03 Nov 2006, 10:48 a.m.

Autumn

"Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- and life."

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03 Nov 2006, 9:21 a.m.

Geek Visit

My acquaintance Aaron Swartz is visiting NYC this weekend and staying with me & Leonard. We'd never quite gotten around to seeing each other after Leonard and I moved to the East Coast, so now …

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02 Nov 2006, 12:59 p.m.

Preparation

Since the family finds it useful: my wishlist. Sometime I'll update the music portion of that list. Beirut and Belle & Sebastian should be on there. And I may end up buying everything Jonathan Coulton …

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02 Nov 2006, 6:30 a.m.

Best Juror Ever

Seth Schoen's been placed on a jury. Man, Seth would be the best juror ever. I worry a tiny bit that he'll have a Matthew Baldwin experience ("reading an entire book on the scientific method …

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01 Nov 2006, 10:30 a.m.

Decision Theories

Avoiding Projects Pursued By Morons 101: There is much made by people who long for the days of their fourth form debating society about the fallacy of "argumentum ad hominem". There is, as I have …

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31 Oct 2006, 13:03 p.m.

Sucker For Covers

If I time it right, I can force thepAvedearth to play song after song by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.

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30 Oct 2006, 17:05 p.m.

Greenback-Colored Glasses

The business-y reports we have to write for my Corporate Finance class got to me when I was rereading P. Larkin's "This Be The Verse". The first two lines are "Executive Summary," the second half …

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29 Oct 2006, 8:43 a.m.

MC Masala on Diabetes

Why I was wrong when I jested about diabetes a couple of weeks ago. You see, obesity is a risk factor for diabetes, but just Type II, the type where your body starts resisting insulin. …

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29 Oct 2006, 8:38 a.m.

The Intriguing Darcy Burner

Alexandra Starr's NYT article today called to my attention the race for the House seat in Washington's Eighth District. Darcy Burner is the Democratic challenger. Some interesting facts about Burner: She was adopted. As she …

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27 Oct 2006, 13:46 p.m.

Quizzified

A US woman has the last name as a pretty durn famous US theologian, and has never heard of him.

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