Old Blog Entries (archives)
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The Accidental Motorcycle Thief
The other day, I wanted to go for a quick lunch at the canteen (cafeteria), so I asked one of the students interning for the Japanese course if I could borrow her scooter. She gave me the key and told me where it was parked, along with a description. She said the license plate number was 85, and that it was a 100cc Honda Wave, with a manual transmission, in gray. I found the 100cc manual Honda Wave almost immediately, but noticed that the license plate was actually 58 and that it was blue with gray accents. I chalked it up to the student remembering it wrong, or me hearing it…
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Dropbox is addictive
Getting more Dropbox space is like earning achievements in your favorite video game. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ It’s been a while since I wrote about Dropbox vs. Google Docs (for MS Office document backup), and there have been new developments since then that really make this software interesting. So how do you get started? First, create a Dropbox account (clicking this link gives you and I both 250MB extra storage space on top of your initial 2GB) After you sign up, you will be presented with a list of basic tasks that teach you the basics of the service. As an incentive, you are awarded extra storage space (250MB) upon completion of all…
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Random Links 11/22/2010
The Burger Lab: Revisiting the Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald’s Burger That Just Won’t Rot We all assumed it was due to preservatives/additives/salt content, but this experiment tries to determine the real reason with a control – homemade burgers. Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving BEST ILLUSTRATIONS EVAAAR!! Grandma’s Superhero Therapy Interesting background story, but the curtains in the sandwich photo sealed it for me. The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students’ papers I felt like this in high school; I wrote around fifteen entrance exam essays for various universities with 100% success rate (and then didn’t make it into a UC myself due to a…
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Spidermax
From today, Monday’s my only day off – and I’ll take it, because until now I didn’t have one (I was teaching at least TOEFL prep night classes every day, but they finished last week). I figure I’ll spend the morning drinking cafe creme and playing on the computer, clean the Crown’s spark plugs before it gets too hot, and go in to the office in the afternoon. Max is staying home because there’s only one teacher at school (one quit and another’s at a seminar) today and he’s coming down with a cold or something. It’s easier to make sure he gets enough liquids and sleep at home… BUT…
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A notice to students:
No, you cannot turn in assignments via facebook message. Get a clue.
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A request to parents:
Please stop making Facebook accounts for your babies and sending friend requests to all of your friends “friends.” You are freaking me the fuck out with your poor judgment and obvious disconnect to the real world (you know, the one where any idiot can have a kid). I dub thee famewhore mama / papa.
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cuteness overload
Even though I swore it’d never come to pass, her first pair of shoes are ones that squeak.
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Random Links 11/15/2010
Grizzly Bear Chasing a Bison Down a Highway in Yellowstone Somehow more satisfying than a photobombing rodent. The Pirates Are Winning If you had nothing to lose and everything to gain, you might make a good pirate, too (especially if you had access to cheap Soviet Bloc weapons and ready access to shipping lanes). How to install Android 2.21 on an iPhone 3g Nobody’s stopping you from swapping an NSX engine into your Ferrari, either. Where and how to play Caravan in Fallout: New Vegas My kings and jacks are your worst nightmare. ///////////////////////// Also: Hey, that’s what I said.
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Soapland CMs (Oh my Toruko)
Boku, manzoku.
