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How Photos Make you Feel
The first word that comes to my head when I see this photo is heaviness. A huge heaviness that can’t be overcome. Even though it’s only 10 lbs, from the angle that I shot this, it seems to convey a strong sense of weight.
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Getting back into Civ4
I played some Beyond the Sword this weekend. First game was my first civ game in what has to be at least half a year. I’ve just been busy with other hobbies/games. This was the first time I was actually able to have a Corporation. I built the Sushi and Cereal corporations. Pretty interesting concept. …
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WALL*E is, hands down, the best Pixar Movie Ever!
I don’t recall if I’ve ever mentioned it on this blog, but I hate going to the movies. I’ve nearly given it up. The only exceptions are Pixar movies and the very few movies that I can’t wait until they come out on DVD to watch. So today I went to see WALL*E with my…
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Happy Birthday!
You know who you are. I just didn’t want to give identity theives more info.
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On LinuxToday a few days ago
Once again I was pretty excited to find that I had been aggregated onto LinuxToday for this blog post. The funny thing is that I almost didn’t make that blog post as I was contemplating it for over a week and usually if I wait that long, the blog post doesn’t get written.
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I was dugg!
For what I think is the first time, I was dugg for my Xfce article!
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Trudging Through Lord of the Rings Part 2
A few days ago I finished The Fellowship of the Rings. Things picked up in the second half of the book and they accelerated in the last quarter. I’m enjoying The Lord of the Rings a lot more now that Tolkien has gotten Tom Bombadil out of his system. In the Wikipedia article, even Tolkien…
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Making Babies
3/4ths of this XKCD strip explain exactly how I feel about having kids.
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Twitter-like Post: A look into Cornell’s Past
I am just sharing this because it’s about my alma mater, it’s a little funny in a geeky way, and I like Mark’s blog. Check out this story about CIT and Cornell labs.
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My Newfound Love for Xfce!
For the past week to two weeks I’ve done something I had’t done in years – I switched my default desktop environment in my GDM login screen. I’ve been logging into Xfce instead of my usual Gnome. There are basically three reasons why I’m loving Xfce over Gnome. First of all, I love the theme.…
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Twitter-like Post: Da Hui
Back in High School I got The W’s Fourth from the Last album and one of my favorite tracks was titled “Hui”. I thought that, like some of the other songs on the album, it was just a nonsensical song and that calling the thugs on the beach “The Hui” was just because it sounded…
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Top 20 Pictures on Flickr
The top ten are mostly the same photos they’ve been for a while now, but the bottom ten have changed a bit. It’s very, very intersting (to me, at least) that every digital camera I’ve ever used is represented in the Top 20. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12…
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Twitter-like Post: Uninstalling BitTorrent
I’m uninstalling BitTorrent 5.0.9 from my Windows computer because every time the computer starts up, if I don’t exit from the program, all of my internet-related programs lose their connections. This is way too misbehaved and I’m sick of it. I’m moving to Transmission or one of the other ones that aren’t crap. I can’t…
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The Effects of a Cornell Graduation
As I’ve mentioned before, although I think it was on It’s A Binary World 1.0, a Cornell education does something strange to you. Like seeing vectors when speeding up and slowing down your car. Or in the way in which you explain why Dan will be escorting two bride’s maids at Phil’s wedding: ?(09:00:29 PM)…
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Trudging Through Lord of the Rings
I’ve read time and again that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (which is actually not a trilogy, but one massive book published in 3 parts) has all kinds of allegorical content and contains a lot of stuff Peter Jackson had to leave out of the movies. Well, they’re certainly right about Mr Jackson leaving…