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So I'm doing a little research for a short speech about using the internet to spread ethical culture that I'm supposed to be giving at the FES conference this Sunday. I found a great website (http://www.pewinternet.org/) that has a bunch of really interesting studies on internet use. ( Read more... )

It seems like I can only bring myself to update this thing ever 3 months or so. Ahh well, it's better than nothing I guess. A few things have been happening in my life recently and I figured I'd throw a post up here rather than contacting all of you personally. The first major item of news is that I'm now vegetarian. I started messing around ( Read more... )

Insomnia strikes again, as does knowledge!

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hershSo the guy who did the investigation (Major General Antonio M. Taguba) has finally retired and decided to grant interviews. Here's the first piece about them written in the upcoming issue of the New Yorker. A lot of the article is about ( Read more... )

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So I got rear ended on Saturday. This is the second time it's happened, and the circumstances are eerily similar. I pull up to a line of cars at a red light, I stop my own car and wait a few seconds, ten I hear a screech of tires, a boom and feel a slight thud. Also I know two isn't a good enough sample size to make any real judgements, but I ( Read more... )

So this morning I woke up at 7 am to take my roommate Xiaohui to the airport. He's going to China for three weeks to visit his family and had asked me for a ride. I figured that since I was getting free reign over his food while he was away it was the least I could do and accepted. As we walked down to my car in our parking garage and noticed a ( Read more... )

I don't really want to talk right now. The act of speaking is kind of revolting at the moment. Talking is my key form of pleasure, it seems so wrong to indulge in it. Instead I'm sitting here silently typing. Some of my friends are in the other room, cooking dinner, I spoke with them a few times, I even smiled when my friend Rob got Habenero in ( Read more... )

My cousin was found hanging in her closet yesterday. She was 25. Of all my cousins she was the closest one to me in age, and when I was younger her family was the one mine would visit the most. During these visits my brother would naturally hang out with her older sister and the two of us would naturally hang out while her younger brother would ( Read more... )

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