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Wow, so far the book Cryptonomicon is freaking...

Feb 8th

Feb 5th

Super excellent dinner

I just made and ate dinner and it was really darn good. Here’s the recipe: The entree: -1/3 lb. ground turkey, 99% lean -Three pearl onions, chopped -dash of cayenne pepper -a little bit of guacamole -some feta cheese, crumbled -baby spinach and arugula mix mix the turkey with the chopped onions and red pepper, separate into 2 slider sized patties, and fry without grease to...

Feb 4th

Parties were catalysts

Well, first of all, I’m glad that I decided not to get that jacket from the movie Drive after a fleeting “treat yo self” moment, because look at this. Yeah—like these guys, I’m not Ryan Gosling. I never will be. I can only be the best-presented version of Steve Moffett. I really should try to be mindful of that—probably most other people should be, too. It...

Feb 4th

Feb 3rd

Well

“The Take” is one of the more upsetting miniseries I’ve ever seen.

Feb 1st

Jan 29th

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Jan 29th

A quick thought

Starship Troopers is one of my favorite movies of all time. I was 13 when it came out, I bought a ticket to “Mad City” and sneaked into a showing. Anyway, I was thinking it over yesterday and I had an idea, and it might explain why I and almost every guy my age loves this movie. Starship Troopers causes an extremely intense cognitive dissonance in adolescent males: it presents the...

Jan 28th

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I've listened to quite a bit of both but it's not...

I love the Beach Boys much more than the Beatles. Sorry everybody.

Jan 25th

This movie made me laugh hard but it also... →

Jan 23rd

Gahh!

I was lucid dreaming, which almost never happens! And right when it was getting super awesome somebody honked a car horn outside!

Jan 22nd

Smoothies

I’ve been making use of my blender to make smoothies. To date, the best (and most diverse) one has been the one with: A banana 2 big strawberries a handful of blueberries a small handful of raspberries a few dollops of (unflavored) Greek yogurt a fistful of baby spinach The spinach didn’t ruin the taste, and it was (very, almost too) sweet. Recommended.

Jan 21st

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Jan 17th

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The Beach Boys

Brian Wilson’s childhood was pretty freaked up! “Murry [Wilson] would repay Brian[ Wilson]’s mild subordinations by removing his artificial eyeball, grabbing a sobbing Brian by the scruff of the neck, and forcing him to peer at the mangled interior of his father’s empty eye socket.”

Jan 15th

Well

I have to make an addendum to my movie list (I’ll put it on next year’s list too, but at present I’d recommend that you see it in the theater if you can): The Artist: It is strange, since this movie made me nostalgic—but not for the 1920s and 30s (I’m not insane). The last time I watched any silent or Fred Astaire movies was in high school. It brought me back to Mr....

Jan 11th

Movies 2011

I might as well do what I did last year and round up the movies that I saw this year. I’ll comment on each with about three sentences or less, unless I really liked it or I decide arbitrarily to break the rule. Here is the list of the movies I saw released in 2011. The list goes by release date, which is pretty close to the order in which I saw them, with a few exceptions. For comparison, this...

Jan 7th

Dear my apartment,

why do you have the heat off on the coldest day of the (beginning of the) year?

Jan 4th

Dec 28th

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Merry Christmas. This movie takes place starting at 10 PM on Christmas Eve night.

Dec 25th

Dec 20th

Finals studying

I’m studying for my last final. Maybe my last final ever. Here’s a study trip you might try, it is working at exactly this moment for me, so, you know, anecdotally, it worked…one time…for one person…ever. At least, I mean. Anyway: get a book or a movie and watch 8 minutes or read 8 paragraphs. Then do the equal amount in your book or study guide (or in my case,...

Dec 18th

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I just heard a kid say "Naah nah nah boo boo."...

Dec 16th

Departmental meetings are a lot of fun sometimes.

Dec 14th

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Dec 8th

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Believe it or not, I think that this is extremely... →

Dec 6th

Here's some true stuff and then some opinions

I don’t know if other people do this but I do it obsessively. Whenever I find out about some new success or new talent in pretty much any area of expertise, I immediately look up their age. If they’re younger than me, I’ve “failed.” The most recent example was breezing through the Wikipedia entry for an author named Zadie Smith and finding out she’d written...

Nov 21st

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Nov 13th

At Neuroscience 2011 I have seen 2 girls already...

Nov 13th

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I've been watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next... →

Oct 24th

Oct 20th

While doing homework I was listening to music

and I hate it when people display song lyrics without context or introduction. Anyway, I was listening to a song by The Silver Jews called “We are Real” and I found this lyric to be pretty fun: “My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors and they help me see, that everything in this room right now is a part of me.” I’m not sure what the deeper meaning...

Oct 17th

Oct 12th

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Oct 9th

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Oct 9th

I think that the Ren Faire has mainstreamed. In...

Oct 9th

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Oct 9th

Oct 3rd

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What the heck.

The previous posts were all submitted last night at midnight. I don’t know why they just posted.

Oct 2nd

Son of a--

Well, I’ve just awakened from a night where I had two dreams, in succession, where in one I fell in love with a completely fictional person (and now I “miss” her) and where in the other I won a race with a seven-figure cash prize, to the cheering of a whole stadium of people. I think I have exhausted my good dream quota for pretty much the year.

Sep 29th

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Beach Trip 2011. I chose the song because the string instrument bowing matched much of the shaky camerawork.

Sep 25th

I saw Drive the other day, and I was slightly let...

Sep 24th