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Monday, August 7th, 2006
Tonight after softball practice, Ariele took me to KFC to pick up some dinner for myself (she was having leftovers). When we pulled up to the restaurant, I got out so I could get in line while she parked the car. Very soon after I got in line, a man ...
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Today is my twenty-fifth birthday. I kicked off the festivities yesterday with our softball team getting crushed by my co-workers. The league is set up such that any Caltech affiliated personnel can participate. The mechanical engineers (of which I am one) have their own team, but my girlfriend's lab in ...
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
I have been using the Blingo search engine for almost four months now. What is Blingo? It's a search engine that wraps its own layout around results from Google. Do you use Google now? Do you like it? If so, you can use Blingo and get the same results, but ...
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
I put a nontrivial amount of effort into making sure that when I read news online I get my news from a wide variety of sources. Sure, there are writers and bloggers with whose views I often find sympathy, but I think it's important that I also read the thoughts ...
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006
Two stories from Mount Everest made the news in the past few days. One involved a man who had collapsed on his way to the summit and lay dying in the snow. About forty climbers moved past him on their way to the top of the mountain, most not offering ...
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
I am getting more and more worried, pretty much by the day, about the direction in which the Bush administration is leading my country. I sleep worse at night when I think about it. I lose my appetite during the day when I think about it. I just simply become ...
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