February 2012
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My new landing page + more →
I got a job interview for web development! And I needed 3 code samples, so I updated my personal site’s landing page, re-did my CV page, and featured some code I’ve written over the years.
Check it out and let me know what you think! Really.
EDIT: Made myself a personal logo, too. Does it make sense?
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Everloving by Moby
Heard this one on GrooveShark...
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January 2012
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The ethics of brain boosting →
Scientists have found a way to electrically stimulate the brain using a cheap, painless, safe, and easily wearable headband so that you can perform better at… everything. It’s not sci-fi, and likely probably simpler, easier to use and more effective than you’re thinking.
Do I want or do I want?
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Magic Mushrooms Expand the Mind By Dampening Brain... →
Haven’t read an article this refreshing in a while. Here’s a quote to contextualize:
[Aldous] Huxley posited that ordinary consciousness represents only a fraction of what the mind can take in. In order to keep us focused on survival, Huxley claimed, the brain must act as a “reducing valve” on the flood of potentially overwhelming sights, sounds and sensations. What remains,...
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Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus →
A pretty cool read about a writer and his experiences with a particular octopus— a read that is as illuminating about the creature herself as it is heart-warming in the end.
A brief excerpt: (one of the more scientific/theoretical sentences in the text)
“Octopuses,” writes philosopher Godfrey-Smith, “are a separate experiment in the evolution of the mind.” And that, he feels, is what ...
December 2011
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You know what SOPA is, right? →
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Little Black Submarines by The Black Keys
Easily...
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You’re Lionel Richie by Mogwai
Hardcore...
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Watch…aaaaand I really wanna go skiing now. This movie looks sick, btw.
November 2011
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In the Minds of Others →
Reading fiction can strengthen your social ties and even change your personality.
Bookworms rejoice.
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Neverending Math Equation by Sun Kil Moon
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Why do Scottish people like drinking so much?
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October 2011
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Strange World by Iron Maiden
Though ours is...
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EURion Constellation →
Secret pattern that’s present in virtually all modern money that makes it so you can’t photocopy it. Personally checked on all the Canadian bills. Crazy.
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The Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed You! Black...
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Dr. Seuss' NSFW Book
Hmmm, how relevant…
Seuss reportedly had misgivings about The Seven Lady Godivas before its publication; the drawing on the endpaper contains a small bucket of sap labeled “Bennett Cerf,” the name of Seuss’s publisher at Random House. Seuss, by calling Cerf a sap, was apparently implying that Cerf was being too nice in allowing the book to be published.[1] The initial...
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6 Reasons We're In Another 'Book-Burning' Period... →
This is truly messed up. Libraries—right now—likely even in Calgary—are destroying books by the hundreds. Of thousands. We’re not just talking Twilight, but apparently all sorts of old, potentially even treasured books. This is from Cracked, a comedy site, so the reading is lighthearted, but wow, I can’t really fathom how shocking of news this is to me.
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2. PUTTING LITTLE PIECES TOGETHER
When I design equipment, I take bits and pieces of other equipment I have seen in the past and combine them to create a new system. All my thinking is bottom-up instead of top-down. I find lots of little details and put them together to form concepts and theories.
Most people have to have a theory first, and then they try to make the data conform to it. My...
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September 2011
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I’ve Got It All (Most) by Modest Mouse
This...
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Sharp Dressed Man by ZZTop
Now here’s some...
OS X Lion's "Versions" has got to be the worst...
That is all.
August 2011
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