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What I hate about writing is having to negotiate an appropriate tone of voice. I think it’s appealing to write in such a way that someone who knows you personally could read your words and realistically imagine you speaking them out loud, without the delivery having to sound unnatural or forced. Unfortunately, it is in fact natural to write and speak in different tones.
My written voice, for example, is far too austere, in my opinion. I’m really a pretty silly guy. =)
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Nifty and Neat
Here are a few things that fancied my interest this week:
XKCD comic #438. This particular strip illustrates everything that I think is wrong with how people behave on the Web. The comic is very reminiscent of a more general psychological problem that occurs when people assume a pattern of decreased “social integrity” when [...]
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Jay Chou’s Secret
After returning home from an awkward evening out in Collegetown the night before commencement, a few friends and I opted to further delay the coming of the following day’s festivities with a movie. Out of my roommate Chris’s collection of films, I selected Jay Chou’s Secret with the intention of challenging my unjustified doubts [...]
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