18 Aug 2010, 15:47 p.m.

No Good Reason

From conversation with Leonard: Q as Will Shortz in the NPR Sunday puzzle. Picard: "I don't have time for your games, Q!" Q: "This 7-letter word explains why humanity should not be obliterated. Backwards, it's …

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17 Aug 2010, 12:36 p.m.

Fortune

There are tools and applications and widgets and whatnot that are meant to be fed a text file full of quotations so they can show you one every time you log into a website, or …

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16 Aug 2010, 23:31 p.m.

Home

Back in NYC. Thanks to Leonard & Mirabai for greeting me at JFK with a GODOT sign! More tomorrow, I hope.

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14 Aug 2010, 4:53 a.m.

A New Brother-In-Law(-To-Be), and A New Joy

My sister has just gotten engaged! Nineteen-second video by me, story by her. Her fella, Girish, is highly neat. He is kind, amiable, generous, funny, and industrious, and he reduces the net crazy of any …

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13 Aug 2010, 7:29 a.m.

An Ecstatic Patron of Recurrent Light

I first read The Great Gatsby in eleventh grade, Mr. Hatch's American Literature class. Every few years I reread it. I read it a few years ago, after moving to Astoria, and got a richer …

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11 Aug 2010, 15:37 p.m.

From "I Have A Tambourine" to "LOL Warmongers" (Really Just Listen To The Talk)

After making some absurd, thrice-removed-from-original-text inside joke with Leonard, like "I never Medipren I didn't like," I told him about Biella Coleman's & Finn Brunton's talk at HOPE about pleasure in political spectacle, lulzy media, …

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11 Aug 2010, 15:07 p.m.

Some Preliminary Thoughts On My Adoration Of The Week

Mysore is a few hours' train, car, or bus travel from Bangalore. Conventional wisdom says Mysore is a small, quiet city, with colleges and parks and long afternoons sipping coffee with friends and relatives. But …

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10 Aug 2010, 12:09 p.m.

Blogging, Historical & Logistical Notes

Today in history: ten years ago Leonard asked a Star Trek trivia question. I tried to answer it via email. This was before I'd ever met Leonard in person, and it was one of the …

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07 Aug 2010, 1:29 a.m.

The Great American Songbook

I am not very good at making small talk with my mom. So much of it brushes against my switchboard of buttons dusty and bright: how I should have tried out for Jeopardy! or what …

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06 Aug 2010, 6:21 a.m.

Getting Personal

I went to sleep at a reasonable hour, for once. My mother and I slept in the same bed -- the one in my room, since her bedroom seems to provoke my allergies. She isn't …

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