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I like walking around, but Shanghai, at least where I was walking today, isn’t really suited to walking. Of cities I’ve enjoyed walking around before, I’d definitely put Boston and New York toward the top. I didn’t spend enough time in DC to walk around much, but it seemed more suited to a [...]

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I took a walk today. I tried to walk from my apartment to near where I work, but I didn’t succeed. I only got as far as the Maglev station at which point I got frustrated by walking along highways and decided not to try and cross any more in getting to my [...]

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I wonder if I will ever listen to Sufjan Stevens‘ Illinois (wikipedia, metacritic) album without feeling incredibly nostalgic.
Ah, 2005.
It was a good year.
(what the hell, nostalgic for two years ago, at my age?)

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hmm…

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I wasn’t really watching, just sitting in the room while somebody else was. I was not terribly impressed by what I did see.
One quote that I caught:
a: Do you ever want to go back?b: To Oxford? I’m not not clever enough. I’m not anything enough, really.

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The last couple days it has been warm and more polluted than usual. Perhaps there is something affecting the people, maybe it’s just warm weather and sun, Id on’t know, but on the way into work this morning, in the last leg on the shuttle from the subway to the office, I saw some [...]

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Ok so maybe this makes me a huge nerd or something but part of me wants to be back in a country with excellent internet access come Fall 2007 (rumored) just for this.
Team Fortress is arguably the game that got me hooked on computer games way back when it was for Quakeworld, and these trailers [...]

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I haven’t been flying in the US lately, but I didn’t leave so early as to have missed the chance to be told to throw away my deoderant, toothpaste and shampoo on account of them being improperly packaged in plastic bags in small containers or whatever the official regulations are. I actually still don’t [...]

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The traditions that seem to govern polite displays of gratitude strike me as incredibly inefficient and more simply, stupid. I’m pretty sure I’ve complained about gift giving before, and I’m going to do it again.
I can understand that in the case of gifts that some portion of the value of the gift [...]

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I found one that gave me a nice printable pdf.
So there you have it.

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