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13 days left to go, and about one suitcase-worth of extra stuff to squeeze in somewhere. The baggage allowance is two bags of 50lbs each plus the carryon and personal item, and international shipping is insanely expensive for anything larger than small parcels. While harsh evaluation along the lines of whether any ceramic skull candy […]
Filed by shaun at September 30th, 2009 under indifferenthonest
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I’m moving to Japan next month.
Filed by shaun at September 4th, 2009 under indifferenthonest
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Daniel N Robinson, at the end of a lecture about psychology and the witch hunts in early modern Europe:
What is the moral tale that I hope to have conveyed with this story about minds possessed?
First, theories come quite easily to us when we seek to explain the aberrant or eccentric behavior of others. Secondly, we […]
Filed by shaun at September 3rd, 2009 under indifferenthonest
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It’s still here, I guess.
Filed by shaun at July 5th, 2009 under indifferenthonest
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I owe you an apology, Houston. I said some things, some, well, I don’t think they were untrue things, exactly, but very unkind, definitely more than you deserved (after all, it’s not like you’re anywhere near as bad as Dallas). I stand by a lot of what I said–you’ve got problems, especially that sprawl […]
Filed by shaun at December 10th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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Do you know epiphenomenon? I only learned about the concept recently (thanks to Tim Ferris), describing Ptolemy’s epicycle-intensive universe model, and have been thinking about them a lot. It’s nice to have a word for knowing and describing what something looks like without understanding it (a word other than “physics”, I mean). I desperately need […]
Filed by shaun at November 13th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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Several people — several friends — have at some point or other criticized (and I mean this mostly in the (de)constructive sense) my perfectionism, my tendency to constantly expect my surroundings and things (and self) to be the best. They’re not wrong, exactly. That is, there’s definitely something wrong with needing the canned goods in […]
Filed by shaun at October 5th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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I just wrote a song about what’s happening at work right now. The chorus goes like this:
Do you smell it?
It is sausage!
Do you smell it?
Summer sausage!
Filed by shaun at September 30th, 2008 under indifferenthonest
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