Some of the attention I used to put towards this blog I think has been diverted recently by those more micro- oriented sites Twitter and Tumblr (@rstadler and Tweedhouse respectively). That said, far and away most of my idle internet cycles have been ploughed into Quora lately (my profile being here).
Entries from June 2010
Elsewhere on the internet…
June 30th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: links out · personal crap
Celtics!!
June 15th, 2010 · No Comments
I was watching (well, not really watching so much as looking at the gamecast while simultaneously listening to an audio stream, video streams were just too crappy) for the NBA finals today and while looking for more commentary found some of these images which I was quite amused by. Most people in the office seem [...]
Tags: personal crap · photos
USA! USA! (or, how much I am already enjoying the World Cup)
June 14th, 2010 · No Comments
I’m finally beginning to feel recovered from the havok being unleashed upon my sleep schedule by the World Cup. Games at 2:30 AM are especially difficult for me to watch because I don’t like staying awake straight through to 4:30 in the morning, but I also can’t really bring myself to go to sleep early [...]
Tags: china · links out · personal crap
Subvocalization and reading speed
June 10th, 2010 · No Comments
I’ve been talking with a couple friends of mine about reading speed a lot. My friend Ani has been working on this side project, readfa.st (I have no idea if it’s supposed to be readfa.st or read fast or Read Fast or readfast or what, I’m sure he/they will figure it out eventually). As such [...]
Tags: books · china · links out
Post-America
June 4th, 2010 · No Comments
On my last trip to NY from Beijing I met a guy in the airport headed to Boston. We chatted a bit in the line waiting to check in, and then later on the plane we exchanged contact info. I’ve been going back and forth with him on emails and some of the questions he’s [...]
Tags: china · personal crap