memories for Jun 5

2015

2015 Jun 5
Love in the Time of the Internet

While I did meet ミA彡 through a dating app, I didn't really use dating apps for anything more than remote idle amusement. (As Aziz Ansari puts it, "You can stand in line at the grocery store and swipe through 60 people’s faces on Tinder while you wait to buy hamburger buns.") Aside from the MySpace era (i.e., the ancient days of yore), I have never gone on a date with anyone else IRL after meeting them online. But, to be honest, in general, I have never really dated.

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2008

2008 Jun 5
to a crisp

I am thinking that 26 years of formal education can really burn a guy out. I'm like beyond slap-happy. I'm this close to raving lunacy.

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2007

2007 Jun 5
on gods and spirits

(revised from ”Re: response to victor & malaki)

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2007 Jun 5
binding energy

(revised from ”Cultural Origin of Dualism?”)

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2007 Jun 5
from phoenicia to austronesia?

(revised from ”The meaning of syllables”)

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2006

2006 Jun 5
less portentious than that

OK, I didn’t mean to make my last post sound ominous. Maybe it’s because tomorrow is June 6. (You know, 6/6/06. I don’t think the Devil really gives a damn about the vagaries of the Julian and Gregorian calendars, so it probably doesn’t have any significance to him, although it may very well have significance to some Satanist or nihilistic terrorists a la Columbine.)

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2006 Jun 5
intuition ain’t all it’s cracked up to be

I wonder if maybe the main reason why guys don’t listen to their sixth sense is the fact that most of the time it tells us completely freaky stuff over which we have no control over.

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2006 Jun 5
forgiveness is not forgetting

I was inspired by this meditation on racism, which describes the well known evils of over-generalization.

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2003

2003 Jun 5
Voices in My Head

Bits and pieces of me keep passing out. Random quotes and song lyrics that happen to be very appropriate commentary on my life. And, once again, I need to take a break, but, once again, I am probably not going to.

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2001

2001 Jun 5
I Love L.A.

Thoughts about Los Angeles. (To live and die in L.A.? Well, maybe….)

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