05 Jul 2006, 8:22 a.m.

Barack Obama's Prayer

"A hope that we can live with one another in a way that reconciles the beliefs of each with the good of all." From a speech that I he wrote specifically for me, it seems.

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04 Jul 2006, 21:07 p.m.

"I am ICANN!"

Do you know anyone to nominate for ICANN? As long as they're not villains.

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04 Jul 2006, 20:47 p.m.

Independence From Work

Things I sort of wanted to do today: work on an essay, start reading The Baroque Cycle, rewrite a humorous play about Indian-Americans that my sister and I wrote ten years ago. In fact, I've …

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02 Jul 2006, 9:38 a.m.

Sumana Dismisses Dilettantes, Including Herself, in MC Masala

When your religion is someone else's tourist attraction. I once told my mother that I was becoming a Buddhist and renouncing worldly things. This was fine with her until I declared that this also applied …

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26 Jun 2006, 21:46 p.m.

Leftovers

Some leftover chunks of text: I get irrational if I'm trying to go to sleep alone. I need a light on, and music, and no windows open, even if it's dadblamed hot. Otherwise ninjas with …

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26 Jun 2006, 16:23 p.m.

Stories and Wages

Do you remember that great Vampire Domestication PowerPoint? The creator has a bunch of free short stories for you to peruse. "Mayfly" is creepy. Also: EFF is looking for a Staff Technologist to join Seth …

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26 Jun 2006, 16:07 p.m.

Hey Catholics

Zed linked to something hilarious re: Catholicism and that Dan Brown novel. Brendan already knows about this LiveJournal, but Claudia might not.

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26 Jun 2006, 11:59 a.m.

Tunnel

Now that I have read A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Malkiel, I can understand Daniel Davies on beta and his lyrical allusions to what Gladwell would call the black swan. A Davies bonus: …

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25 Jun 2006, 22:26 p.m.

MC Masala on Magical Thinking and Superstition

I share my weird superstitions.   But how comfortable are you naming a child after a living relative, or picking up a tails-up penny, or giving knives or scissors as wedding gifts, or swallowing a …

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21 Jun 2006, 17:49 p.m.

Bah/Argh

I am looking for an impossible thing, I think. I want to switch to a cell phone service that has pretty good reception in Manhattan and Astoria, that does not have an indelible reputation for …

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