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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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve given up. I’ve tried running as a means of exercise for about four years now (albeit very irregularly), but it just doesn’t do it for me. It’s so boring. Someone who runs regularly needs to explain to me how they keep from getting bored while making their rounds, because so far, [...]
Not very many of my friends blog. Through Google Reader, I’m subscribed to more than seventy feeds. Between fifty and sixty of those feeds are served by blogs, and of those, there are only about five blogs that belong to people I know personally. And only one of those five belongs to [...]
In my continuing campaign to convince everyone that California reigns supreme above all other states in this fine union (and that Southern California in particular ought to be everyone’s eventual place of residence), I pondered a few things that seem to benefit from substantially longer lives in The Golden State due primarily to differences in [...]
When Facebook was basically past its infancy but not quite in its “prime”, I took advantage like everyone else and spent some time searching for groups that sounded catchy and proudly exclusive — groups like I Remember When the Facebook Was Only For Smart Schools or I Went To a Public School… Bitch, even though [...]
I can’t evaluate this movie like I would any other Bond movie. It deviates too much from the Bond archetype for me to place a premium on the classic elements (gadgets, etc.). Don’t get me wrong; I don’t mean to chastise the film in any way. I just think it would be [...]
Honestly, I can’t say I’m all that surprised by the magnitude of this mass revolt that has rallied against Facebook’s new News Feed feature. There has always been an affected dislike for Facebook, even when most users themselves are so suspiciously fond of keeping an updated profile, and at least initially, I think it [...]
Figure skating is not a sport. I mean that honestly. Really. It isn’t. It’s a great show of human accomplishment, but it’s not a sport. Oh sure, it might have been one at one point, but that classification dissolved once they imposed a few questionable requisites to the pastime, namely: costumes, music, and smiling.