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Archive for December, 2007

Adopting Twitter

Posted by Josh in December 30th, 2007  
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Posted in: Blogcasts and Blogs     

I didn’t think I’d do it but I did. Twitter. Everyone’s talking about it. Everyone’s doing it. Well, not everyone but a shitload of people. What are you doing now? That’s what you’re supposed to be twittering about. Right now. The mundanities. Reading a book. [...]

“Licking the Earth:” How to Behave Online Playing Call of Duty 4

Posted by Josh in December 29th, 2007  
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Posted in: Video Games     Tags: , , ,

It’s hard to give moral lessons about playing a game where you are charged with slaughtering avatars of random individuals across the globe. Even in simulated death, there must be honor amongst murderers.
On December 11th, 2007; 19-year-old Allieu Shaw, an FSU student, made specific threats against his college peers while chatting online playing COD4. [...]

For Christmas this Year, I Got…A Head Wound

Posted by Josh in December 25th, 2007  
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Posted in: Personal     

400 fucking pounds! That’s what I thought as I dragged the two black garbage bags with pull strings across the frosted lawn. These bags weigh 400 fucking pounds each!
It’s funny the things parents put themselves through in the name of Christmas. I can remember my mother hauling me over hell’s backlot growing [...]

Harvard’s Christmas Present to the World

Posted by Josh in December 24th, 2007  
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Want to go to Harvard for free?
The Ivy League is taking a big risk with their new financial package for middle and lower class families but they are gambling on some solid principles of social bootstrap pulling.

Families that earn $120,000 to $150,000 annually would have their costs reduced 50%, instead paying 10% of their annual [...]

“Buzzards Gotta Eat, Same As Worms:” The End of Two Eras

Posted by Josh in December 22nd, 2007  
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Posted in: History, Politics     Tags: , , , , , ,

Two big eras came to an end this week.
First, the oldest and last living World War I veteran is dead at 109. This was perhaps the most ridiculous war ever fought yet its importance in the unfolding of the 20th Century cannot be overstated. Let’s take a cursory glance:

Germany would not have [...]

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