Bookroll
- Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel
- David Rakoff

- 3 wds: Rhythmic Raw Rakoff
- The Signal and the Noise
- Nate Silver

- 3 wds: accessible, insightful, broad
- The Casual Vacancy
- J.K. Rowling

- 3 wds: captivating, political, believable
- The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War against al-Qaeda
- Neil Shah

- 3 wds: Captivating, informative, redacted
- The Blank Slate
- Steven Pinker

- 3 wds: Rant, lengthy, correct
- The Trial
- Franz Kafka

- 3 wds: Disheartening, linear, skippable
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Monthly Archives: November 2003
This one might stick
From the Concord Monitor: “Someone’s got to take the graveyard shift, and today it’s us,” said Lex Paulson, the Dean college outreach coordinator. Paulson, 23, manned the Dean office during the afternoon. Dean computer guru Aaron “Data” Strauss checked in … Continue reading
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Going by the Book
Sunday night the Tech Team and other geeks traveled to Concord to watch the extended edition DVD of The Two Towers (I highly recommend watching it). I drove to show off my new Prius and on the way back, just … Continue reading
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Six Pack
Eid Mubarak! Why is it that whenever I do something really nice for someone they say “I owe you a six pack?” Do they think I need to get drunk? Because, well, I don’t. They should offer me something useful–like … Continue reading
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Date: Bad Conversion
Find a linux/unix/etc prompt (though some only work on MIT’s athena) and type in these commands: got a light? cat “food in cans” If I had a ( for every $ Bush spent on Iraq, what would I have? look … Continue reading
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A Newwwww Car!
Rod Roddy: A 2004 Prius with advanced hybrid technology that regenerates energy when you coast or brake. New “stealth mode” enables zero engine noise when you stop at an intersection. Environmentally friendly partial-zero emissions and up to 60 miles to … Continue reading
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Biggest Insult Ever
This was in the October 2nd LA Times: “Transparency is the Achilles’ heel” of CAPPS, letting attackers “reverse engineer” the system, wrote Samidh Chakrabarti and Aaron Strauss, students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, whose computer science … Continue reading
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We are Dean
This was on the blog a few days ago: We are the grassroots revolution. We are outside the beltway. We are out in the streets, knocking on doors. We are campaign finance reform giving 20 bucks a pop and then … Continue reading
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socialite me?
I did well this weekend! Three social activities in a row. First, Friday night: Manchester Monarchs hockey! We definitely sent, as one banner read, the Hartford Wolfpack packing. 5-2 victory though I was disturbed by the amount of violence. Do … Continue reading
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Beaver sports, baby!
ESPN predicts that MIT will be the 86th team to join the ACC, after all “who better to work out the scheduling.”
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Too far
I made a promise to eat dinner today, so I got a ride to Subway. Unfortuantely the Subway by our office serves neither Veggie Max’s nor Garden Patty subs; thus, I had to settle (yes, enjanerd, settle) for a Veggie … Continue reading
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