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Serenity 宁静

Posted on 2013-06-09
Deep space meets Scandinavian crime. Tonight, I watched last week’s season 3 premiere of The Killing. Jewel Staite plays detective Holder’s girl friend. In one scene, she pulls down Holder’s undershirt to look at the tattoo...

Fifty-Six Thousand

Posted on 2013-05-20
I’m using Crashplan for my on-line backup. If you are not backing up your data regularly – you should. In more than one place, if possible, and not all in the cloud. So when I was sitting quietly in front of my computer the other day...

A Rising Tide

Posted on 2013-05-13
Thank heavens for the Internet. For translators, it has made researching subjects in their target language easier than ever. It was not so long ago that I had to buy countless dictionaries, reference books, and magazine subscriptions, just to...

Über-Gourmet

Posted on 2013-03-28
Living in a city where, according to a quote whose source I cannot pinpoint right now, “smoking marijuana is legal, but watering the lawn before 5 pm can get you arrested,” I am pleased to see that someone is addressing the concerns...

72 Suburbs in Search of a City

Posted on 2013-03-22
This famous quote by Dorothy Parker reminded me that as a result of my recent move I keep hearing this question from friends and family: How big exactly is Los Angeles? There’s no simple answer. In other countries, there seems to be an...

High-Speed Internet in Kansas

Posted on 2013-03-16
Despite claims such as “x times faster,” Internet service providers usually never quite say faster than what, and the actual speed of data transmission is subject to a whole bunch of factors out of the customer’s control....

Silentium

Posted on 2013-03-09
You may not know this, but there is catholic boarding school in my past. It was a small school, and we gathered thrice daily in the refectorium, our dining hall. There, we were not allowed to talk. Instead, one student was delegated to read to...
recent from Funny ©opyright Math
Welcome to the era of copyright overreach. I am sure you remember such milestones as the DMCA, ACTA, SOPA, and the PROTECT IP act? Related are the outlandish monetary claims in RIAA lawsuits over illegal music downloads, such as the $150,000 per download per song in the now infamous LimeWire suit. For a long...
recent from 懐かし Silentium
You may not know this, but there is catholic boarding school in my past. It was a small school, and we gathered thrice daily in the refectorium, our dining hall. There, we were not allowed to talk. Instead, one student was delegated to read to us, usually an edifying text of a religious nature. Of course,...
recent from Watercooler Serenity 宁静
Deep space meets Scandinavian crime. Tonight, I watched last week’s season 3 premiere of The Killing. Jewel Staite plays detective Holder’s girl friend. In one scene, she pulls down Holder’s undershirt to look at the tattoo on his chest. It says Serenity, probably a reminder of his...
recent from Miscellaneous Fifty-Six Thousand
I’m using Crashplan for my on-line backup. If you are not backing up your data regularly – you should. In more than one place, if possible, and not all in the cloud. So when I was sitting quietly in front of my computer the other day pondering a particularly ambivalent English sentence, I noticed...

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