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- 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: December 2005
The Original “Data”
Ah, vacation time. The classes part of my first term at Princeton finished last week: I’ve got one final to study for and two term papers to write by the week of January 23rd. I’ve been seriously procrastinating on my … Continue reading
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“We don’t always know how it ends.”
A sad day: rest in peace, Leo.
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2005 Survived
I’ve resurfaced from the last week of classes here at Princeton to attend to my poor, neglected blog. I was so buried under work that I didn’t even notice a (now-corrected) typo on the title of the top entry. I … Continue reading
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The opposite of ironic
Truly fitting that, as WaPo reports, Mr Smoot himself actually works at the American National Standards Institute. Though I guess NIST would be slightly more apropos. LOTD: ‘Nother neat article: New York project hits wall. Really old wall.
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If you can’t stand by your statement, stop talking
Not much to report on the last week. Sunday I went into the city for a swing workshop (Chicklet was kind enough to let me park at SLC and drive me in). The instructors were Yuval and Nathalie: as usual … Continue reading
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Oh, Christmas Tree….Farm
Forgot one cool part of my Thanksgiving: I finally got to see my uncle’s Christmas tree farm. It has been tucked away in a mostly inaccessible part of the camp grounds for about five years now. We took a short … Continue reading
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