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01:05 am
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talking into the void
the effect that facebook has had on my lj posting is interesting...
recently, i've largely only been posting to lj as a means of communication - in other words, i don't write these entries for my own amusement.
given that i have an audience on fb, and an audience here, and they're both different, and also smaller than my lj audience of a year ago (at least, so it seems), i've really not been posting anything on either place.
interesting.
or maybe i just have less to say? :)
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04:13 pm
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an open question...
would you remove someone who you knew personally from your lj friends list without first telling them?
if so, what reasons might you have for doing so?
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05:34 pm
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wikipedia adventures .. and BARBIE
some time ago, it was shown to me that the barbie article on wikipedia said she went to stuyvesant high school. (or that the school that she went to was modelled after it).
this struck me as kind of strange, since at the time barbie was created, stuy was an all-boys school.. so i stuck in the obligatory {{fact}}, and eventually, someone else removed it.
but, i was curious - who would put that in? would it be someone famous? jake dobkin?
so i started on a binary search, and figured out who did it. and, lo and behold, it's someone who reads this journal!
i'd kept meaning to ask in person, but instead i'll do it here. why? :) was there an actual reason?
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12:35 pm
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from dave van ronk's autobiography
I was encouraged by a lot of the changes that were happening in the 1960s, but as an orthodox leftist I was also a very strong critic of the student movement and the New Left. Of course, I agreed with a lot of their stances—I was strongly pro—civil rights and strongly antiwar—but most of those people were not really radicals, just a bunch of very pissed-off liberals. They had no grounding, and indeed no interest, in theory, and their disdain for studying history and learning economics infuriated me. The core problem with the New Left was that it wasn't an ideology, it was a mood—and if you are susceptible to one mood, you are susceptible to another. They wanted the world to change, but essentially it was a petty bourgeois movement that had no connection with what was really going on. The working class at least has some power—if the working class folds its arms, the machinery stops—and as for the ruling class, its power is obvious. But what power does the middle class have? They have the power to talk: yak, yak, yak. To interpret, reinterpret, and re-re-reinterpret. And that is the history of the New Left in a nutshell.
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09:00 pm
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stuff
does anyone want an old cd boombox?
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12:10 pm
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irsvote
wtf!
http://irsvote.com/vote.html
Why 99¢?
Due to the nature of our campaign we need to make sure every vote counts and do everything possible to make sure that the votes cannot be refuted in any way. Unfortunately, if a vote is made and payment is not collected it becomes difficult to authenticate the vote.
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11:18 pm
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03:21 am
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watching mtv2's alternative show
there's some band singing in french on...
(vaguely):
not me: 'are they french or french canadian?'
me: 'hm... i dunno... are they even really french? i bet they're from new york or something'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous_Non_Plus
Nous Non Plus is a faux-french indie rock band based out of New York City. The band consists of Céline Dijon (vocals), Jean-Luc Retard (bass and vocals), Bonnie Day (vocals, violin and tambourine), Cal d'Hommage (guitar), Professeur Harry Covert (drums), Morris "Mars" Chevrolet (synthesizer), and François Hardonne (keyboard and trumpet).
heh.
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02:02 pm
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more offensive articles
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/02/11/lw.programmed.to.marry.parents/index.html
"When you grow up familiar with a certain type of person, you're attracted to that same type of person because it feels comfortable, whether you like it or not," says Savage, author of "Breathing Room: Creating Space to Be a Couple." "That's what people mean when they meet a potential partner and say, 'It 'feels like I've known him my whole life.'"
Anecdotal evidence also suggests that a parent's physical or intellectual traits may have some influence. A Hungarian researcher studied the facial features of 52 families and found a significant correlation between the appearance of men and their fathers-in-law and those of women and their mothers-in-law.
And in a survey of approximately 2,700 "high-achieving" men -- those in the top 10 percent of their age income bracket and/or with an advanced degree -- a University of Iowa researcher found they are likely to marry women with education levels and careers that mirror those of their moms.
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11:20 am
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does anyone want this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CZ3AKA/sr=1-4/qid=1234368101/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1234368101&sr=1-4&seller=
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03:43 pm
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12:41 am
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calling all brooklyners
anyone wanna try this place?
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01:19 am
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names - fake science
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1874955,00.html?cnn=yes
In a new study to be published in the March issue of Social Science Quarterly, David Kalist and Daniel Lee, economists at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, find that adolescent boys with unpopular names are likelier than other boys to be referred to the juvenile-justice system for alleged offenses. The researchers conclude that the Ernests, Prestons and Tyrells of America are significantly more delinquent than the Michaels and Davids. Why? (See the top 10 crime stories of 2008.)
The short answer is that our names play an important role in shaping the way we see ourselves — and, more important, how others see us. Abundant academic literature proves these points.
it's so easy to say that this study is crap - it doesn't even seem to acknowledge that certain names are more common amongst certain demographic groups.
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08:38 pm
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i had this .
i had this article open, and it only just hit me how funny the headline is:
Prison employee sentenced to prison for having sex with inmate
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/30/colorado.prison.sex/index.html
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11:57 am
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annoying woman
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/01/28/jobloss.hard.times/index.html
Amber Easton has gone from $80,000 a year in salary to scrambling for work. At a time in her life when she should be scaling the corporate ladder, she has instead spiraled into a deep depression. She recently lost her car and now faces eviction from her apartment.
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She estimates she's making $20,000 -- "if that" -- as a contract employee working from her home. "I just haven't made enough to keep up."
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here, we have a woman, single, who's been making a decent amount of money for what i think is a decent number of years... now complaining that she can only make 20k a year.
does she have no savings?
and anyway, there are entire families that scrape by, with 20k a year. if you're a family of 4 (or at least, 3) making 20k a year, i don't think you're even eligible for welfare.
what kind of a story is this? geez.
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12:45 am
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heh
http://dogandpanda.com
some sort of interesting stuff there
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06:38 pm
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does anyone want a simpsons comic?
?
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03:24 am
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fyp
http://fuckyoupenguin.blogspot.com/
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11:29 am
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rss feed
if i start feeding my posts into this journal, will all of you who ever post comments still be willing to do so if you have to do it on a different site?
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01:17 am
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on Zardoz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz
Jay Cocks of Time called the film "visually bounteous"
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