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Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Happy Valentine’s Day

Sorry, Google. I know you had the best of intentions, but this is scary, not sweet.

The Cost Of Living (Pt. 2)

Peanut Corp. of America files for bankruptcy
Let’s just hope nobody bails them out (of jail).

Cost Of Living

I decided to post the misattributed Stalin quote the other day because I wanted to write about something that has been really upsetting me for the last month: the current salmonella epidemic we are experiencing in the United States of America.
When this first started catching nationwide attention, all I knew was fear. Obsessively [...]

Safety In Numbers

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic.
Joseph Stalin*

* Interestingly enough, there is actually no credible evidence of Stalin ever saying this famous quote.

Phone Crash In C

I am writing this with the Wordpress app on my iPhone, so I have decided to write a post about writing this on my iPhone, or rather, the topic of trying to write anything substantial on a phone.
You know that quote, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”?
Well, [...]

The Weight Of Pleas On Deaf Ears

It was last Tuesday, and I was walking up 7th St, on my way home from work. Lately, I’ve been feeling a bit more social than usual.. well, at least more accepting of the world around me, and the possibility of unsolicited conversation.
Homeless people haven’t been talking to me as much as they used to, [...]