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Christmas List 2007

I had a fun time making it, and while I don’t expect any blog reader to get me anything from it, I hope it entertains and erhaps gives you some ideas for your list.

posted at 10:33 am on Nov. 19, 2007
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Lightning Book Review: Trading in Memories

So, I got this book in the mail recently.  For free!!!!

Tangent: Wouldn’t it be funny if all book reviews started like that?  Even the New York Times ones?  Because let’s face it—free things in the mail are pretty cool.

posted at 12:28 am on Nov. 16, 2007
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My Life as an Auto-Reverse Tape Deck

Did you ever own an auto-reverse Walkman?  Or even a double tape deck with auto-reverse, so you could put in two tapes and dub them, or have them loop back and forth, with TWO albums, not just one, so you didn’t have to get up and switch the tape deck.  120 minutes of uninterrupted music, other than that long pause and large clack in the middle. Ah, yes, it was a golden time.

posted at 12:09 am on Nov. 16, 2007
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Getting Blocked on Facebook

Preamble to this blog post’s actual topic: I’m an investigator.  I enjoy figuring out logical puzzles and mysteries.  This is a hobby of mine.

I’m also a natural interviewer, with an interest in other people.  When I meet someone interesting, I often want to know more about them.

posted at 10:00 am on Nov. 1, 2007
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Overheard

“BBFF (Best Bacon Friends Forever)”

...who said it?

“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”

...who said it?

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”

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“Ever have something in your teeth that you cannot stop tonguing?”

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“ . . . the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.”

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