Archive for October, 2007

Libraries

30Oct07

Immediately upon entering lovely Lamont library tonight, I noticed that there was an obscene number of people in everyone’s favorite 24-hour purgatory for busy students attempting to finish their papers. Every carrel on the first and second floors of the library was full, and the third floor had only a few vacancies. It’s not even [...]


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MySp-aceBook

22Oct07

I’ve just been reading these two really excellent pages about the amateur aesthetic of the internet for my class on the History of Software and Networks, and I stumbled across yet another reference to the danah boyd article on the class divisions between MySpace and Facebook. I’ve been running into and away from this discussion [...]


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Flagbearer

14Oct07

Here’s to you, Mr. Rasta Flagbearer.
You are always there for the children of Jah, tirelessly waving that red, gold, and green flag back and forth in wide circles while one of Bob Marley’s 80 children chat about poverty and violence in Jamaica. Nobody really knows your name, and you can’t really get famous by doing [...]


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Abuse

03Oct07

Continuing in the trend of “Christina being bad at taking care of her living things”…
I got a Betta on Monday. It’s pretty! It’s feisty! It’s been totally abused for the last 24 hours oh my God I’m so sorry fish =( =(
You see, I didn’t think to read a guide on taking care of lovely [...]


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Ironic

01Oct07

It’s pretty damn ironic that a showed called “Beauty and the Geek” makes no effort whatsoever to half of its supposed constituents. Its host channel, the CW, streams all episodes of its shows online, but APPARENTLY–only to people using Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Mac.
Linux users? Screwed as usual.
I suppose this isn’t very ironic at all (or [...]


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