May 2012
2 posts
Motherhood vs. Feminism - Room for Debate -... →
Interesting (and sometimes seriously regressive) series of woman thinkers talking about work/life balance and the role of a woman as mother.
March 2012
2 posts
Crash Curb: SAT Subject Test in Blogging Practice →
strepsis:
Well versed in blogging? The Blogging Subject Test gives you the opportunity to highlight your strengths in reading and interpreting blog posts from a variety of historical periods (2009, 2010, 2011) and genres. Taking the test also gives you the opportunity to showcase your…
February 2012
1 post
December 2011
3 posts
Basically done?
Sorry, I haven’t forgotten you, Tumblr world. I’ve been reading, just had no time to contribute.
I think I’m done with work for the semester (less the writing portfolio I need to shape up next week).
Happy birthday to me.
“If only I would have checked myself”
– guy who wrecked himself (via superpussy)
September 2011
2 posts
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a...”
– — Elizabeth Warren, candidate for US Senate, as quoted by The New Republic
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August 2011
3 posts
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July 2011
4 posts
Hi Tumblr, I have failed at keeping up here! While I read my feed every day, I do more and more of my random-thought-spewing on G+. But I have to say that I don’t follow quite the same entertaining mix of anime/cartoon enthusiasts and extremely active politicos on G+. It’s just not as fun.
I am alive. Today I went to a meetup in a new neighborhood for me, and listened to a few...
One Week on Planet Asia
Executive summary: I’m working in private equity in Hong Kong from July 1 to August 29. It’s cool here, I’m getting used to it, but I’m lonely.
Hong Kong, at least most of the parts I spend time in, is vertical: skyscrapers as far as the eye can see. I work on the top floor of a 78-story building, the 4th tallest in the city. It has a killer view, as you can imagine.
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June 2011
4 posts
Also, to people who are trying to "change the...
Don’t whine about it on the internet with a poorly and unsoundly argued—but educated-sounding—rant, plug your own sort of ludicrous solution, and then hope people don’t see the lack of common sense behind your message.
If you want to change the way an industry works, the best way to do that is to establish your own industry, not make some petition with no target—who...
For Real Guys? →
In an age where business dominates our governments and writes our laws, every technological advance offers business an opportunity to impose new restrictions on the public. Technologies that could have empowered us are used to chain us instead.
With printed books,
You can buy one with cash, anonymously.
Then you own it.
You are not required to sign a license that restricts your use of it....
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
Do people not realize that every single one of us,...
themetropoliskid:
whatsajuthika:
kinda iffy about the word stupid but yes
this is not true! indigenous populations were not immigrants! slaves forcibly brought over against their own will are not immigrants! we are not a nation of immigrants
We are like 85% a nation of willing immigrants. And I think that the gist is almost every single person here was once an outsider. Pilgrims were, and...
March 2011
6 posts
Lent 1
Hi and welcome to ASH WEDNESDAY!
Today, millions of Catholics around the world (and some sympathizers such as myself), were really hungry all day. Lots of them had little ash crosses on their foreheads.
Though I am not Catholic, or even baptized, I observe the Catholic fasting days of Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. I think fasting is good for the mind: it resets your cravings, and you realize...
February 2011
8 posts
Teachers make too much money! →
melissalynsday:
Food for thought.
world-shaker:
Are you sick of high paid teachers? Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - baby sit! We can get that for less than minimum wage.
That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that...
Urban Youth: Arguments for ROTC →
dictionaria:
It seems to me that one of the major problems in the logic for banning ROTC is that the presence of the US military in other countries is far beyond the evil of the US military. The US military goes where the US government tells it to go, which is in turn supported by large…
In an effort to avoid being as sick as I was yesterday, I have invested in Flintstones vitamins. I slept 12 hours after a day full of soreness, exhaustion, and discomfort.
Got all my homework done. A good start to the semester, I hope. Lots of reading so far.
It’s a little of a bummer that I can’t go skiing this weekend with Eddo… especially with the huge amounts of snow this...
January 2011
14 posts
OPI Axxium: Experiences
I have terrible, weak nails, which shred and break and are constantly stubby due to their suicidal tendencies.
Or, I should say, I have naturally terrible nails. But one mustn’t have natural nails. We have options.
My history in fake nails:
Nasty “french nail” acrylics for 8th grade graduation, which I abused so sorely that they damaged my natural nails.
Pretty but fragile...
Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition →
WOW!
Adventures in eInk
My nook came today!
The UPS guy came holding a Barnes & Noble box, and said, Hey, this is real light, is it a book?
Not expecting him to really understand, I said, No, it’s a nook!
He said, Oh, did you get the color one?
I said, No, I got the normal one.
And he was off. I didn’t expect my UPS delivery guy to know the different types of ereaders available off the top of his...
Belief O-Matic →
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)2. Secular Humanism (95%)3. Theravada Buddhism (82%)4. Liberal Quakers (81%)5. Neo-Pagan (74%)6. Nontheist (69%)7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)8. New Age (60%)9. Reform Judaism (54%)10. Mahayana Buddhism (51%)11. Orthodox Quaker (45%)12. Taoism (45%)13. Sikhism (41%)14. Scientology (38%)15. Jainism (37%)16. New Thought (34%)17. Baha’i...