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I’m not really sure what to make of this: The Glass Slipper Project.
It seems like it’s great that they’re going out and helping disadvantaged kids to be able to have outrageously expensive prom dresses, and given that they’re apparently doing it by soliciting donations of used dresses it seems like this is a [...]

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This weekend I was supposed to get a lot of things done, but I’ve been putting them off because I am reluctant to actually follow through with the plans I made. I don’t know if it’s really out of being craven, or more that I’m just being kind of selfish and using other people [...]

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I did a lot of things today, that for whatever reason, as I sit here and kill about thirty minutes waiting for the next woot to be put up, are coming to mind. I got trapped in an elevator, that one sort of sticks out. I fessed to having created a totally fictional [...]

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Oh snap Google has entered the IM fray with Google Talk. It’s using the Jabber protocol which is pretty cool. They’ve got their own client if you’re on windows, and if you are ok with a slight functionality hit, you can use it with gaim or something. Of course, if you’re like [...]

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I find the phrase ‚Äúmandatory fun‚Äù to be most amusing.  Fun, to me, seems like the kind of thing that it would be rather difficult to demand.  The very act of declaring fun mandatory, in fact, seems like it would make whatever activity that is being performed, less fun because of the pressure to be having fun, [...]

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So somebody asked me wherefore art I pantsfarm… well, actually, not so much, but I did get asked where the term came from.
One answer is like this: I was in China last Summer, and while I spent a Summer there, I saw a lot of things. One thing that really stuck [...]

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I think it kind of amusing that I have gone from finding email addresses of people for one job, to finding email addresses for my current job. I suspect I could do it much faster if I just called up the phone numbers I’m so often given along with a name and company to [...]

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“Modern technology makes long-distance relationships viable in ways previous generations can only envy. And yet having the ability to communicate constantly leads to the expectation of constant communication.“
edit: haha better get me a jerk-o-meter.

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Some passages from “South of the Border, West of the Sun” by Haruki Murakami.
This one is from the end of Chapter Four.
“College transported me to a new town, where I tried, one more time, to reinvent myself. Becoming someone new, I could correct the errors of my past. At first I was optimistic: [...]

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When I was in China, I didn’t tip anybody for anything. It’s just not how it’s done. Apparently, there isn’t really much in the way of tipping, per se, for restaurant service in Europe these days, in that there’s just a fixed percentage tacked on to the meal, called the service charge or [...]

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