December 2008
32 posts
Time to Reboot America - NYTimes.com →
50% of all compliments are out of politeness. 30% is out of not having to deal with an awkward situation. So only 20% is out of genuine appreciation. So if someone says you’re an amazing person, you’re only decent. Hero, a good person. If someone calls you a good guy, cancel the party and continue with your day because you’re no more special than oranges are orange.
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Stork and Owl - TV On the Radio
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Yeah. Really.
me: what happened in math on friday
fob friend: not really
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Obama unveils 21st Century New Deal - Mike Allen... →
—ENERGY: “[W]e will launch a massive effort to make public buildings more energy-efficient. Our government now pays the highest energy bill in the world. We need to change that. We need to upgrade our federal buildings by replacing old heating systems and installing efficient light bulbs. That won’t just save you, the American taxpayer, billions of dollars each year. It will put people back to...
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“I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit...”
– Woody Allen as Isaac Davis in “Manhattan”
“You can pay for school but you can’t buy class”
– HOVA
The About Page
Name: me
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English Major: 1 - Comp Sci: 0
Poon: my compsci partner does all our labs
Poon: today i asked him what it was like to be the king of compsci
Poon: and hes like 'whats it like to be a loser'
Poon: i was like i dunno youre the one whos good at compsci
Poon: HIGHFIVE
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Ahhhhhhhhtml
Didn’t even know about tumblr 24 hours ago, and now it’s my new favorite site. What? What drudgereport.com? Fuck that! I got tumblr! And it’s not the ability to write entries that nobody will read that got me hooked (I had wordpress for that), but the flexibility of the site itself. I don’t know computer language, but tinkering with the html codes got me swimming right back...
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of...”
– Albert Einstein
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China is Dead
China is dead. In less than half a century, the world’s oldest and greatest civilization, along with its invaluable cultures and traditions that has accumulated for more than twenty dynasties and four millennia, has become extinct. What replaces it today is, pardon my French, a disgraceful, pathetic system some would dare call a government, run by people motivated by greed more than anything else...
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Crazy! →
Venice! Under water!