Sep 2015

Sep 1
Transition

I've learned to associate September with endings and beginnings. All these doors all of the sudden start closing, but somehow new ones open.

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Sep 8
That Heat

It's hotter in So Cal than in Baja California Sur right now.

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Sep 8
This Only Makes Sense If You Have a Good Sense of Statistics and Probability

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

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Sep 10
Jury Duty

My gut just made a sound like a thunderstorm.

Sep 10
Walking in L.A.

Recycling bins on every street corner but no trash cans in sight

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Sep 10
Pro-science, but anti-water-carrying for corporations

I am not anti-science by any means, but it seems clear to me that we shouldn't just take multinational corporations at their word that everything they do is perfectly safe and only in our best interests based solely on scientific studies that they funded because "Science!" and "Don't be a anti-science superstitious Luddite!" (And it would also be nice if regulatory bodies caught these kinds of adverse effects prospectively rather than retrospectively.)

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Sep 12
SI units FTW

…in the American system, the answer to “How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?” is “Go fuck yourself,” because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”

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Sep 12
Do It to Me One More Time/Locked Away

It's been bothering me all morning, but I think I finally figured out what the new song by R. City featuring Adam Levin sounds like.

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Sep 15
Hurricane Remnant

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Sep 21
Excessive Build Times

Generating… done in 1095.208 seconds

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Sep 22
Feeling Irritable

It would have been nice to have been the obvious choice, not just the least worst option.

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Sep 23
A Little Better

done in 426.177 seconds.

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Sep 24
No Change in Outcome

I don't understand this tendency to anguish over things that I can't do anything about anymore.

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Sep 28
The Opposite of Destiny

Is there a word for the opposite of destiny, to described seomthing where, no matter what you did, or how hard you tried, it was just never going to happen?

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Sep 29
Revisiting 8 Minutes

I am still ponderously going through all my old blog posts. I'm currently 7 years back, in the summer of 2008.

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