish and easy to make bookshelf
How to Make and Install Hungarian Shelves
Rehydration drinks
Sports: Make Your Own Sports Drink
Data is not the Same as Information « Groundswell
"Cocktail Recipes for the Recession" Online Only:... →
Nasdaiquiri: “Add a dozen IPOâs to portfolio, wait until bubble bursts, drink all day every day.”
This was the first day in a long while that we haven’t talked. It feels like there’s something left to do , but that’s not going to get done. But I think it’s how she needs it to be.
Plant!?
(cap via Movies et al.)
I’m thinking about getting a plant or two for my room. What’s a good kind for someone who isn’t good with plants?
I think I’ve heard cacti are pretty indestructible.
Philip Pullman’s keynote - The virtues of the... →
“We are a better people than our government believes we are; we are a better nation.”
Quantum physics and reality | I'm not looking,... →
Turns out that the universe does exist when we’re not observing it. Although, I’m not sure why that ‘trick’ worked; I figure that the universe is probably smart enough to figure that out.
Cruft-O-Matic - software studies, technocultures,... →
Some people reading about software studies (similar to what I did my Div III on)
“Just because you don’t know your direction doesn’t mean you...”
– BSG Piano Man
“Anyone else noticed that the Dow Jones Average now serves the same purpose on...”
– Ezra Klein (seen immediately after commenting that CNN really doesn’t need to be constantly showing the DJIA on-screen)