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Category: deep thoughts

  • Blog Action Day

    Screw politics. Today is Blog Action Day, when bloggers get together to raise awareness about poverty. I’ll keep this short and sweet. We just had Thanksgiving, so let’s be thankful for what we have, which is a lot. We may get down because we don’t have enough money to buy a new Macbook, or we…

  • Some Advice

    Here’s the thing with advice: you’re always getting it from a biased perspective. Let’s say you want to write a novel. You go out and read the best writing advice that published novelists have to give. They say things like “don’t give up” ; “you’ll get better with practice” ; “it’s all about perseverance” ;…

  • LHC

    I love Google’s title image for today: It’s a nice mix of recognizing an extremely important scientific accomplishment with just a pinch of end-of-the-world paranoia. The truth is that the world has about the same chance of ending today as it did yesterday. But I think the dimwitted people protesting the large hadron collider aren’t…