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Sherman Alexie pwns Stephen Colbert

Curtis Chen
October 31, 2008
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My favorite part is at the very end, when Colbert knows he’s been pwnd and can’t even summon a comeback: Just before D and I watched this, we had a brief discussion about how it made more sense for even…

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Depressing Quotation of the Day

Curtis Chen
October 30, 2008
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Thanks a lot, John Adams, and happy birthday to you too. ~CKL

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Where in the World?

Curtis Chen
October 29, 2008
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Propagating my friend Marko’s travel meme… Five really interesting/beautiful foreign places I’ve visited: British Columbia Niagara Falls Taiwan Mexicali Hawaii (that’s a “foreign place,” right, Cokie Roberts?) Five countries that are high up on my List of Places I Want…

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I Voted Yesterday.

Curtis Chen
October 28, 2008
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The government here in our new home conducts all elections by mail, so D and I have already cast our ballots. If you can vote early, I encourage you to do so. Yesterday, I helped decide legislation and appoint leaders…

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Truthful TV Title Cards

Curtis Chen
October 24, 2008
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From glark.org: See the original post for more. I want these on T-shirts. ~CKL

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Classic Trek FTW

Curtis Chen
October 24, 2008
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“Let’s put it this way: Kirk kissed a lot of ladies, and none of them were his sister.” — Stephanie Reid-Simons, “Star Trek ain’t Star Wars, J.J.!” from armchaircommentary.com I, too, have my doubts about next year’s Trek reboot. Abrams…

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jra’s thoughts redux

Curtis Chen
October 23, 2008
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My friend Jeff, late of MSF and now in the UK, recently started blogging again. He’s a smart geek who cares. You should read his stuff. ~CKL

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“Whether apostrophe or inverted comma…”

Curtis Chen
October 19, 2008
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“…there’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama.” ~CKL

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Charity Begins at Reading the Fine Print

Curtis Chen
October 12, 2008
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While preparing myself for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I browsed the nanowrimo.org web site and saw a “Get Sponsored!” link. Intrigued, I clicked, and was initially pretty happy: You can get friends and family to sponsor your novel-writing month…

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Pulp Direction

Curtis Chen
October 12, 2008
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Today is the birthday of Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage (“The Man of Bronze”). Writer’s Almanac describes his formula for writing a 6,000-word pulp story: Dent wrote more than a thousand pulp fiction stories, all with the same formula,…

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