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!"