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Happy to be a failure
Or at least, not a brilliant billionaire-by-thirty business person type ( Read more... ) -
Friday afternoon meme sheepage
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Gratteciella!
- A thimbleful of Gratteciella would weigh over 100 million tons. You know, that would explain a lot ...
- Gratteciella has enough fat to produce 32 bars of soap. Actually, this is probably true, alas ...
- Gratteciella can turn her stomach inside out! Really! Wanna see?
- Bananas don't grow on trees - they grow on ( Read more... )
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Apocalypse Food
I am much too addicted to Jelly Bellies. I just can't resist a junk food that's only 3 calories per bean. Right now the jelly beans I'm snacking on are *international* jelly bellies -- they've been to China and back, brought by my parents when I begged. I somehow didn't end up eating them, probably because you can't have your beans and eat them ( Read more... ) -
Things I found in my coworker's cube
After two days out with a cold, I'm back on the beam again. Actually ( Read more... ) -
All right, fine, a meme.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (I’ve read the first 1 or 2, but not all 3)
Harry Potter and the Half- ( Read more... ) -
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I think that the controversy over James Frey's book, A Million Little Pieces, is very interesting. Basically, for those who haven't been following, his book (a memoir about his recovery from addiction and various traumatic childhood occurrences) was listed as part of Oprah's book club -- supposedly she said he was the man who made her cry at night ( Read more... ) -
Blast from the past
And now, something that only a few of you will even understand...
The other day at a party, I ran into someone's kid brother, currently a freshman or sophomore at Stanford. And it turns out he's also a juggler! After a bit of cajoling, he demonstrated Mills Mess, several other techniques whose names I don't know, and yes, even Rubenstein's ( Read more... ) -
GIP! (where I = interests, not icon)
And since I'm off to such a strong start: Check it out! I have interests! I have pseudo-intellectual quotes instead of a bio! -
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Today I am usability testing. Actually, doing card sorts, which is even more boring than usability testing because instead of watching the users screw up^H^H^H^H^H^H^H use the site and provide data, you watch people sort cards into little piles. Later, you take the piles upstairs and put numbers into spreadsheets. Hooray data entry ( Read more... ) -
\m/ BACH!
These are so awesome. I think my brother needs a set for Hanukkah. (Oh, and thechaim42, this is for you ( Read more... )