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I was writing an email to somebody, and I started a paragraph
I tried goosefish once (a continental-shelf version of anglerfish), and I wasn’t that impressed.
and then continued to write
It felt disappointing after holding this terrifying (although dead) thing in my hands. It sort of shattered my childhood notion that the more deadly seeming an [...]

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A few things that I want to put out there:

I accepted a job in Beijing, starting on May 14
I’ll be visiting Chicago for a few days next week (evening of 1st to morning of 6th)
My desire to stay in Shanghai dropped precipitously after giving notice, as I was pulled from the interesting projects.

I think that’s [...]

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I saw this article that explains that he’s going to go to a festival in spite of warnings that people are going to be making a big deal about his appearance. (Pictures in the article, he had a bunch of surgery done on his face and so as he put it, he “ain’t a [...]

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I thought this was pretty funny in, but it might be funnier out.
as far as the amount of spread, my personal opinion is that asshole ibankers and/or brits spread it too much, but that middle america spreads it too little

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Edit: this feels like a big long waaahhh now that I’ve written it. Just a warning.
Here I am, feeling kind of tired on a nice Sunday evening. The temperature is nice outside (just a bit cool for hanging around in shorts), but it started raining in bursts a little while ago so I [...]

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In the last day I’ve read that China is trying to curb the growth of online game addiction from a couple of sources. The BBC and Ars Technica both have articles citing this article from Xinhua.
My reaction to the headline was to wonder how they plan to enforce such policies, and apparently [...]

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I saw a link to this article from the Washington Post about how they got a brilliant musician to play in a metro station for a morning and see if anybody noticed. It’s a fun read.
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
– from “Leisure,” by W.H. [...]

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How do I say “please stop talking to me because your breath is making me nauseous” without being too impolite?

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I saw this on Cool Hunting and I thought that it seemed like a cool concept. I liked the idea of this Kerry Skarbakka guy.
However when I went and looked at the images, something didn’t seem right to me. He states “Heidegger described human existence as a process of perpetual falling, and it [...]

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