Archive for November, 2008
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27 Nov 2008
"Foster's just rickrolled Thanksgiving. Awesome."
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25 Nov 2008
"Twenty hours of debugging, and the problem is that my select tag was outside my form. You suck, self!"
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25 Nov 2008
Each one of these bailouts make me angrier than the last. Mostly because the politicians are almost certainly supporting them because doing something -- even something stupid -- is perceived better than doing nothing. The Big 3 aren't the whole US auto industry. -
25 Nov 2008
Recently listened to: Okkervil River – The Stand Ins, Muse – Origin of Symmetry, Etta James – Blue Gardenia
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24 Nov 2008
Remember four years ago, when M had to make a huge list of hospitals where she wanted to do her residency? And then she had to interview at a bunch of them? And then throw her name on a pile that got fed into a giant algorithm?
Well,
we’reshe’s doing it again. There are 9 hospitals on the list for a rheumatology fellowship, and the list of possible cities looks a lot like the last time around. We’ll know where she’ll be interviewing by sometime in January, interviews themselves will be in February, and then match day is June 17. -
24 Nov 2008
"Say you had a six-inch DVI-male to DVI-female cable. What in the hell is it for?"
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22 Nov 2008
"Paint. Muffins. DD-WRT. I love Saturdays."
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21 Nov 2008
"When Bertoni showed me a list of his 25 most-difficult-to-predict movies, I noticed they were all similar in some way to 'Napoleon Dynamite' — culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including 'I Heart Huckabees,' 'Lost in Translation,' 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' 'The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,' 'Kill Bill: Volume 1' and 'Sideways.'" Love, hate, enjoy, enjoy, meh, love, meh.
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21 Nov 2008
"Is there a word for "a person you know through the Internet who you think would be your friend in real life"? (No, not stalkee.)"
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20 Nov 2008
Several interesting meta-things are showing up about Mechanical Turk recently.
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20 Nov 2008
"This is .. the story of how voting patterns in the 2008 election were essentially determined 85 million years ago." Amazing.
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20 Nov 2008
Oh hell yes.
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19 Nov 2008
""Does your product support Microsoft Surface?" Really? Is this a serious question?"
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18 Nov 2008
Recently listened to: Beck – Guero, My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges, TV on the Radio – Dear Science
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17 Nov 2008
"Rust isn't boring! It's the most interesting oxidation there is!"
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15 Nov 2008
Obama plans to do these every week, and continue to upload them to YouTube when he's President.
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14 Nov 2008
"My commuting costs just went up by $3 per day. http://lnk4.us/Ukjs"
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14 Nov 2008
"Trying to figure out a good way to sell old NVAD t-shirts."
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13 Nov 2008
A short film that takes place parallel WALL-E. (Spoilery if you haven't seen the movie.)
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13 Nov 2008
It looks like when they finish counting all of the ballots, convicted felon Ted Stevens will fail to be re-elected to the Senate. The Franken-Coleman recount in Minnesota won't be resolved for probably a month.
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11 Nov 2008
"Dear gcj, You make everything more difficult. Love, Plutor"
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11 Nov 2008
Recently listened to: Brendan Benson – The Alternative to Love, My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges, The Wind Whistles – undefined
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10 Nov 2008
Everything you type on an Android phone is executed with superuser privileges. How does that get through testing?
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10 Nov 2008
That's a weird way to spin its death, but it lasted five months when it was expected to only last three. Impressive, but it's no Spirit or Opportunity, both more than four years past their original mission.
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10 Nov 2008
"Am I the only one getting "McCain lawyers impeach Obama!" spam?"