So I've been reading Captain Awkward a lot, and it's mostly constructive and funny, although sometimes I worry that it's making me fixate unhealthily on all the things that are wrong and broken in my life. Earlier this week she was answering a letter from someone who "always falls for fixer-uppers", and she linked to this post on Tomato Nation ( Read more... )

Someone stepped on a mouse on our sidewalk, and it's just lying there, all squished and dead and mouselike. Much as I hate mice, it's too horrible to imagine doing that, somehow.

In barely-thematically-related news, I finished reading the Hunger Games trilogy and I continue to be impressed. They went fast, because YA is fast - I had forgotten how ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman speaks at UArts Commencement about idealism and making good art. Maybe we should've crashed it, had we known!


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Fun fun.

(Released 4 pm today. I just finished my draft solution.)
(Official solutions aren't posted yet. I like the third mechanics problem a lot.)

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(Sorry, wrote this on my phone, typo'd and wrote "I think you have seen the movie yet" when I meant "I think you have seen the movie already." Apologies for any confusion about that answer choice: it was not the linguistic phenomenon I was curious about, just a silly typo. And of course I can't edit the poll once it's running.)

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As I may have mentioned earlier, the minister at my church has done a roughly comparable job of uprooting himself from New York City to my own, for all that he's been a really good fit for this Old City Philadelphia church. The context in which it came up in today's sermon was Pennsylvania's new voter ID laws, which require you to present ( Read more... )

Google Maps has DART information now!!!

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In the notes before the recently-posted Chapter 79 of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, the author has the following helpful advice for his readers.

General P/S/A: If you were good at algebra and are presently making less than $120,000/year, you should test yourself to see if you enjoy computer programming. Demand for programmers far ( Read more... )

"One of the first signs they noticed that told them the system was seriously broken was when their housekeepers mentioned that they owned 25 houses in Queens."

There's just something about that sentence. We were upset at John McCain for (among other things) owning how many houses, again?

Also, from yesterday's
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