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- @petersagal “Should’ve seen the other guy.” 13 hours ago
- Somebody somewhere knew what I needed this morning: http://t.co/ubFSnXKXuU 21 hours ago
- Sleep + this week = NaN 1 day ago
- @__MeganJohnston @write2run Oh man, run streak, I forgot all about that! Can I join too? :) 1 day ago
- @write2run I just did the math for the splits given a goal sub-20 5K. And oddly, it's right in line with where I was for Pittsburgh. 1 day ago
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Category Archives: Internet
My 40-day Facebook reprieve
For the entirety of Lent this year (February 13 – March 30), not once did I log into Facebook. Only once did I post on Twitter, when I was having some Hadoop issues. Totally cold turkey. And you know what? It … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, lolcat, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged facebook, i acknowledge my experience may not be typical, i also acknowledge that facebook sucks, if you do it right lenten resolutions can be absofreakinglutely awesome, lent, moar liek antisocial networking am i rite, or you could be lazy and give up giving things up, poke wars are pretty awesome, social networking
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Secession Petitions
If you follow the site We the People, or any online news outlets, you’ve probably noticed the latest flurry of petitions from states across the Union. They all share a common theme: Peacefully grant the State of [STATE] to withdraw … Continue reading
It’s like LJ on WordPress
Taking a cue from Megan (and because I’m still in publish-my-research-yesterday mode), I’m boring you all with more details about my running experiences with a questionnaire that delves deeply into the personal and leaves no metaphorical stone unturned…or something. 1. Best … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Internet, Running, The Lady
Tagged canadia, goals, hooray injuries, i run so i can eat, personal records are made to be broken, philly marathon, running
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Tabs or spaces?
I know this debate is old as dirt, but it was resurrected on my Google+ stream not too long ago, so I wanted to poll the intertubes and see what it, the Font of Knowlej, thought. The Debate It’s pretty … Continue reading
Online services I don’t understand
When it comes to “social revolution”, I have to admit I’m pretty skeptical. Yes, I’ve jumped on the bandwagon of more than one social network (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn), have used them extensively, and still continue to do so. But … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Internet, lolcat, Real Life
Tagged 4square, change.org, facebook, google, instagram, lolcats, social networks, social networks as theoretical constructs are extremely interesting, social networks in practice are incredibly boring, the social revolution is kind of nauseating, tumblr, we the people, web services, what's the point
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The Internets are a Strange Place
I love reading Ars Technica. Their writing is exceptional and among the more unbiased. Granted, their specialty is technology and science-related material; they only report on politics and current events as it overlaps with the former categories. Their staff does … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Internet, Real Life, the dark side
Tagged also a lot of butthurt on the carreon end, bearlove good cancer bad, carreon, carreon's wife sounds like a real character, charles carreon, incredibly stupid and frivolous lawsuits, inman, matthew inman, theoatmeal, welcome to the internets
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Matplotlib + Lion = Matplionlib?
In a week marred by endless work, I wanted to take a moment to recognize a small triumph. I spent several hours working on this over the last few days–and many, many hours spread out over the months before it–and … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Internet, lolcat, Programming, Technology, Tutorial
Tagged apple, apple likes to include its own version of just about everything which of course is missing something crucial when it comes time to actually use it, homebrew, i'm reasonably sure this works for the most part the majority of the time probably, macports, matplotlib, numpy, or so many hours that i could have spent sleeping, os x 10.7, os x lion, python, scipy, so many hours that i could have spent actually accomplishing something
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Hadoop [actually, Ubuntu] Headache
My desktop, Ronon, is a beast (yes, its namesake is exactly what you think it is): twin Radeon 4890 video cards, terabytes of hard drive space (will eventually be adding an SSD to the mix; that’s the next major upgrade), 18GB of … Continue reading
