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Moving!
As alluded to in my last few entries, I'm moving off livejournal. LJ is a great platform, but I want a bit more control and I've been wanting to have a good web presence for a while (since I no longer have lehigh.edu/~mrc8).
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TV Guide asked presidential candidates about their favorite TV showsBarack Obama's all-time favorite is The Wire (alongside M*A*S*H), which I find impressive. Now that I think of it, it's the only show that would impress me to hear a candidate talk about. I think that should be required watching for anyone in public office ( Read more... ) -
A Poorly-Worded Question
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Thougthts on LJ
For the Nth time in my life, I'm considering leaving livejournal to blog elsewhere. I'm not sure where.. I could use Blogger or I could use wordpress on magicspatula.
This new desire comes from setting up FriendFeed tonight, as well as starting to update my Google Reader Shared Items. I'm using this journal as a manual aggregator for things I ( Read more... ) -
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My favorite blog post headline so far this year: Scientists to make cows fart like kangaroosIt's not as absurd as it seems, though... cow digestion produces methane, which is a significant greenhouse gas (mostly through burps, though). Methane is more detrimental to the environment than CO2, but it's also less common (and perhaps more difficult to ( Read more... ) -
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New York Times 2007 Year in Photos is worth a look. They made short montages of the best photos organized vaguely by subject. Additionally, there's an audio track with a photographer discussing what it was like to be there. -
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I'm doing a google swag order and bringing a bunch of stuff to Lehigh on the 18th. If you read my journal, you're welcome to pick something out for yourself and I'll order it for you. I get them at significant discount. Pick something out at the google store and let me know within 24 hrs (preferably via email). -
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For those of you missing The Daily Show, you may enjoy some podcasts from John Oliver (perhaps my favorite current correspondent). He and Andy Zaltzman have 10 episodes, about 30 mins each, of really funny news-related comedy at The Bugle: Audio Newspaper for a Visual World. Some of the topics are British, but most of it is quite accessible to ( Read more... ) -
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A hilarious short list: 7 Habits of Highly Successful People. That site has some great stuff, including Personals from Nonpersons (my favorite is "Toyota Prius seeks irritating pseudoenvironmentalist for smug attitude and poorly informed dinner-party rant on Middle Eastern oil politics.") -
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I wrote up some personal goals for the next few months, in several different areas, analogous to the goals that I set at work. These cover what I want to do in terms of fitness, socializing, music, correspondence, and reading. These are all quantifiable, ongoing goals, such as "bike to work 4 times per week on average", so I'm using Joe's Goals, ( Read more... )