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Category Archives: random
Hashtag please stop
“So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor” This is supposed to be a joke. But sometimes I wonder. WARNING: This post is going to feature my pragmatism in … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, random, The Lady
Tagged every other possible combination of hashtag, hashtag, hashtag hashtag hashtag, hashtag overload, hashtag saturation, i heart the oatmeal, in case you were wondering these tags are ironic because good luck finding this tag anywhere else, my goal in life is to use internet services literally in the opposite way they were intended to be used, quinnwitz ftw
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On a reality show about graduate school admissions
This has to be one of the greatest conversations I’ve seen in quite awhile. Yeah, it’s a blatant copy/paste, but it’s glorious. Apologies to the IRL folks I’m quoting. From Google+: Rob: “There could be a TV show about graduate school … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, random, Real Life
Tagged fair point about graduate school admissions being bs, i suppose the whole point of reality tv is that it isn't real, if you can't laugh at yourself then get out of grad school brah, lol google+, owned, pwn, pwnd, pwned, there were a lot of spelling and grammar corrections in those quotes
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What the Luke Skywalker is the deal here?
Alright folks, I have to put this out there. In recent years, I’ve gotten back into reading the Star Wars Extended Universe books. The ones I read back in middle school were a lot of fun and very entertaining, but … Continue reading
Posted in random, the dark side
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Deliciously horrible idea
As I was collapsing under the strain of bearing my workload the other day, I thought: what can I do to make my workload even heavier? *cue dramatic music* To be completely honest, I was actually thinking about this blog’s … Continue reading
Update for the sake of updating
So. I don’t really have anything specific I wanted to blog about today, but I really need to get into a more regular blogging rhythm here – ideally back up to somewhere around once per week – and blogging does … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Graduate School, Internet, random, Real Life, the fam, The Lady, twitterbot
Tagged always wanted to see vancouver in america's hat, apache, apache mahout, apachecon, apachecon 2011, at least for the moment i really loathe traveling, go go gadget waffleskatez0rz, google 15, gooooooogle, goooooooooogle, gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle, half marathon, injury, liked new orleans but don't want to live there, mahout, map reduce, maybe a food allergy or maybe a bad hotel sheets allergy, mountain view, nerf gun, new orleans, raleigh talus, stargate, talus bone, vancouver
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Randomness
I used to be of the belief that the field of statistics only exists because of the inherent nature of the universe. Put another way, I believed that everything in the known universe was ultimately deterministic, but because we do … Continue reading
Posted in lolcat, random
Tagged deterministic, dice rolling, expectation, how randomness rules our lives, just because you haven't rolled a number doesn't mean it will come up soon, lucky numbers dont do any good, pseudorandom, quantum physics, random, randomness, settlers of catan, stochastic, the drunkards walk, universe
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I would like to go on record…
…with the following statement. AHEM! Though I am a student of the sciences; though I am a pupil of technology and a patron of theory; though I relish immersing myself into the latest and greatest advances and leaps in the … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, random, Technology, The Lady
Tagged !chalkboard, amazingboard, awesomeboard, eraserboard, gotta love those ink-based carcinogens, how many boards could the mongols hoard if the mongol horde got bored, i do need to buy an actual eraser someday instead of using paper towels, ink particulate > chalk dust, lifelineboard, markerboard, the blue marker is my favorite, whiteboard
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What’s in a name?
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet There are some things that we, as human beings, are inherently better at doing than others. We’re masters of survival, brilliant at short-term planning, extremely … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, lolcat, random
Tagged a rose is a rose is a rose, categories, change, cosmos, david wong is a freaking genius, human, i love humanity in all its complexity, labels, logical fallacy, lolcat, monkeh, monkeysphere, philosophy, simplify simplify simplify except in the case of oversimplification, strengths and weaknesses, transience, turtles all the way down, waxing philosophical, we are contradictions
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We’ll beam you up to our ship
I interrupt my regularly scheduled blogging drivel to bring you this discussion on the StarGate: Universe premier that aired this past Friday night. It was, in a single word, awesome. I want to touch on the characters and my thoughts … Continue reading
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Tagged ancients, camille wray, chloe armstrong, colonel young, destiny, dr nicholas rush, eli wallace, faster than light, hyperdrive, hyperspace, jack o'neill, juxtaposition, lieutenant johansen, lieutenant scott, lucian alliance, nuances, sergeant greer, stargate, stargate atlantis, stargate sg-1, stargate universe, superluminal, universe
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Theatre of Consciousness 