January 2010
20 posts
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Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
Kevin Dunbar is a researcher who studies how scientists study things — how they fail and succeed. In the early 1990s, he began an unprecedented research project: observing four biochemistry labs at Stanford University. Philosophers have long theorized about how science happens, but Dunbar wanted to get beyond theory. He wasn’t satisfied with abstract models of the scientific method — that...
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Alteration
Not to long ago I introduced my sisters and mother to Netflix and it’s ability to stream movies. I gave them access to my account to use whenever they’d like.
They are slowly injecting estrogen into my queue and it’s changing my video preferences.
BUT COME ON!!!
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Muji!
Thanks to a lab-mate I have now been introduce to these notebooks! Small, compact and pretty cheap! The site itself is pretty contains some other cool stuff. I just hope shipping doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
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Understanding
I’m grateful to have a job that is flexible around my school schedule; however I’m more thankful for a understanding boss. She tries to schedule around my classes and in return all she ask is just “do my job without any screw ups”. I can say it’s been working pretty smoothly till this day. I’m going to enjoy it while I can since the previous jobs I’ve had...
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Rainy Daze
Boy: Sorry for the other night being drunk and telling you how attractive and heart-warming you are.
Girl: I think you have the wrong person.
Boy: Oops. You look quite similar to my friends roommate.
Girl: It's understandable.
( a slight pause)
Boy: Does this qualify as a awkward moment?
Girl: Yea...
Boy: I thought so.
Thank you Mr. Heavy weight champion George Foreman for your tiny compact grill. An amazing machine that kicked the fat out of my salmon.
Well mostly for the fact it kept me from cooking outside and catching a cold in my water soaked vans.
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Markdown
Learned today not all manager specials at the super market are great. Particularly the ones already spoiled when purchased..
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The Snapper
The quarter has come where I must take my Advance Writing class requirement to graduate from school. I’ve dreaded this moment ever since I saw it highlighted on my requirement list my sophomore year. I don’t find writing to be a daunting or laborious task but I’ve never really been able to use it as a creative outlet. I’ve written ton’s of paper since the start of my...
Why You Shouldn't Trust Facebook with Your Data:...
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Facebook with Your Data: An Employee’s Revelations
The abuse of private data by Facebook employees was pretty much inevitable; the simple act of amassing data tends to lead to corruption. What’s sad is how lightly the social network reportedly controls its employees.
At one point, Facebook staff widely used a “master password” that unlocked...
Trunk
Maybe it’s a bit extreme to say but the inside of my trunk looks like the remainders of the Korea War (Well just before the US gave a threat of atomic warfare). Ugh, stuff just tends to pile in there and every so often I’ll toss out the same Trader Joe bags, scraps of paper, snack wrappers, broken pencils, and clothes.
I wish I could keep my car constantly clean. Most times I tend to...
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The Post-it Note Art Exhibit (at The Giant Robot...
The Post-it Note Art Exhibit (at The Giant Robot Art Gallery)
You guys should go. Post-it’s are just badass in general but add drawings you got yourself something awesome…
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
– William Faulkner
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Get It Together!
I’m usually an individual who tends to keep all his events, dates, deadlines, and other miscellaneous plans written on the ends of notebooks and bits of paper. So over the course of the last couple months I’ve started to put things in a day planner…
The only difference from having pieces of notes and reminders strewn across a bag is now it’s only contained in a 8.3 x 5.3...
I really wish you knew how to fly....