January 2011
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Jan 29th
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This is a relatively short thought, but I wanted to have a public post and get reactions. There’s a part in Capitalism: A Love Story (that sadly I don’t have a link for - if you look for and find a clip, please do share) where they discuss how life was “back in the day” in regards to taxes and the economy - according to Wikipedia ” the past “golden days”...
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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MY NAME IN SHINING LIGHTS →
Well, if you consider your monitor a bunch of tiny shining lights (pixels) rapidly flashing in front of your eyes. Honestly even if you don’t know my last name, I’m the only Matt on the page, so scroll down a little and look for it.         This is what I was talking about a few weeks ago! The Language and Brain Laboratory is doing a lot of cool stuff and it seems like I’ll be...
Jan 16th
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Some random tidbits about my day/recent happenings: I mentioned a long time ago the gender differences between beginner fencers - in retrospect I should have emphasized that this was mainly a thing beginners did, because there’s no difference at all between the more experienced fencers. The girls are as competitive as the guys, if they’ve been doing it for at least a year. The update...
Jan 14th
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I went to fencing last night, and ended up going to bed around 10:30 - getting up at 6 am was hard for me this morning. I’m considering moving my alarm up to 6:30, because I don’t really need the extra time, but this is as good a time as any to make this post about how early I actually go to bed.         My schedule this semester is this: I have class at 8:30 AM from Monday until...
Jan 12th
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Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson
I bought a Kindle copy of Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson and, thanks to that, managed to finish the book after… a year and a half. Below is a conversation between two characters near the end of the book that I really enjoyed, and reminded me of Socrates style philosophical dialogue. I’m posting it because I liked the book enough to buy it twice. So, yeah, I liked it a lot.        ...
Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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How to read my tumblr
Over the holidays, literally half of my friends asked me about my “tumblr thing.” I’m glad that more than one person is actually reading it now, so to make sure everyone who finds my “tumblr thing” keeps reading, I’m going to lay out the three main ways to keep track of my new posts. The simple way: Bookmark the site. The convenient way: Make a Tumblr account...
Jan 2nd