I, Wikipedian (finale)

December 1, 2009

Yesterday, I was thinking about how everything I post here (or on facebook or twitter or …) has a life of its own. This site is durable in a way that only digital things can be durable: infinite copies, nearly no value, ephemeral yet eternal. Not everything I’ve done online is here or places like [...]

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In the future, we’ll all be naked.

November 30, 2009

Swing, batter batter batter….swing, batter. Grady Sizemore took photos of himself in nearly naked states of undress, sent them to his girlfriend and then they were “leaked” to the internet… …and nobody cared. (Corrected: …and nobody cared except for Grady Sizemore groupies.) In one entire day, not a single “Sizemore” related joke was told in [...]

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Unexpected F/M/K Responses

November 23, 2009

So after my post about F/M/K I played a few games with friends. The problem: I didn’t know my friends as well as I thought because their replies were…um… Example one: Me: “OK, F/M/K: Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Idi Amin” Not-Me: “Can I kill them all?” Me: “I changed my mind. We aren’t playing this. Let’s [...]

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F/M/K – better than budgeting

November 2, 2009

I found an old chat log that was created a few years ago. It was called Budgeting IM – Key Budget Factors and had several hundred lines regarding serious business matters. It was hiding this wonderful diversion, nestled between discussion of depreciation, appropriate estimating procedures, and other gripping material. The lesson: Budgeting discussion encourages you [...]

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Courtesy and Cosmopolitanism

September 17, 2009

My friend Jack linked to an article titled Our National Altamont is Just a Shot Away. It’s an short article that mourns the fact that civility and courtesy are in short supply. What happened to courtesy? The article gives many examples of courtesy-gone-missing. The analogy between the Stone’s concert at Altamont and current public discourse [...]

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Mysterious Artifacts

September 16, 2009

What a year makes It’s been a strange 12 months: Just over a year ago, a friend died at age 45 from leukemia. About eight months ago, my last uncle died. Two friends needed surgery, one of which was a heart transplant. I herniated a disc so badly that I had to have my vertebrae [...]

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Super-frog Saves Tokyo

June 1, 2009

I’ve been on a Murakami kick. I just read after the quake his collection of short stories. I read after dark, too. This passage from the short story “Super-frog Saves Tokyo” in the collection after the quake keeps coming back to me: “That’s fine, Mr. Katagiri. It’s better that you don’t remember. The whole terrible [...]

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Six Seconds

March 21, 2009

I’ve been spending more time reading and listening to music. When I get online, my time is usually focused on researching the things I’m reading/hearing. I stumbled across this video about “The World’s Most Important 6-Second Drum Loop.” It’s a very simple piece. I thought it was fascinating. Get a drink. Sit down. Relax. And [...]

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