Last year I used Anki a lot. It was pretty good, and I liked the software. Part of the problem with it is that once you started it, it was really hard to stop. And you had to use it every day. It got pretty insane. At its peak, I would have to study Anki for hours in order to get through a day's worth of material. I thought it would pay off when I ( Read more... )

I've had bad interviews before. I haven't quite had interviews where they look at what I've written and said "that... that is the stupidest solution I have ever seen..." before.

Until now!

AEON has two interview steps. You go for an informational session, and have a group interview. At the end of the group presentation and interview, they have you take a small spelling and grammar test. If things go well there, you have a personal interview ( Read more... )

One of my friends on lang-8 posted this, I thought it was too great not to share ( Read more... )

So I sent out an email to a fairly obscure friend I haven't talked to since high school, and part of me being fascesious was saying ( Read more... )

So this week I've been doing development work for realz again. It's pretty sweet. I'm learning interesting things about GUIs that I've never touched before, there's no real standards for what I have to do, and everyone has low expectations. Horray ( Read more... )

Regarding the 2000 film Traffic: I got opinions ( Read more... )

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/201003/jobless-america-futureThe more you read it, the more depressing things get. I recommend it anyway ( Read more... )

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I thought this was better than the state of the union.

For the state of the union I actually got a pizza ready :P. It was exciting ( Read more... )