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My internet is so slow

Personal: I’ve implemented a new comment system.  It should be all fancy and stuff.  I primarily did it so you guys could comment using your facebook as a login as opposed to registering for something new.  Hope ya’ll enjoy it.

Science: This is cool.  Just so you know, generally advances don’t come in 8 orders of magnitude steps.

Politics: Obama has a digg type system for making policy recommendations.  People can submit proposals, and vote on them, the most highly rated ones will be given in some big book to the President for consideration.  Who knows what that means but I voted up this proposal because it’s a good pro science anti nonsense proposal.  You should vote it up, too.

Charity: Freerice is onto my little game and has reduced the rice reward for answering questions with fewer options.  So, now I’m down to my old rate of donation again.  🙁

Entertainment: I listened to all the Stephen Fry podgrams.  He’s got quite the vocal and rhetorical skill.  I think he pretty much played himself in V for Vendetta.

Fitness: I have been on push-up hiatus due to a mysterious abdominal injury.  It seems to have healed now, though.  So today I did push-ups on my new swivel devices.  They make things significantly more difficult.  They, combined with degradation from my inactivity, take my count down to 40.  So that’s where I’m starting.  I plan to attempt to climb back up to 100 in 2 months.  We’ll see how feasible that pace is with these contraptions.

Conclusion: I’ve stayed up to see the sunrise.  It’s really not my fault.  The internet was so slow as to necessitate it.  If any of you Central people read this it’s ok to bang on my door around 1:30 if you want.  Extra sleep won’t kill me, I guess.

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I’m reviewing the literature

I think this excerpt speaks for itself.

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the roseberry murder search

I did the roseberry murder search and turns out Homer, here, got the death penalty, for murder, recently, in Arizona. Also, was a pot dealer.  Seems like they threw the book at him.  Kinda cool.  Looks like there are a few other Roseberry murderers out there, too.

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VLC and me

I just took a shower so... focus on the beard ladies.

The new version of VLC, the media player I use, has a new feature that allows audible play at increased and decreaseed speeds.  I’ve discovered I can listen to podcasts at 1.5x, and sometimes 2x, and still understand everything.  This is going to be such a time saver.

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I dunnno if they’re my fantasies, or my nightmares…

Water tastes better when drunk from a jar.

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Sister Martha

MAR stands for Memory Address Register which is a specific piece of memory in a computer that keeps track of the memory address that holds the next instruction the computer should perform.  In a way it tell the computer what to do.  My sister’s nickname is Mar.  I think this is especiially fitting for her computer scienctist fiancé.

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maybe some in this category will be more existential

My waist is less than 34 inches in circumference.