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 Tagged as 'links out'
Elsewhere on the internet…
June 30th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: links out · personal crap
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
similar notes
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments
I was listening to “First Sight” by These United States yesterday and it occurred to me that it sounded an awful lot like Depeche Mode’s “Just Can’t Get Enough”. I don’t mean that the songs sound exactly the same, but only that maybe the same sequences of notes are used. The whole thing reminded me [...]
Counterintuitive in some ways if not others
September 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
In a modest attempt to revive discussion over on Route 2(A) I just posted a quick response to some articles I was reading today linking alcohol consumption to doing more exercise.
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