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Sunday, August 15th, 2010
New Starts and New Beginnings
As humans we greatly anticipate new beginnings and blindly ignore how often past new starts have mistreated us (hence why we want new starts).
In video games it’s disappointing to fail/die, but not so much since the reset button is always there. In Mario if you die you’re left with plenty of lives left–and when those […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Macro Procrastination
Back in college the panic caused by the deadline of a paper sets off certain neurons in one’s brain that it’s go-time. Distractions are suddenly unwelcome, whereas just 5 minutes prior, IMs and Facebook notifcations were not only accepted, but encouraged tangents.
The luxury of time is only an asset when you’re fighting against it; and […]
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Model Citizens of the NFL
On the local San Diego news they were talking about Ben Roethlissberger’s 6-game suspension for alleged rapes/assaults and as a result the Steelers are shopping him, he mentioned that “some of the names include the 49ers, the Raiders”, while snidely remarking, “no surprise there…”
Actually Mr. newsreporter, it is if you followed sports at all.
To his […]
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
Do’s and Don’ts at a Career Fair
A career fair as we just found out is an incredible way to look for hungry, eager students, and as an added bonus to appear superior to these jobless youngsters while communicating to them, “yeah, one day you could be sitting behind this table.”
Having finally had a chance to be on the other side here […]
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Two Wheels are Better than Four
Certainly they’re more efficient.
I’m currently still carless, leaving Bike to jump out to a still commanding lead that’ll continue to grow for a while.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Two Wheels vs. Four Wheels
In light of my car being on the shop, (yet again), I will use this opportunity to take advantage of my trusty two-wheeled friend, who, unlike the gas-guzzling Explorer, is much lighter, nimbler, and has never let me down.
As a hipster in the making it will be my goal over the next 30 days at […]
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Valentine’s Day…Ranking the Cast
It’s appropriate enough that this movie came out during NBA All-Star weekend, as the recipe for this movie was basically to throw in a bunch of good looking people together for fun entertainment, and not necessarily to satisfy the purists.
Below then is how they ranked, females first:
1)
Obvious choice.
2)
I squealed every time she came […]
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Phone Interview today
Candidate: “Yeah I was a management science major, which is what it sounds like, the science of management.”
Q: “Can you tell about the investment club you’re in?”
C: “Oh I’m not really involved in it much anymore…did you want to know something spceific about it?”
Q: “What made you specifically apply to our position?”
C: “I’m just looking […]
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Double your pleasure, double your fun
clicky
And this too.
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Life vs predictability
My cousin who’s just a year older than I am (I’m 26 he 27), and someone I’ve always viewed as a peer is soon getting married and has just bought a house in suburbia California.
On the other side of things I’m enjoying single life, go out every weekend, and am renting a place in an […]