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So, I have become something of an internet filter for some of my friends. A filter of a filter, actually. I send Jen, Veen, Mary, and occassionally, S/A, Shelli, or Vroman things from Digg that I think...
View ArticleThe laptop I ordered arrived today
It's a dell refurbished inspiron 1501. Here are the statistics for people who understand such things. I don't. Mobile AMD Sempron 3600+ (2.0GHz) Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic15.4 WXGA Laptop...
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I thought Milton Friedman was the first person to point out the miracle of the pencil. Turns out it was some other guy, Friedman was just a fan.I, Pencil
View ArticleMary wrote a review for imdb of the Bratz Movie.
3/10 starzWARNING: THIS COMMENT CONTAINS SPOILERS. BECAUSE KNOWING WHAT HAPPENS AHEAD OF TIME WOULD JUST RUIN THIS MOVIE.First of all, this movie is definitely better than "The Hottie and the Nottie"....
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you want a lj-cut, say so.
teflonspyder pointed me t'ward this. Here's why the author is an asshole.First of all, experiments in social science are INCREDIBLY difficult to perform. People on either side of the political spectrum...
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This quiz had some great questions.
What is Your World View?created with QuizFarm.comYou scored as ExistentialistExistentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make...
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So. My car broke down on the way to libertarian book club tuesday. Veen was with me, long story short, I owe shelli $140 for the tow he payed for so I could get it to this guy's house who fixes the...
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Ogre's Math Challenge
as promised, here is a math problem ogre called me with yesterday.I you drew a straight line between St Louis and Chicago, through the earth, what would be the maximum height of the earth's surface...
View ArticleProhibiton Related Antagonism
We make drugs illegal to save people from themselves, right? Well what about this? How false is my dichotomy if i propose we legalize drugs or depart on the slippery slope of banning or restricting...
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Rigged Political Quiz
I only took it once, I feel I should've gotten a higher socially permissive score. Some of the questions were very poorly worded. You are a Social Liberal(83% permissive) and an... Economic...
View ArticleFun with algebra COVERED IN OIL.
According to my admittedly dubious calculations, the oil drop depicted on the cover of this book would satisfy our current(actually 2005) oil consumption for over 7 million years.given:1 mi = 5280...
View Articlenew job
Oh yeah, and I got a job working in a free-market think tank.We have a blog. I have already posted in it. Scroll down to the one titled "Police You Can Count On".I am a research assistant, and I work...
View ArticleYou've gotta be fucking kidding me.
An article at time.com discusses the downsides to falling oil prices. The downsides? Really?When did the popular press start siding with the fatcats? I loves me some capitalism, but I take no truck...
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Wall Street too skittish to lend right now? Borrow from silicon valley!This article is incredible. After reading it, I immediately left a positive review on google for the pizza hut I'd visited the...
View Articlethoughts on stealing food?
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/is-a-wave-of-scuppie-shoplifting-upon-us/thoughts?
View ArticleA new religion?
I have just changed my facebook info page's Religious Views to "Prisoner's Dilemmist."This is a reference to the classic problem, the Prisoner's Dilemma (I shrink at the thought that I am insulting my...
View ArticleCheater Post: I didn't write this
My friend Vroman wrote this:How To Not FailThis is not a guide for success, that you have to figure out on your own. This is a guide on how to avoid abject failure. I have worked for a real estate...
View ArticleAncestral Recall, other power.
This will be short. I just want to get this down for posterity. A couple hours ago, I made the finals of a tournament where first prize was an Ancestral Recall. I wound up getting the Recall. It was a...
View ArticleI just blocked Alex W. on Gchat.
11:53 AM Alex: hello?11:57 AM me: hey11:58 AM Alex: are you busy? me: not really12:00 PM Alex: I gave up social democracy recently12:01 PM me: oh? what system do you presently favor? and what made...
View ArticleAlex W., actually any socialist.
In October of 2008 I started an email and gchat correspondence with a high schooler from Chesterfield named Alex. I met him on the local magic forums, stlmtg.com. It was there that I discovered that we...
View ArticleYear End Update
I wish I had accomplished more this year. Here's what I did.In the last couple days I received this in the mail. I am typing this entry on it.I have been cubing a lot more and got my best time ever the...
View Articletake home test from my first semester at UMSL
I came across this today, and I really like it, so here it is:[questions 1 and 2 were in-class, 3 and 4 were take home. I'm pretty sure the questions were something like 3.) Discuss the history of the...
View ArticleThe Story of the Shark Ghost
So, my friend and co-worker Chrissy is afraid of ghosts. And sharks. This weekend I mentioned this to Robert and he got a great idea and called her, anonymizing his call. His whole end of the...
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