December 2010
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I’ve been thinking about something for a little bit and couldn’t manage to explain it last night, so I’m going to attempt to work it out here. I’ll edit before posting until I’m sure it all makes sense and I haven’t exaggerated anything.
What I’ve been thinking about is how I’ve long had a kind of ideal image of Britt in my head, and that...
2010 Recap
I started my tumblr in April, so my 2010 recap is actually a recap of everything I’ve posted. Which is why it’s a good thing everyone suddenly wants to read my tumblr, because they can just read what’s on this list and that’ll be good. Mostly, this is all my long posts, so if I’ve missed anything you think is worth mentioning, let me know. I can do a recap of...
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BCN Christmas loot: Now with less candy
I’m not going to include the things like candy, body wash, and socks that I received - know that I received at least two of each of those in addition to everything else.
A two-way bus ticket to Toronto and two concert tickets (an early gift)
A good (i.e. expensive) electric razor
The World Ends With You (DS)
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light (DS)
Folklore (PS3)
The Sly Cooper...
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I’ve already posted that I’m with my grandparents for Christmas, and I ought to mention that Christmas is a religious event for them. Christmas, for me, has been purely commercial from a young age, without even getting into my lack of faith. They don’t mind going to Christmas mass - being stuck with far too many people in a hot, sweaty church listening to an excessively long...
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My vacation’s going pretty well. I’m catching up on my Read It Later list, I checked out a number of to-do list managers (spoiler: I realized I didn’t need any of them), and today I’m going to keep reading and start organizing music in my library. As far as what I’m reading, yesterday I read The Little Prince, a few Lifehacker articles, and a number of Click Nothing...
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What I've been up to: December edition
So I realize I haven’t been posting much, and there’s a very good reason for that: exams. I even had to skip fencing practice saturday because I wanted to do a bit more studying… I kinda spent too much time talking to people on thursday and friday.
But anyway! The past week has been like this: Linguistics exam on monday (took me about 40 minutes), tuesday was Applied...
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Man Cured of HIV →
This is pretty good news, assuming they can learn something from it and devise a better/easier/safer/whatever way to do it.
In other, much less life-saving news: I got Miranda IM up and running, and it is beautiful. I have a small tab on my desktop for it. My contact list appears when I mouse over it. It does everything I liked from MSN, and it does everything I liked from Xfire (including...
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Art of Manliness: How to Help a Friend with a...
Note: This article, sadly, isn’t on the Art of Manliness website. It’s great, though, and relevant to a discussion I was having earlier. Is it wrong to post one of the few book-exclusive Art of Manliness articles? Maybe, but I think it’ll be alright. If anything it should convince you to buy the book yourself.
One last thing - you’d be silly to think this only applies to...
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Exciting research opportunities abound!
I went to a lab fair for Cognitive Science, which means various lab directors from Carleton sat down to chat about their projects and where they needed assistants and things like that. So aside from learning a few names and getting my name out there, I’ve also gotten a position as a volunteer research assistant (i.e. no benefit for me unless we get published), and names of a few people with...
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Cotton candy perfume
Here’s a bit of psychology for you. There’s a structure in the brain, called the limbic system, which is (as far as my first year course is concerned) the basic location of emotions. Completely unrelated to the limbic system is the thalamus, a central station for your senses that passes information on to the other part of your brain. So, the signals processed by your eye go to the...
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