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Science, Fiction
~ Wednesday, July 28 ~
~ Tuesday, July 27 ~
~ Monday, July 26 ~
“ The word processor is a stupid and grossly inefficient tool for preparing text for communication with others. That is the claim I shall defend below.
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Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient
Good stuff.
Later:
I am suggesting, therefore, that should be two distinct “moments” in the production of a printed text using a computer. First one types one’s text and gets its logical structure right, indicating this structure in the text via simple annotations. This is accomplished using a text editor, a piece of software not to be confused with a word processor. (I will explain this distinction more fully below.) Then one “hands over” one’s text to a typesetting program, which in a very short time returns beautifully typeset copy.
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~ Sunday, July 25 ~
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Cam'ron
Killa Cam
Purple Haze
Steve used to sing the backing vocals (Killa Cam Killa Cam Cam Killa Killa Killa Cam, Killa Cam Cam Killa) of this all the time hanging around the house.
During FaceTime last night (weekly party where Steve and I videochat) we decided Steve needs to record himself singing the first 40 seconds of this song for our new morning alarms.
His girlfriend’s not amused.
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“ Sadly, an incident like this is something you never want to happen.
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David Glanzer, Comic-Con Director of Marketing and Public Relations, after a fella got stabbed in the eye with a pen.
Care to rephrase?
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~ Saturday, July 24 ~
~ Friday, July 23 ~
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earl sweatshirt
Pigions (feat. Wolf Haley) — Earl Sweatshirt
GUYS!
Earl Sweatshirt. Now you know and you downloaded it.
I’m extremely into this.
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~ Wednesday, July 21 ~
~ Tuesday, July 20 ~
“ However, “we sell more bones to artists than we do to science,” says Ronald Cauble, who has been running the Bone Room since 1987. “One of our biggest sales was to Damien Hirst,” he of the formaldehyde cows and diamond-encrusted platinum skull. Hirst bought that particular skull elsewhere, but Cauble says he sold the artist a whole pile of other bones. “They haven’t become any art yet, to our knowledge,” Cauble says. “He’s renovating his castle, he’s sawing things in half, he’s doing sharks in formaldehyde. He’s busy.
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An artistic body of work’s bone of contention
This is an interesting article!
Tangentially, if you’re an art-head and you know me IRL ask me about my Damien Hirst rant.
Not a fan.
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~ Sunday, July 18 ~
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R. Kelly
Lil Wayne
T.I.
Rick Ross
Fat Joe
Kells’ verse in this (the first) is a gem. I was caught singing it all through the Harris Teeter earlier today.
And the lineup is nuts.
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~ Saturday, July 17 ~
“ I couldn’t find a published study that empirically compared God-attachment to Jesus-attachment. This is a thesis or doctoral dissertation just waiting to be done. And the outcome of such research should be interesting because, as we’ve noted, while relationship with God can easily become troubled (e.g., if God is seen as “wrathful,” you have negative father associations, or theodicy issues) Christians often report being “closer” to Jesus. I have a few friends who literally can’t stand God, and ignore him completely in their prayer life, and who focus their spiritual life almost solely on Jesus. Basically, lots of people seem to hate God but love Jesus. I think this is a common experience and it is just begging for some empirical attention.
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religion
psychology
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~ Friday, July 16 ~
“ My biggest beef with the New Newsroom, though, is what has happened to headlines. In old newsrooms, headline writing was considered an art. This might seem like a stretch to you, but not to copy editors, who graduated from college with a degree in English literature, did their master’s thesis on intimations of mortality in the early works of Molière, and then spent the next 20 years making sure to change commas to semicolons in the absence of a conjunction.
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news
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Gene Weingarten - Gene Weingarten column mentions Lady Gaga.
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Early this year, the print edition of The Post had this great headline on a story about Conan O’Brien’s decision to quit rather than accept a later time slot: “Better never than late.” Online, it was changed to “Conan O’Brien won’t give up ‘Tonight Show’ time slot to make room for Jay Leno.”
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~ Monday, July 12 ~
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American Apparel: We clothe crazy people
Elaine Stritch would so wear this. And she may be one of the few people extant who could out-Fosse that mannequin.
