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My recent obsession, French toast
How does French toast manage to be so awesome? Seriously. I just don't understand. Bread, pretty good. Eggs, good. French toast, amazing. The goodness function for eggs and bread is definitely non-linear, reaching it's maximum at an overly soaked eggy bread ( Read more... ) -
South Korea, don't destroy that which makes you great
Because I am sure that not all of my 2.5 readers read BoingBoing or slashdot. In South Korea, there are now internet addiction rehab boot camps.
Kang Min fighting! -
Representative pictures of Googlers
My roommate just came into my room complaining that the number one Google images result for "Terry Tai" was a picture of the Ticket to Ride cover. Google quickly wised up, however, and is now returning an image of Carcassonne. This led me to query for other Googlers who attended Columbia games night. Unfortunately, Hubert Chao is way too cool ( Read more... ) -
My sister is famous
Or at least, the Star Ledger quoted Kate Renaud about why she does programming contests.
"My friends ask, 'Why would you do that?'" said Kaitlin Renaud, 20, a Princeton junior, admitting it's difficult to explain to non-programmers the allure of rising early on a Sunday morning to do battle on a screen. "I really can't tell them. ... But it's ( Read more... ) -
In praise of Ubuntu
I just bought a music CD (gasp, the horror!). Ubuntu made ripping it to ogg so incredibly easy that I had extracted the first song before I even knew what format I was writing in. Literally it was 10 seconds between right clicking the CD icon on my desktop to starting the rip. -
iLike, you have eaten my metaphorical lunch
I discovered a pretty cool and useful Facebook app named iLike a few days ago. It implements the "show me bands I like who are touring near me" very well, and it has all other nice kinds of social features built in. It's done way better than something that I could hack up in my spare time, and hence, I quit ( Read more... ) -
Where should I buy music online?
This is related to the post about Brett Dennen. I want to buy his songs. I am willing to pay a reasonable amount per song (which seems like it is universally accepted to be $.99), and I'd like to buy from a minimally evil company. If the company stands against DRM, this is a plus. If the company doesn't donate large quantities of money to the ( Read more... ) -
Anyone hear of Brett Dennen?
I just heard his music on Pandora and liked it, so I did a bit of research. From an interview with him,
Rv: So every show you play you give a portion of your earnings to a local charity ( Read more... ) -
Mike Daisey's "Tongues Will Wag" is excellent
I previously wrote about wanting to support Mike Daisey to defend free speech. I went to see his latest show "Tongues Will Wag" tonight. Now I can recommend you see his shows for more than some crazy support-free-speech ideology; his show is simply great. He is such a gripping story teller and his monologues are hilarious. I really want to see ( Read more... ) -
A trio of awesome webcomics
I write this because I am slacking with the typsetting of my not sufficiently challenging Fundamental Algorithms class at NYU.
Web comic #1, Alien Loves Predator. I think anyone who has spent any significant amount of time in New York City can relate to this webcomic about the damn metrocard getting rejected by the turnstileComing in at #2, is ( Read more... )