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Calendar of mindless drivel
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Category Archives: Articles
For the love of all things good, get vaccinated
Read any news outlet–measles, a disease declared in 2000 to have been eradicated in the United States, has now infected nearly 100 people across at least a dozen states with no sign of slowing down just yet. The single glimmer … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Real Life
Tagged antivax, denialism, fallacies, flu, for the love of all things good get vaccinated, get vaccinated, get vaccinated dammit, hate the messenger but get vaccinated, i have yet to read a blaze article that made any sense, influenza, libertarians, risk assessment, science based medicine, slippery slope fallacy, the blaze, tone police, vaccines
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No one will notice if the government shuts down
On Oct 1, Google put out a Doodle commemorating the 123rd anniversary of Yosemite National Park (at least in the US), a somewhat ironic gesture considering as of that morning, all national parks were closed and would remain so for a … Continue reading
Pope Francis I: Reformer or Maintainer?
Habemus Papam! Yeah, I’m a few (several) weeks late on the announcement. But it’s still momentous for two immediate reasons: First pope from Latin America. First Jesuit pope. As with the election of every new pope (though there have only … Continue reading
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
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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Childhood Experiences
Over the last few days I’d been working on a post that described in disgusting detail the issues I’ve been having with the kernel regression method I used to get an idea of how my average running pace has improved … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Google, Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Real Life
Tagged but i suppose the opinion section isn't known for its research, camp counselor, camps, co-op, college, emotional pleas are great but facts are even better, google, high school, IBM, if all you're doing at an internship is fetching coffee GET A NEW INTERNSHIP, internships, this guy didn't do a whole lot of research, yeah yeah i know caring about facebook = inherent fail
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Hot-button topics
It seems every topic these days that has implications beyond my meager, individual existence has become warped by the political machine, and any stand one takes in the debate gets them hero status with some, Public Enemy Number One with … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Blogging, Internet, lolcat, Politics, Real Life, the dark side
Tagged arguing really isnt fun, emotion, hot button topics, la dee da, liberals and conservatives, logic, political debates isnt cool you know what is cool lolcats, rage quit, reason, talk radio, technology and science are way more fun to blog about, us vs them doesnt exist
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Reforming the PhD process
Education has been one of the hot topics of late (though not as hot as it should be, frankly…but that’s another story), and today Slashdot posted this article in Nature News written by a professor at Columbia. In it, he … Continue reading
In case you were wondering where I’ve been
…for those who stalk me… In case you’ve been living under a Microsoft rock, it was recently made public that certain GPS-enabled Apple devices have been tracking your location since last summer. As Exhibit A (after disabling the sync encryption), … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Blogging, Hardware, Internet, lolcat, Technology
Tagged apple, applulz, gps, iphone, load you piece of crap, location, lolcat, people literally know what you did last summer, travel
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CPU ubiquity
There was this fantastic poll on Slashdot recently (ok, most of their polls are awesome) that really makes you consider just how ubiquitous computers have become, and to what phenomenal degree we take them for granted. In honor of this … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Hardware, Internet, lolcat, Polls, Real Life, Technology
Tagged apparently ubiquitous has become colloquial, computers, cpu, do the rock band components have processors in them too, im almost positive hard drives have cpus in them, it aint hardcore unless its hexacore, lolcat, megagigabyte son, since i dont own the washer or dryer im not counting those, terrorize the processation, ubiquity, video cards have gpus so im not sure if that single letter difference matters
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Theatre of Consciousness 