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This will be my last post for a while. I truly hate what my blog looks like right now, so I can barely stand to be its primary, contributing author. In my next re-design of simonlife, I hope to come up with something more personalized and simple.
Lately, I’ve been splitting my time among tennis, bboying, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Every year as an undergraduate I remembered to recognize Mother’s Day by at least affording the necessary phone call. It would only make sense then that the year I would forget would be my year as a masters student, a time when one would expect me to be in my highest degree of maturity and [...]