July 2012
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June 2012
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“Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating,...”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill.
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“Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy...”
– Jonathan Franzen, “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts,” in the New York Times.
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When I was younger I was militantly libertarian, an adamant believer in the primacy of private property over public and the rights of the individual foremost. I still am, in many ways, especially when it comes to freedom of speech, religion, and thought, but I suppose the point at which I began to change into a more classical liberal was when a hotel security guard attempted to explain a nebulous,...
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Oh, good. The new iPhone app for Tumblr has not only made article text size so large I can only fit one paragraph on screen at a time, but it’s apparently lost the ability to customize cross-posted tweets and view other blogs’ details directly from the app.
I am now made aware that at clubs it is a thing for women to take off their shirts? I am confused. Do women not go to clubs to wear fancy clothing and dance? Why are strip clubs tacky in comparison to regular clubs if basically the same things go on?
I am completely useless at this. Give me a dim dive bar, please. There I understand what is expected: banter and mockery, straight liquor,...
Why does everyone suddenly care about Fiona Apple today?
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Every once in a while I go look at the list of “liked” posts of one or another of my favorite followers and I realize that everyone on this blogging site really is living in an entirely different Internet than mine.
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John Rock's Error →
Fascinating article by Malcolm Gladwell (so trendy!) on the birth control pill, menstruation, and cancer. It may not be a typical male interest, but as my mother and several other women I know are breast cancer survivors, I do my best to stay informed. If the conclusions the scientists quoted in this article reached are accurate, a redesign of the birth control pill could have enormous...
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In order to live well, it is absolutely necessary that you yield to the immediate, natural impulse—when confronted by an obscure Google Voice error that causes your speech to be overdubbed five or six times through your cell phone—to begin singing the Lacrimosa in perfect harmony with yourself. This applies even if you are in the produce section of the grocery store and it appears to naive...
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Three Realizations Upon Moving My Contacts and...
I apparently have 516 contacts in my phone, but only ten of those numbers are people I voluntarily call.
About 50% of my personal emails are correspondence with people I’ve never met.
My priorities are such that I programmed all the Chinese and Mexican take-out numbers into my phone before any of my work numbers, many of which I have yet to record.
