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fascinating
Apparently you can get all the way through journalism school, work your way up through the ranks, become an editor - perhaps even editor-in-chief! - at a renowned institution such as Time Magazine, and still not understand the difference between the past, present and future tenses.
Crossposted from: blahg.blank.org
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for science!
Homemade kimchee-jeon project: qualified success. Needs more/better kimchee, actual griddle, actual kochu karu. Clearly a shopping trip is warranted.
Homemade blueberry cabernet sorbet project: muah hah hah hah. It’s alive, Igor, it’s aliiiiive! (Seriously, I may have to make several gallons of this.)
Crossposted from: blahg.blank.org
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in passing
Requiscat In Pace:
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two steps forward, three steps back
The (more or less) complete list of things that constantly annoy me about my iPhone that are apparently not going to be fixed in version 4.0:- Ugly, modal, history-less, illegible alert dialogs.
- In fact, with “local alerts” subbing in for any sort of actual IPC, this is going to get much, much worse.
- No custom SMS/calendar/voicemail alert sounds. ( ( Read more... )
- Ugly, modal, history-less, illegible alert dialogs.
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always read the fine print, baby
Poor, poor Sanjay Gupta. When he signed on as CNN’s medical correspondent, it must have seemed like an incredible deal: he’d visit far and distant lands (Iraq, Louisiana), report back incredible stories and generally raise America’s consciousness of both the scientific and political aspects of medicine.
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the end of the world as we know it
So is this the end of America as we know it, and the dawn of a new socialist dark ages?
God, if only. But it’s a nice step in the right direction.
(To my occasional readers who came here by way of Dr. Landsburg and/or Dr. Kling: believe it or not, I’d be equally happy with a bill that simply outlawed health insurance entirely in much the same way ( Read more... ) -
dear lazyweb: personal finance software?
Dear Lazyweb:
Quicken? Quicken Essentials? Mint? Moneydance? GnuCash? MS Money? Some other thing I haven’t heard of? Pimp your solutions at me, please: go!
In an ideal world, this would:- have an iPhone app interface, so I can quickly add in things like restaurant bills
- do bill payment
- interface with my various bank/retirement accounts
- run on MacOS ( Read more... )
