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Hi imaginary friends. Long time no talk.
I started this blog in May 2005, ten years ago; and now I'm feeling pensive.
It is said, not entirely unreasonably, that Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Ten years ago, I'd lug around a copy of the New York Review of Books with me and post ponderous posts ( Read more... ) -
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Me in lecture: "so when you get down to the axioms it's hairy. and hard. hard and hairy. yeah." Totally unintentional, but they prolly don't believe it is, because of all the intentional dirty jokes ( Read more... ) -
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It occurs to me that I like annoying people the way some people like spicy food. -
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A query on Yahoo! Answers: What exactly does "you're not in love with me, you're in love with the idea of me" mean?
(Disclaimer: this was never directed at me.)
The answer, obviously, is that it means, exactly, "I'm not into you, go away ( Read more... ) -
2013
Until the year 2012, I was more or less preoccupied with trying to please various supervisors ( Read more... ) -
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* Board games = recreational combinatorial optimization
* Taking the bus to NYC is like an adventure, taking the train is like being in a Scandinavian prison
* Despite what I implied on the midterm, the reciprocal of the expectation is not the expectation of the reciprocal; so that was embarrassing. -
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"You don't wanna know and, more pertinently, I don't want you to know" is attested on google. -
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I liked Fraaahncemy unsustainable lifestyle in Fraaahnce (which in no way was sustainable past 2012) so much better than here. Damn.
On the other hand, this time of the year two years ago I was unhappy and uncertain too, and look how that turned out. -
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It's very much not the album I would be picking for this if I were to consider my vanity, but the songs which move me the most in the primal (as opposed to intellectual/emotional/aesthetic/etc) sense are from Metric's Fantasies
Some people have described Metric as dude indie rock (but Time maintains it's chick rock), and then there's also this:
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"fucking qualia how do they work"
is not anymore a google-whack as of right now
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