Mar 3, 7:53pm  | 
Now that Google+ is going away, I've staged a backup of all my posts over at my lifestream. | 
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Feb 2, 9:22pm  | 
I'll put an archive of my Google+ posts over here:... | 
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Jan 29 2018, 8:48am  | 
Brown-Eyed Girl originally shared this post. | 
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Apr 9 2016, 10:25am  | 
There was a botched(?) suicide attempt by the park near my house. | 
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Mar 1 2016, 10:39am  | 
I never intentionally set foot on the path to becoming a graybeard. | 
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Feb 21 2016, 9:40pm  | 
One of my quirks? I handcraft the GET parameters for the local library's URLs to keep tabs on when new volumes of my favorite trade paperbacks come in... | 
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Nov 15 2015, 3:51pm  | 
If you encrypt a 7z archive with 7z's encryption, attackers can still navigate the hierarchy of the archive, it's only the compressed files within the hierarchy... | 
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Sep 27 2015, 12:31pm  | 
One of the things that made my Dead Man's Switch trigger is that it stopped knowing what I listen to. | 
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Sep 22 2015, 10:31pm  | 
For her birthday, Lillian took the family on a balloon ride with + Napa Valley Aloft Balloon Rides . | 
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Sep 7 2015, 8:36pm  | 
This is what happens when code you wrote five years ago wakes up now and tries to interact with the new world. | 
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Sep 5 2015, 10:48am  | 
Oh, Damn it. This is the reason not to update software. | 
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Aug 31 2015, 9:01pm  | 
A while back, I read Feynman by Jim Ottaviani because Donald Knuth mentioned it on his Retirement page. | 
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Aug 22 2015, 9:51am  | 
Is it OK to correct spelling when the article is about higher education?... | 
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Aug 21 2015, 11:48am  | 
A Shakespeare command-line joke. | 
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Aug 21 2015, 2:14am  | 
My thoughts on the Ashley Madison hack?... | 
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Aug 11 2015, 9:57am  | 
Google motto 2004: Don't be evil | 
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Aug 7 2015, 3:08pm  | 
In the past 16 years, Jon Stewart has reshaped both comedy and journalism around the world. | 
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Jun 21 2015, 5:02pm  | 
I wrote a post where I encounter a real-world example of the saying, "If you're not the customer, you're the product." (I also liked saying, FollowMee along Ope... | 
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Jun 10 2015, 11:57am  | 
The sample code I share in  https://david.dlma.com/blog/ways-to-break-a-dollar-into-change is all in #python . | 
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Jun 7 2015, 3:31pm  | 
Here's an interview question that I've wanted to ask, but almost never decide to. | 
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Jun 6 2015, 2:58pm  | 
Now that YouTube API v2 has ended, I want to memorialize the old feed URLs I used for my lifestream and their replacements. | 
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May 12 2015, 4:05pm  | 
Raymond Hettinger suggests two ways to computer a dot product in  https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/597592757037740032 . | 
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Apr 19 2015, 10:20pm  | 
This is for @nylabs on Twitter, regarding this thread:... | 
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Apr 11 2015, 11:50am  | 
Since my old "New Tab" extension for Chrome was calling out to doubleclick.net , I decided to just use my own. | 
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Mar 27 2015, 10:34pm  | 
You guys! I just noticed that the Python language's official site, python.org , emits the 'X-Clacks-Overhead "GNU Terry Pratchett"' header... | 
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Mar 25 2015, 10:25am  | 
I've been trying out #Sublime Text 3. | 
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Mar 15 2015, 10:26am  | 
It's interesting that vim has "open selected filename" built in, but Sublime Text require an addin to get that working. | 
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Mar 12 2015, 10:51pm  | 
Now that Google's killing another service I've used, Google Code, I took a screenshot of the two projects I had hosted here from around 2007. | 
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Feb 11 2015, 9:06pm  | 
Reasons to get up in the morning: | 
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Feb 7 2015, 10:34pm  | 
Here's a story about my one-changed-word GitHub fork. | 
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Jan 28 2015, 8:52am  | 
James Infhofe is chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. | 
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Jan 7 2015, 5:30pm  | 
Sometimes I doodle on the back of my page-a-day calendar pages. | 
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Dec 31 2014, 5:20pm  | 
As we say goodbye to 2014, I'm pouring one out for 1920x1200 resolution monitors. | 
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Dec 6 2014, 12:00pm  | 
The cute-but-terrifying Australian Pygmy Cheessum! | 
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Nov 22 2014, 10:39am  | 
One of the most useful Chrome extensions I've ever used. | 
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Nov 17 2014, 7:37pm  | 
What amazing thing can we make next? | 
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Nov 14 2014, 9:11am  | 
I'm pretty excited to go home and have an free IDE-off between JetBrains PyCharm and Microsoft's Visual Studio Community Edition 2013 for #Python development. | 
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Nov 8 2014, 11:47pm  | 
I wrote about why dads work on jalopies. | 
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Oct 5 2014, 11:34pm  | 
Half an hour into Only Lovers Left Alive, there's a scene where Eve packs a suitcase for a trip. | 
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Jul 12 2014, 10:15am  | 
I'm on the cusp of being "that guy"* when it comes a Google use case scenario. | 
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May 21 2014, 2:14pm  | 
Daniel Suarez originally shared this post. | 
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May 11 2014, 10:30am  | 
Python implements common integer values as singletons. | 
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May 8 2014, 4:42pm  | 
#TeachTheControversy   Ross Dmochowski originally shared this post. | 
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Mar 11 2014, 5:37pm  | 
#geekhumor   Tom Eigelsbach originally shared this post. | 
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Mar 4 2014, 10:11am  | 
Spotted in Mountain View: notorious space gangster Mars Capone. | 
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Feb 26 2014, 7:40am  | 
This is an animation of DNA replication by DNA polymerase and accurately shows the function of all its subunits. | 
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Jan 25 2014, 9:28pm  | 
I've been goofing around in Python for a long time. | 
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Jan 24 2014, 10:08am  | 
Here's an alternate version of my avatar for my friends and colleagues in Canada. dlma.com/canadian_avatar.gif | 
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Jan 23 2014, 9:45am  | 
National Handwriting Day occurs during #goblinweek . | 
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Jan 2 2014, 3:21pm  | 
Today I've been all wowow waka wowow waka waka waka. | 
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Jan 2 2014, 9:59am  | 
Soon, my kids will be old enough for me to forbid them from listening to Rage Against the Machine. | 
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Dec 5 2013, 12:00pm  | 
Bi-Directional Gear Richard Wilson originally shared this post. | 
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Nov 27 2013, 11:12am  | 
I don't know what it's going to be, but I know one of my next projects is going to be named KINAB. | 
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Nov 14 2013, 3:35pm  | 
We just updated our Transparency Report, showing how many requests Google gets for information about its users. | 
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Nov 5 2013, 4:46pm  | 
I watched Indie Game: The Movie a while ago... | 
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Oct 30 2013, 9:13pm  | 
I've claimed my custom URL for Google+. | 
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Oct 18 2013, 8:52am  | 
Don't worry, we're all on the same page:... | 
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Oct 17 2013, 12:52am  | 
Microsoft's own "Create a System Image" feature doesn't work on my 3TB external Seagate drive, while Acronis/Seagate's DiscWizard does work , as does good 'ol r... | 
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Oct 15 2013, 2:32pm  | 
A PSA, since it appears to be badly needed recently. | 
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Oct 4 2013, 10:31am  | 
Without fail, I quote this magical incantation every time I have to code review a shell script: | 
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Sep 26 2013, 1:39pm  | 
I'm getting a fake tooth! I've been doing Google searches for "piezoelectric LED tooth" (with optical fibre routed to eyes), "piezoelectric beacon/transmission ... | 
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Aug 20 2013, 11:40am  | 
Command-line interfaces made easy. | 
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Aug 12 2013, 9:41am  | 
Paul Pluzhnikov originally shared this post. | 
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Aug 10 2013, 12:07pm  | 
There was a teachable moment between my son and me this morning. | 
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Aug 9 2013, 10:21am  | 
We've just released IPython 1.0 officially!!! | 
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Aug 8 2013, 12:05pm  | 
This is one of the things that makes Kaleidescape systems awesome:... | 
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Jul 23 2013, 5:22pm  | 
My Dead Man's Switch ( http://betterfool.com/ ) almost got broken by Twitter by another one of their API changes last month. | 
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Jul 20 2013, 6:06am  | 
You asked, we answered. Here's how you can roll your own Raspberry Pi server cluster.  NVIDIA originally shared this post... | 
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Jul 10 2013, 2:03pm  | 
The Humble eBook Bundle 2 just took my money. | 
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Jul 9 2013, 2:20pm  | 
Not only is this a nice analysis on why people sometimes avoid recursion in Python vs. | 
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Jun 30 2013, 6:31pm  | 
Another Bike Ride with the Kids | 
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Jun 30 2013, 3:59pm  | 
+ Alan Henry   + Lifehacker  Nice effort with the "Five Best Cloud Storage Providers" article. | 
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Jun 27 2013, 8:36pm  | 
I just gave my 10yo son his first Python challenge:... | 
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Jun 25 2013, 10:07am  | 
I like that my Google+ profile has an Easter Egg in it. | 
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Jun 17 2013, 4:06pm  | 
Digg keeps saying the right things with regard to their upcoming Reader. | 
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Jun 16 2013, 11:07pm  | 
http://vimeo.com/66753575 It's Not About the Nail | 
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Jun 16 2013, 10:57pm  | 
Jake VanderPlas recently assessed the improvements made by Numba, and it looks very impressive. | 
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Jun 15 2013, 7:33pm  | 
Giggles | 
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Jun 13 2013, 9:56am  | 
I might be a sort of "comforting geek." I've tried to get people who aren't interested in what I write about to unsubscribe (at other venues). | 
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Jun 8 2013, 1:46am  | 
I share some thoughts on choosing a solution for backing up to the cloud here:  https://david.dlma.com/blog/choosing-a-cloud-backup-solution Choosing a Cloud-bas... | 
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May 25 2013, 9:55pm  | 
This little thing (my Raspberry Pi) has already saved the day on more than one occasion. | 
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May 3 2013, 11:06am  | 
try: | 
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Apr 3 2013, 3:02pm  | 
Note to self: Python's chained assignment is evaluated from left to right, not right-to-left as C++ does it... | 
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Apr 2 2013, 9:04pm  | 
Ryan Holiday points out that we're losing services that made finding and consuming information on the web easier in favor of a web focused on ad impressions and... | 
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Mar 29 2013, 11:18pm  | 
I've chosen my replacement for Google Reader. | 
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Mar 20 2013, 7:35am  | 
I woke up this morning to Pythonistas' favorite AC/DC song, "Dirty Deeds _Cheap_ ." | 
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Mar 15 2013, 9:51pm  | 
Had this conversation with my 10yo son:... | 
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Mar 13 2013, 1:12pm  | 
I picked up my badge for PyCon 2013, and + Guido van Rossum  was standing just outside the registration area chatting with fellow attendees and muckety-mucks. | 
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Feb 24 2013, 2:51pm  | 
It was melodramatic and cornball in a few areas, but otherwise, I really liked Wu Dang.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Dang_(film) I thought that Yang Mi made... | 
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Feb 24 2013, 11:21am  | 
Neal Stephenson's book Anathem needs an easy-to-access-on-mobile-devices glossary. | 
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Feb 12 2013, 3:51pm  | 
Professor Krugman nails it again: | 
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Feb 10 2013, 7:50pm  | 
If you live in the orange areas, you are in what the DHS now considers a "Fourth Amendment Exclusion Zone"...meaning that it's fine for the DHS to stop anyone w... | 
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Feb 10 2013, 5:05pm  | 
I really enjoyed Safety Not Guaranteed. | 
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Jan 19 2013, 3:34pm  | 
So, it's Saturday afternoon, the kids are away playing with friends, the wife is sleeping in the next room for the night shift. | 
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Jan 10 2013, 10:35pm  | 
I wrote about a productivity tip that I gleaned from a comic book back in 2009. | 
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Jan 2 2013, 10:36am  | 
Now that all the GIF patents have expired and Unisys's extreme patent enforcement is over, the file format is so common that it's become the Oxford Dictionaries... | 
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Jan 1 2013, 11:08pm  | 
Herb Sutter talks about the differences between C++98's const and mutable, and C++11's const and mutable. | 
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Jan 1 2013, 12:01pm  | 
Happy Pythonic New Year! (Animation by + Yuko Honda  -- you have to click on the link to see it)... | 
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Dec 25 2012, 9:59am  | 
My haul from Christmas, very appropriate for me. | 
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Dec 23 2012, 9:22pm  | 
In case you've forgotten what a geek I can be, this year I've decided to give myself (some proficiency in) the editor Vim. | 
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Dec 22 2012, 1:45am  | 
You know something that sucks?... | 
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Dec 18 2012, 10:24am  | 
The World's Scariest Pathway - El Caminito Del Rey | 
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Dec 13 2012, 2:10am  | 
So, that's where GLaDOS went.  Pacific Rim Official Trailer | 
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Dec 12 2012, 9:54am  | 
I went to the Microsoft store in Valley Fair to check out the Surface. | 
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Dec 12 2012, 12:11am  | 
So I was updating my "Configure new computers" instruction page, and I realized that when you have to compile your text editor from source code to make it work ... | 
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Dec 2 2012, 2:35pm  | 
My wife was shopping for boots online. | 
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Nov 27 2012, 9:38pm  | 
This looks to be really good! Chasing Ice OFFICIAL TRAILER | 
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Nov 24 2012, 7:43pm  | 
I love that Jake Vanderplas wanted to experiment with quaternions in Python, and decided that one of his first projects would be to make a fully functional Rubi... | 
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Nov 23 2012, 7:32pm  | 
You know what a lot of bloggers forget to do when they upgrade or move their blogs?... | 
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Nov 20 2012, 4:59pm  | 
The fastest way to cut a cake it with dental floss. | 
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Nov 20 2012, 1:00pm  | 
I enjoy reading the graphic novel series, "Chew."  I just borrowed the 5th volume from the library. | 
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Nov 14 2012, 8:11pm  | 
The Misfit Shine really appeals to the minimalist in me. | 
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Nov 14 2012, 10:35am  | 
This is one of the reasons I re-played Half-Life and Half-Life 2 and let my son participate. | 
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Nov 11 2012, 6:12pm  | 
This article by Keith Houston of Shady Characters fame brings out the American Psycho in me. | 
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Nov 10 2012, 9:05am  | 
A sort educational documentary from the National Film Board of Canada, "Spiders on Drugs." Spiders On Drugs | 
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Nov 6 2012, 5:26pm  | 
Supposedly a video of a 2012 voting machine altering a vote. | 
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Nov 6 2012, 2:23pm  | 
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Nov 1 2012, 12:07pm  | 
This'd make for a fun desktop screen. | 
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Oct 31 2012, 11:13am  | 
I love it when different areas of my life connect. | 
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Oct 24 2012, 5:34pm  | 
I wonder if the engineering team has read + Daniel Suarez 's Kill Decision?... | 
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Oct 20 2012, 9:47am  | 
Reddit's rtheone gave a great answer to the question, "I want to learn something new. | 
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Oct 20 2012, 9:47am  | 
Reddit's rtheone gave a great answer to the question, "I want to learn something new. | 
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Oct 19 2012, 10:32am  | 
Jake Vanderplas shares an awesome and easy way to make XKCD-style Plots in the Python 2D plotting library Matplotlib. | 
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Oct 18 2012, 1:19am  | 
TIL that Google+ hides and deletes some of your posts without actively notifying you. | 
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Oct 14 2012, 7:54pm  | 
I wrote a new blog post explaining some of the code I wrote to emulate NetFlix's defunct AtHomeRSS feed. | 
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Oct 14 2012, 12:48am  | 
I just saw Another Earth, and really liked it. | 
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Oct 9 2012, 1:46pm  | 
Go, Maple Leafs! | 
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Oct 4 2012, 8:36pm  | 
Submitted for your consideration, a poem, titled, "An Account of Eve's Deleterious Action With Regard to the Fruit from ... | 
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Oct 4 2012, 9:29am  | 
I really loved the anecdote about Galileo's mis-decrypted messages to Kepler in the prologue to this week's This America... | 
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Oct 2 2012, 11:38am  | 
My next secret project has chosen itself. | 
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Sep 30 2012, 8:23pm  | 
Reginald is completely justified. | 
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Sep 26 2012, 10:04am  | 
Meanwhile in Canada... | 
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Sep 25 2012, 9:28am  | 
My wife and I watched The Cabin in the Woods last night. | 
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Sep 21 2012, 11:09pm  | 
Sittin' here watching rsync do its thing, wondering what's trending on Google+. | 
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Sep 21 2012, 10:51pm  | 
For Microsoft's new policy to work with existing passwords, Microsoft must have been doing one of the following: | 
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Sep 16 2012, 8:19pm  | 
FWIW, this matches my own experience as a CEO and business owner. | 
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Sep 11 2012, 2:45pm  | 
The kids are observing "Patriot Day" at school. | 
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Sep 7 2012, 12:18am  | 
Netflix was right. | 
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Aug 31 2012, 2:29pm  | 
Note to future self:... | 
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Aug 30 2012, 9:36am  | 
Jim Feig originally shared this post. | 
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Aug 28 2012, 9:35am  | 
"One of these days, you're going to wake up with a pen barrel stabbed into the side of your neck." - My wife's sweet not... | 
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Aug 27 2012, 5:00pm  | 
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play." L. | 
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Aug 26 2012, 6:40pm  | 
I can't make this stuff up | 
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Aug 23 2012, 9:23am  | 
My digital self has been under attack lately. | 
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Aug 19 2012, 10:00pm  | 
I took the family down to Imperial Valley one day last week. | 
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Aug 19 2012, 4:11pm  | 
I love that the Mars Curiosity Rover Twitter account uses the #pewpew  hashtag when it zaps things with its laser. | 
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Aug 11 2012, 7:49pm  | 
Sure, fly into micro gravity just to get to name a few yoyo tricks. | 
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Aug 9 2012, 5:13pm  | 
I just told my wife that since we didn't get Push Fight for vacation, we're definitely getting the LEGO Star Wars 9500 S... | 
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Aug 9 2012, 11:44am  | 
Chrome's going to disable our old extensions‽ | 
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Aug 8 2012, 10:15pm  | 
"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do". | 
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Aug 8 2012, 4:01pm  | 
I'm really, really intrigued by Rasberry Pi. | 
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Aug 6 2012, 11:17am  | 
The Eye in the Sky:... | 
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Aug 1 2012, 3:59pm  | 
Yesterday + Michelle May  shared this quote, and I think it's worth talking about. | 
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Jul 30 2012, 11:54am  | 
This is really disappointing. | 
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Jul 26 2012, 9:31pm  | 
I love John Doe's impromptu version of "There Stands The Glass" that he did with Terry Gross. | 
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Jul 24 2012, 10:04am  | 
I like that some of the reviews for Daniel Suarez's new book, Kill Decision, come from Tim O'Reilly and Chris Anderson (... | 
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Jul 21 2012, 11:20am  | 
"Mommy, Dad played video games until 11:00pm!" | 
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Jul 18 2012, 9:09am  | 
Portal Lego has now reached the Review Stage! | 
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Jul 17 2012, 1:58pm  | 
TIL'ed that the maintainer of Cool Tools, a site whose RSS feed I've been following for years, is Kevin Kelly, a co-foun... | 
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Jul 17 2012, 8:50am  | 
Code refactoring. | 
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Jul 11 2012, 10:47pm  | 
I love that some of the new features of C++ have made it more intuitive. | 
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Jul 10 2012, 8:38am  | 
I love that the Penny Arcade guys are giving us the option of paying for a year of viewing their site ad-free. | 
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Jun 30 2012, 12:30pm  | 
This my friends is the Grilled Beer and Cheese Sandwich! | 
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Jun 23 2012, 9:34am  | 
TIL that Tim from Braid, Steve from Minecraft and the guy from VVVVVV are all unlockable playable characters in Super Me... | 
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Jun 22 2012, 1:00pm  | 
I can be bought. | 
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Jun 19 2012, 4:51pm  | 
If you watch closely, I'm sure you'll find Tachikoma ghosts running around in there. | 
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Jun 14 2012, 1:25am  | 
"That's a very unusual key," thought the small metal lizard. | 
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Jun 9 2012, 1:26am  | 
Wow. Well done again, Lars von Trier.  Melancholia was powerful. | 
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Jun 7 2012, 8:04pm  | 
The heart wants what the heart wants. | 
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May 27 2012, 12:12pm  | 
Theoretically speaking, supposed you lived in a nation during wartime. | 
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May 27 2012, 11:50am  | 
Happy 75th Anniversary, Golden Gate Bridge! | 
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May 14 2012, 8:36pm  | 
After watching the "Welcome To Life" video here, a preview of the the Tier Two and Tier Three plans can be seen by click... | 
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May 11 2012, 9:35am  | 
The new iPad! | 
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May 7 2012, 2:01pm  | 
I mentally upvote other technophiles that have username domains of the first-initial, last name variety. | 
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May 6 2012, 10:24pm  | 
It's Sunday night. | 
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May 4 2012, 10:03am  | 
May the fourth be with you. | 
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May 3 2012, 8:15pm  | 
If you want this feature, improved iPad Keyboard cursor control, then follow the instructions in the description over at... | 
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May 2 2012, 10:09am  | 
You can't discuss ARGs without expecting us to (at the very least) view source at every page linked to by the discussion... | 
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May 2 2012, 9:39am  | 
Lunchtime activity today:... | 
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Apr 27 2012, 8:56pm  | 
Today's LEGO post is also a call to arms! | 
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Apr 25 2012, 9:25pm  | 
A call to arms to all my fellow Americans against the Canadian Threat. | 
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Apr 22 2012, 5:30pm  | 
Here. | 
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Apr 20 2012, 12:09pm  | 
So that's where "ye" comes from! | 
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Apr 15 2012, 10:55pm  | 
I stand behind my colleagues in Canada. | 
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Apr 15 2012, 10:04pm  | 
The day I finished reading "The Mote in God's Eye" I read a blog that mentions Crazy Eddie's GUI System. | 
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Apr 13 2012, 11:04pm  | 
TruFax:... | 
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Apr 11 2012, 1:02pm  | 
Found a use | 
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Apr 10 2012, 2:53pm  | 
This video needs to be revived now that Google Glasses has been announced. | 
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Apr 5 2012, 1:40am  | 
I just added an HTTP GET parameter to my location predictor, making it serve as a location history lookup, too. | 
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Apr 3 2012, 2:17pm  | 
I thought this episode of This American Life, "Take the Money and Run For Office," was especially enlightening. | 
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Apr 2 2012, 3:22pm  | 
I wrote a blog post describing some of the backend details of a tiny webpage, my location predictor. | 
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Mar 30 2012, 4:41pm  | 
So that's what they're used for! | 
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Mar 25 2012, 7:45pm  | 
"Draw Something" Revenge | 
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Mar 23 2012, 1:44am  | 
So, Google Plus evidently changed the private API that + Russell Beattie originally used to create RSS feeds (again). | 
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Mar 18 2012, 12:26pm  | 
Every year that I fill out TurboTax's forms, I come across ways to indicate contradicting choices. | 
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Mar 18 2012, 5:26am  | 
Every year that I fill out TurboTax's forms, I come across ways to indicate contradicting choices. | 
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Mar 17 2012, 6:38am  | 
I just used my first real-world closure. | 
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Mar 16 2012, 7:05pm  | 
This year marks the 15-year anniversary of my first online GUI playing card game. | 
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Mar 14 2012, 1:09pm  | 
There may be something to the idea that e-books make it harder to remember what you just read. | 
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Mar 12 2012, 5:06am  | 
Especially for + Mike Kobb , first video capture of a Langston Field deployment at an Alderson Drive point. | 
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Mar 9 2012, 3:51am  | 
As an experiment, I made a David's Location Predictor. | 
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Mar 5 2012, 6:33am  | 
If you've already seen Moneyball, you'll understand what I'm referring to here: | 
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Mar 4 2012, 5:41am  | 
I've fixed my Kindle Touch so that I can now stand it up and lean it against things to do some reading with my hands fre... | 
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Mar 1 2012, 6:12am  | 
Prank:... | 
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Feb 28 2012, 7:14am  | 
"I feel like I am behind the Maple Leaf Curtain in Canuckistan." | 
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Feb 28 2012, 3:07am  | 
A while ago I watched Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher's "No Strings Attached" and really disliked it. | 
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Feb 22 2012, 5:10pm  | 
One of my favorite books is Wayne Douglas Barlowe's Expedition . | 
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Feb 17 2012, 1:25am  | 
Awesome! | 
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Feb 14 2012, 6:11am  | 
The thing I love the most about the revamped Google Bar?... | 
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Feb 12 2012, 12:46pm  | 
This weekend we saw two movies, The Losers, and The Tree of Life. | 
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Feb 12 2012, 2:01am  | 
It's 2012, and EW just gave David Lee Roth-led Van Halen's latest album an A-. | 
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Feb 10 2012, 1:24am  | 
Today's xkcd makes me want to register the domain rnmrn.com . | 
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Feb 8 2012, 3:58pm  | 
I've finally begun to take a look at the location history I saved from my iPhone back in April 2011. | 
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Feb 8 2012, 9:20am  | 
All the videos from the C++ Going Native 2012 sessions are now available online for on-demand viewing! | 
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Feb 2 2012, 4:02pm  | 
I'm skipping through the playlist in the car, then from the backseat I hear "Daddy, play that song where he's afraid of ... | 
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Jan 28 2012, 2:19am  | 
This looks handy. | 
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Jan 25 2012, 2:05pm  | 
The big decision tonight? | 
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Jan 21 2012, 3:16pm  | 
I wrote a post about what it's like to be burying my parents this upcoming week. | 
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Jan 20 2012, 2:36pm  | 
Totoro fans rejoice, there really is a catbus! | 
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Jan 15 2012, 6:51pm  | 
Over at my personal blog, I describe the details of my Dead Man's Switch. | 
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Jan 15 2012, 1:04pm  | 
My wife and I decided to do some Winter Cleaning, and sorted through some VHS tapes and audio cassette tapes. | 
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Jan 10 2012, 2:20am  | 
This graphic bothers me way more than it should. | 
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Jan 6 2012, 5:39pm  | 
It's 1:30AM, and I'm going to block out just a little more of this silly project at the wiki. | 
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Jan 5 2012, 8:54am  | 
Oh, I would so love to have these poker chips. | 
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Jan 4 2012, 8:23am  | 
This year will mark the 20th anniversary of + Ted Pederson 's and my changes to NetHack. | 
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Jan 4 2012, 12:57am  | 
At Minecon, my son had a spider on his head, so I punched it. | 
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Jan 3 2012, 8:57am  | 
When I see a rash of failures like the ones at 09:56, 2012-01-03 is when I realize that as soon as I croak, my Dead Man'... | 
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Jan 3 2012, 8:48am  | 
I'm pretty happy that Evil Mad Science Headquarters is less than a mile from my climbing gym. | 
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Jan 2 2012, 1:59pm  | 
A good read. | 
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Jan 1 2012, 10:14am  | 
For New Year's Day, I was my children's belay slave. | 
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Dec 28 2011, 3:51pm  | 
I still love "Balls of Fury" more than I have any right to. | 
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Dec 28 2011, 9:33am  | 
Life would be so much easier with a Dremel tool. | 
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Dec 27 2011, 2:44pm  | 
This is the "fortune" I got from my fortune cookie today. | 
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Dec 14 2011, 2:39pm  | 
"Everything is a Remix"'s Kirby on the "Protect IP" act (Bill S.968). | 
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Dec 14 2011, 8:15am  | 
Some lucky PyCon attendee is going to get a Nao robot! | 
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Dec 13 2011, 7:41am  | 
On October 15th 2011, Adidas team athlete, Sasha DiGiulian became the first American women to climb the grade 9a (5.14d)... | 
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Dec 12 2011, 8:26am  | 
See that "hole?" There's a shadow about 20,000 light-years wide on the green thing. | 
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Dec 9 2011, 9:14am  | 
One of the Food Preferences at the upcoming PyCon is "Klingon." #python | 
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Dec 8 2011, 2:13am  | 
Even if you can't make it down to PyCon here in Santa Clara, there's some good material buried in the links to the tutor... | 
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Nov 27 2011, 1:16pm  | 
My dad unexpectedly passed away just over a week ago. | 
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Nov 17 2011, 1:59am  | 
I'm currently taking their db-class. | 
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Nov 17 2011, 1:27am  | 
Question for + Elliott Noel , which picture of the Buckyballs is better?... | 
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Nov 15 2011, 1:25am  | 
If You're Busy, You're Doing Something Wrong:... | 
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Nov 12 2011, 5:16pm  | 
I really loved The Illusionist. | 
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Nov 12 2011, 2:36am  | 
Why am I suddenly in a house-cleaning frenzy?... | 
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Nov 10 2011, 4:04am  | 
I'm paralyzed by fear of the Milevenium Bug (read it carefully), where in America, tomorrow is 11/11/11, but in the rest... | 
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Nov 9 2011, 3:44am  | 
Minecraft Massacre http://www.youtube.com/v/uPFD2PVtKQE&hl=en&fs=1&autoplay=1 | 
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Nov 8 2011, 2:09am  | 
The caption for this Atlantic magazine "In Focus" picture got it wrong. | 
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Nov 8 2011, 1:38am  | 
Wait, what?... | 
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Nov 7 2011, 5:31am  | 
Because 4% of the Energy Controls 100% of the Photons | 
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Nov 4 2011, 2:58am  | 
10 Coolest Climbing Walls - Oddee.com | 
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Nov 3 2011, 3:20am  | 
In Google+, reshared posts don't have links to the original post. | 
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Nov 2 2011, 4:08am  | 
I disagree about being "less interested in content not available for streaming." My feelings go with the red graphic "Th... | 
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Nov 2 2011, 3:24am  | 
This ex-PM of Google Reader gives a great criticism of the recent change to Google Reader. | 
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Nov 1 2011, 5:31pm  | 
I'm really torn on this overview of the new C++ (C++11). | 
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Nov 1 2011, 1:38pm  | 
I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see all these heroes of mine, authors of Java and Python, a co-founder of Appl... | 
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Oct 31 2011, 2:11am  | 
"I just noticed CVS has started stocking homeopathic pills on the same shelves with—and labeled similarly to—their actua... | 
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Oct 28 2011, 3:55am  | 
The science behind the video travelling around about the expo and quantum levitation. | 
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Oct 28 2011, 2:11am  | 
Best statistics question ever | 
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Oct 27 2011, 8:20am  | 
I do as I'm told. | 
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Oct 25 2011, 3:24pm  | 
Ted and I climbed to this 22-minute epic song. | 
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Oct 25 2011, 3:13am  | 
Miscellaneous (1 photo) | 
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Oct 23 2011, 4:46am  | 
What matters to me is that high-quality bricks will still be available. | 
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Oct 22 2011, 2:06pm  | 
Mmm Minecraft cake, with a few more like you I could literally build a better world ;) Joseph Lee originally shared this... | 
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Oct 21 2011, 9:55am  | 
An interesting reminder that Python has a loop-else clause. | 
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Oct 20 2011, 2:38pm  | 
In case you were wondering what the difference in measurement was lol Joseph Lee originally shared this post:... | 
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Oct 18 2011, 4:04am  | 
"The girl in these photos looks underaged." "Quick, upload them to our SkyDrive." | 
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Oct 18 2011, 2:37am  | 
Lemony Snicket comments on Occupy Wall Street. | 
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Oct 16 2011, 12:32pm  | 
Home-made deep-fried Oreo cookies. | 
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Oct 16 2011, 3:48am  | 
The computers with the Project Zoboid source code got stolen. | 
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Oct 15 2011, 8:32am  | 
Takes a second, but I literally LOLd. | 
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Oct 15 2011, 2:50am  | 
I find this pie chart hilariously accurate, although my eat free samples section is a little bigger. | 
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Oct 14 2011, 5:16pm  | 
Concept drawing for a future back-of-the-page-a-day-calendar masterpiece. | 
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Oct 14 2011, 3:27am  | 
Toast in the Shell:... | 
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Oct 13 2011, 6:40pm  | 
Super was twisted and messed up. | 
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Oct 13 2011, 8:12am  | 
Toast in the Shell. | 
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Oct 13 2011, 7:26am  | 
This is for my web marketing friends. | 
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Oct 13 2011, 2:26am  | 
"So this young upstart whippersnapper comes along and decides to try to specify a language that will let people write pr... | 
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Oct 9 2011, 3:55pm  | 
A useful chart describing when you should "Whip It" Joseph Lee originally shared this post:... | 
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Oct 8 2011, 8:46am  | 
North Beach. | 
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Oct 8 2011, 4:44am  | 
My wife lived one block from here and looked a little like the girl in this mural. | 
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Oct 7 2011, 5:40pm  | 
I really don't understand why "Sites" is in my Google navbar, and Reader is sometimes relegated another click away. | 
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Oct 6 2011, 1:56am  | 
I find this infographic both nostalgic and painfully accurate lol | 
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Oct 5 2011, 7:13pm  | 
I finally got a chance to watch Evangelion:... | 
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Oct 5 2011, 6:14am  | 
I excel at doing close to nothing. | 
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Oct 4 2011, 5:38pm  | 
I downloaded and watched Press Pause Play . | 
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Oct 4 2011, 2:31am  | 
+ Mike Kobb , Apple reports fixing the animated GIF CPU usage problem in Safari, and this is their test image. | 
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Oct 2 2011, 5:32am  | 
Grand Simulacrum | 
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Sep 30 2011, 3:04am  | 
Heh, given the costs of textbooks, it looks like I'll actually have to put my Kindle DX to its intended use. | 
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Sep 29 2011, 3:35am  | 
Floppy music DUO - Imperial march http://www.youtube.com/v/yHJOz_y9rZE&hl=en&fs=1&autoplay=1 | 
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Sep 27 2011, 5:22pm  | 
Signs you should get off the computer and just go to bed?... | 
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Sep 27 2011, 3:03am  | 
Spaghetti Junction | 
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Sep 26 2011, 6:13am  | 
Emerald Sea | 
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Sep 25 2011, 11:39am  | 
"A new study show[s] that people who have a little power but don’t have status can behave in nasty ways and get a kick o... | 
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Sep 25 2011, 11:00am  | 
Draw a Stickman | 
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Sep 23 2011, 7:35am  | 
Congressional Republicans:... | 
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Sep 23 2011, 7:05am  | 
"We're not going to integrate them, because screw you. | 
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Sep 22 2011, 3:18am  | 
I love this functional rectangular subdivision of the world! | 
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Sep 21 2011, 7:08pm  | 
After meeting with Reed Hastings, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has decided to split Amazon in two:... | 
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Sep 19 2011, 7:40am  | 
Splitting Netflix from Quikster isn't just bad, it dooms us all . | 
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Sep 18 2011, 10:08am  | 
When I watch T.V. | 
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Sep 18 2011, 9:07am  | 
I was amused to read the Eric Ries interview in Wired, "don't launch your product or have major releases, just do contin... | 
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Sep 17 2011, 4:30pm  | 
Yay, I added a mobile CSS style to my wiki! | 
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Sep 17 2011, 2:01pm  | 
I'm enjoying the Brad Pitt interview in this week's Entertainment Weekly more than I have any right to. | 
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Sep 15 2011, 6:51am  | 
"[Of] the 10 richest counties in the United States, according to the Census Bureau, seven of them are hubs of top secret... | 
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Sep 13 2011, 12:15pm  | 
I bet we could go explore the galaxy... | 
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Sep 11 2011, 4:21am  | 
Porting files:... | 
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Sep 8 2011, 6:45am  | 
Capricious Meta, you troublemaker. | 
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Sep 6 2011, 10:42am  | 
I love that Notch has the same love for programming that I do! | 
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Sep 5 2011, 1:25pm  | 
"Why Keeping up with RSS is poisonous--" pissed me off. | 
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Sep 2 2011, 4:31pm  | 
Here's öne way to test my feed generator- >_< /\ & ※ Why‽ | 
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Sep 1 2011, 3:26pm  | 
PlusFeed to close | 
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Aug 31 2011, 12:03pm  | 
Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ as a children’s book | 
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Aug 31 2011, 9:10am  | 
Best Productivity Tip Ever "Identify the most important thing you have to d | 
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Aug 27 2011, 11:55pm  | 
I was away on vacation last week. | 
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Aug 20 2011, 11:21pm  | 
Mad Men Theme Song - Bass Cover Came across this while re-listening to "Mad | 
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Aug 20 2011, 2:51pm  | 
I'm enjoying watching Notch code this weekend. | 
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Aug 19 2011, 11:54pm  | 
Making a mix-CD of pop songs for the rental car for summer vacation is beco | 
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Aug 19 2011, 2:52pm  | 
This is how I keep my co-workers away from my sandwiches. | 
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Aug 19 2011, 1:10am  | 
I made my Interrobang Extension for Chrome even better! | 
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Aug 17 2011, 7:32am  | 
Notch challenges Bethesda to Quake 3 match to settle lawsuit. | 
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Aug 16 2011, 10:01am  | 
Because I have Pirates of Penzance on my brain lately. | 
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Aug 15 2011, 8:59am  | 
Ryan Estrada originally shared this post: | 
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Aug 14 2011, 11:58pm  | 
If you haven't already done so, I recommend reading The Big Short ( http:// | 
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Aug 14 2011, 10:26pm  | 
I always find Leigh Reyes's drawings inspiring! | 
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Aug 14 2011, 7:36pm  | 
My daughter made her first video. | 
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Aug 12 2011, 4:27pm  | 
If you have a Facebook account, you should let your Facebook friends data-l | 
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Aug 12 2011, 3:02pm  | 
C++11 is here! | 
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Aug 12 2011, 2:18pm  | 
Adding a flywheel to a bicycle seems like such an obvious thing to do! | 
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Aug 12 2011, 2:02pm  | 
A storm on Saturn overtakes its own tail, wrapping all the way around the p | 
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Aug 9 2011, 11:19am  | 
My son is going to go nuts for this Tornado mod in Minecraft. | 
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Aug 6 2011, 10:58pm  | 
This post seemed too big to put in your Google+ streams, so it went back to | 
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Aug 5 2011, 9:42pm  | 
Looks about right. | 
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Aug 5 2011, 3:33am  | 
It all started with a humble blog in 2002... | 
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Aug 4 2011, 8:23am  | 
"Move" A Great little video montage! | 
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Aug 1 2011, 12:46pm  | 
What is this‽ Oh, that's right. | 
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Jul 31 2011, 9:30pm  | 
Straight from the phone, this is what a Thai Iced Coffee should look like. | 
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Jul 30 2011, 9:46am  | 
After suggesting that you should be working , this blog posts suggests that | 
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Jul 29 2011, 9:46am  | 
Fifty Writing Tools: | 
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Jul 29 2011, 12:30am  | 
GMail, I know I made dozens of filters. | 
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Jul 27 2011, 11:12am  | 
Always work on stuff you love. | 
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Jul 27 2011, 9:43am  | 
Polar Graph of What Happens on Which Days I'm fascinated with Tuesday. | 
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Jul 26 2011, 1:22pm  | 
Where's all this blood coming from? | 
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Jul 25 2011, 1:49pm  | 
This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. | 
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Jul 25 2011, 11:08am  | 
The World's Last Men's Pocky It's gone. | 
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Jul 23 2011, 8:05pm  | 
The 2011 Eisner Awards The Good Yay, I love Chew ! | 
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Jul 22 2011, 8:55am  | 
The world's last unopened box of Men's Pocky. | 
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Jul 21 2011, 8:47am  | 
Marco Brambilla: CivilizationInsanely awesome collection of clips.Installed | 
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Jul 19 2011, 9:29pm  | 
I really like what I've heard, +Daniel Rosenfeld!  Just bought the album. | 
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Jul 18 2011, 9:07pm  | 
I used to think it was charming when I visit a new profile and discover tha | 
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Jul 18 2011, 1:09am  | 
"You need to do something about your drinking problem."That's what my wife | 
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Jul 17 2011, 10:51pm  | 
The kids are asleep.  The wife has gone to work.  I have the house to mysel | 
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Jul 17 2011, 6:15pm  | 
Thanks to the workaround mentioned in LifeHacker (linked below), I've got a | 
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Jul 15 2011, 11:07pm  | 
Am I going to fund this at the $60.00 level? Maybe I'm good at the $35.00 l | 
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Jul 15 2011, 2:51pm  | 
The kids got to fly for a couple of minutes.  The staff was pretty awesome | 
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Jul 15 2011, 12:34am  | 
I loved Summer Wars. I guess one wouldn't be surprised, given how much I lo | 
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Jul 14 2011, 4:29pm  | 
This is what happens to page-a-day calendar pages on my desk.  They die a d | 
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Jul 13 2011, 10:04pm  | 
That 1 Lego Jonathan Leissler originally shared this post: | 
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Jul 13 2011, 9:16am  | 
See that Men's Pocky box there?  It's empty now.  That means I have some to | 
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Jul 13 2011, 12:27am  | 
Remember how I said I missed Crime movies?  I just watched The Lincoln Lawy | 
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Jul 12 2011, 1:46pm  | 
There is an atom feed associated with your Google+ account. (Look at the so | 
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Jul 12 2011, 9:21am  | 
This chart hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. It speaks volumes.Give | 
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Jul 11 2011, 9:50pm  | 
So now when I visit the newly designed TechCrunch, I just want to play Mine | 
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