January 2011
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The Sweetener to End All Sweetness
So I’m always on the lookout for Superfoods. I really like the idea of incorporating a few little things into my diet that will negate the drinking, erratic sleep patterns, and excessive consumption of caffeine, Sour Patch Kids, and fried foods. And lemme just tell you, Black Strap Molasses is about the awesomest thing since sliced bread. Wait, this is way awesomer, and older, than sliced...
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Really Important and Not Trivial Things I Want to...
A really sweet sound system in my shower (with optional recording device).
Cars that drive themselves.
Home self-tanning arches. You walk through the arch after you shower, voilà TAN!
Wireless everything. EVERYTHING. No outlets, no cords, no cables, no wires.
Some way of traveling great distances than doesn’t involve planes.
A hot alien.
Lip gloss that looks really shiny but...
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$t#ff My Dad Says
I’m 30. I live with my dad right now. He is a weird guy. Today began with a lecture on the pressures of love in the modern age. He thinks arranged marriages and ones that are mostly practical are the best bet, though he doesn’t discount the importance of Dionysian attraction. He feels young people today are experiencing unprecedented pressure, as we look for the ONE person who is...
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Top 8 Things You Should Not be Advertising If We...
So I’m dating. It’s the kind of dating that starts on a website where there are a whole bunch of other people who are dating and we’re all looking for each other. Most of the time, it’s rewarding. Sometimes, it drives me a little nuts.
Despite having written a treatise circa 2005 entitled “Online Dating is For Broken People,” and being very wary of its...
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Quora: Dummies Need Not Apply
Last night I joined Quora, which bills itself as “a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it,” or as a savvy friend put it, “It’s like Facebook questions, except it works.” It’s not brand new (launched publicly in June 2010), and has obviously already been reviewed, but I’ll offer a...
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Swing and a Miss...
Well let’s hope that as I continue to use you,
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these suggestions will improve. Because this list gave me something of a mini heart attack. A sitting-at-home, up-too-late, playing-with-new-websites-for-too-long, i-need-to-see-actual-people sort of heart attack. And when you get annoyed at what a bot/algorithm “thinks” of you, you know it’s probably time to hunker...
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This is Water
An essay that is both incredibly fitting for New Year’s and constantly applicable.
(If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I’d advise you to go ahead, because I’m sure going to. In fact I’m gonna [mumbles while pulling up his gown and taking out a handkerchief from his pocket].) Greetings [“parents”?] and congratulations to Kenyon’s graduating...
