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Bopalong

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:18:40 GMT

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The Politics of Spite

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:11:22 GMT

There was what President Obama likes to call a teachable moment last week, when the International Olympic Committee rejected Chicago’s bid to be host of the 2016 Summer Games.

“Cheers erupted” at the headquarters of the conservative Weekly Standard, according to a blog post by a member of the magazine’s staff, with the headline “Obama loses! Obama loses!” Rush Limbaugh declared himself “gleeful.” “World Rejects Obama,” gloated the Drudge Report. And so on.

So what did we learn from this moment? For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the modern Republican Party, has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old.

via nytimes.com

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Scalia on Lawyers

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:21:06 GMT

I mean there’d be a, you know, a defense or public defender from Podunk, you know, and this woman is really brilliant, you know. Why isn’t she out inventing the automobile or, you know, doing something productive for this society?

I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but it doesn’t put food on the table and there have to be other people who are doing that. And I worry that we are devoting too many of our very best minds to this enterprise.

via blogs.wsj.com

This is for all the people who have suggested I go on to law school.

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Alice

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:44:57 GMT

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The Shins - Wipe My Butt

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:29:31 GMT

Wipe My Butt by The Shins
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No he's never, ever, ever gonna wipe his butt.

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I wish more textbook examples were so colorful.

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:08:21 GMT

We need to be careful to distinguish between rationality and omniscience. An omniscient agent knows the actual outcome of its actions and can act accordingly; but omniscience is impossible in reality. Consider the following example: I am walking along the Champs-Elysées one day and I see an old friend across the street. There is no traffic nearby and I'm not otherwise engaged, so, being rational, I start to cross the street. Meanwhile, at 33,000 feet, a cargo door falls off a passing airliner, and before I make it to the other side of the street I am flattened. Was I irrational to cross the street? It is unlikely my obituary would read "Idiot attempts to cross street."

via Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Second Edition)

As if the example wasn't already sadistic enough, the footnotes go on to reference a 1989 Washington Post article about how nine passengers flew to their death when a cargo door blew open and flew away on the way to New Zealand.

See N. Henderson, “New door latches urged for Boeing 747 jumbo jets,” Washington Post, 8/24/89.

I wish more textbooks could keep me so entertained.

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The Long Winters - Scent of Lime

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:01:34 GMT

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Not bad for my first time.

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:20:54 GMT

This morning, before work, I went out with a co-worker of mine to a local shooting range. I've been meaning to make my way out to one for ages. I thank T-Rez for the opportunity to finally do so, it was really an awesome experience.

The indoor gun range was empty, so I was able to talk to him about the finer points of gun safety and proper technique. Shooting really is a science, one that I hope to continue improving upon in the future.

The two guns I used were both Glock 23 pistols, one with a modified barrel to shoot .22 LR cartridges, and another that shot the typical .40 S&Ws. Turns out I did pretty well for myself for my first time.

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Can Do

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:11:20 GMT

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A Vicious Cycle

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:59:29 GMT

Why do we do this? Because everyone uses Word, so we have to. And why does everyone use Word? Because everyone uses Word. It starts to make sense if you just hit your head on the wall enough times.

via arstechnica.com

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Why you should be excited for Tron Legacy

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:26:22 GMT

Daft Punk is doing the film score.
Kevin Flynn is back.
THIS:

YES.

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Consolidation

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:44:16 GMT

It's about time that I gave my LiveJournal some attention as opposed to posting elsewhere online. I just changed the way the front page looks and changed some of my syndication settings so that there isn't an entry for every Twitter message I put online, but instead a single entry that is sent once a day. I have to thank the argument I had with xololovepuppy on Facebook for that; I can see how excessive updates on a medium that wasn't made for it could become annoying.

In all honesty though, I'll probably go back to just using my LiveJournal as my primary way to blog, while keeping around Twitter for random status messages and Posterous for my sharing of media and quotes. All of the stuff I post on these will still be posted here, just not at a constant rate like before.

For so long, I felt that I can totally control everything I shared online by only posting on a blog that I hosted myself while discussion and the like could rest totally tangential to it on other services. Honestly though, it just complicates things. I don't want to access several different services to have discussion with those I care about online, I just want to go on two or three different sites at most (LJ, Facebook, and Twitter respectively).

I suppose this behavior will lead me to change how my regular website looks. It should really just be a collection of links to my activity online and personal projects as they come up as a result.

I hate being so meta (posting on my blog about my blog, blegh) but the point is, barring any sweeping changes to the service, I'm back on LJ for good.

Most of you probably won't even notice what's changed, or even care, but I just wanted to let that out.

ADDENDUM: Eh, screw it. The medium's part of the message, I see little point in syndicating my Twitter feeds on here. Just go on the page if you wish to see them. Each site I'm on is an island, and I might as well keep it that way. Hooray for sane entries once more.

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:09:47 GMT

BAKLAVA!

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:48:13 GMT

Lying around barefoot on a patch of cool grass reading comic books on a beautiful summer day is awesome.

Josh White - One Meat Ball

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:45:10 GMT

On the bright side for this little man, you can't buy anything at a
restaurant for fifteen cents nowadays.

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Requiem For A Trusted Voice Of Reason

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:34:56 GMT

Today, so much of the media doesn't try to reach a mass audience, with all its unpredictable diversity and variations. They look for like-minded people who want a view of the news that will reassure them that they're right — that "that's the way it is." But in the welter of news sources, whom will they trust to tell them when it's not?

via npr.org

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Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:35:49 GMT

I want to code something awesome, but I've already been coding at work all day. This is disheartening.

Hot Lava - Blue Dragon

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:19:57 GMT

Blue Dragon by Hot Lava
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Not to be mistaken for the disappointment of an RPG from Mistwalker.
This is probably one of the most infectious songs I've come across in
recent memory. It's far too catchy.

NOTE: If you received this post several times, I apologize. Between
Posterous being unusually slow and imeem being lame (30 seconds for an
embedded song? Screw you guys.) this ended up being posted far too
many times.

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Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:37:37 GMT

Took a glorious morning flight over Boston and Cape Cod, all before work! Having a pilot for a co-worker is awesome.

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Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:37:50 GMT

Thanks Poore.
Thanks a whole lot.

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Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:23:32 GMT

English Breakfast Tea: Brought to you by the nations of India and Sri Lanka. Mercantilism rocks.

‘To live under constraint is a misfortune, but there is no constraint to live under constraint.’

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:10:26 GMT

"’It was Epicurus who said that,’ you protest. ’What business have you got with someone else’s property?’ Whatever is true is my property. And I shall persist in inflicting Epicurus on you, in order to bring it home to the people who take an oath of allegiance to someone and never afterwards consider what is being said but only who said it, that the things of greatest merit are common property."

Seneca the Younger, Letters from a Stoic - Letter XII

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I possess an urge to buy a high-speed camera.

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:13:49 GMT

Aside from just how awesome the film already is, "Chunga's Revenge",
the background music of this film, was originally composed by Frank
Zappa and performed by Gotan Project.

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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:45:35 GMT

DOG HAIR EVERYWHERE.

Skeleton in the Closet

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:10:13 GMT

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