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If I’m going to post here, I’m going to have to scrape a little deeper in the barrel of my life.
Today I had a toasted sesame bagel with cream cheese and tomato for lunch. I have this almost every day for lunch. At Collegetown Bagel, it used to cost $1.98. I’d step up to the […]

Here is a list of things I have lost since moving into my apartment in November:

Maroon University of Chicago hooded sweatshirt (my favorite sweatshirt)
Blue dress shirt (my favorite blue dress shirt)
Two metal travel coffee mugs (one of which was my favorite, the other leaked)
The Office first season DVD

What the crap. I want my stuff back.

The Street’s A Grand Don’t Come for Free is an amazing record. One might classify it as underground British hip-hop, which is pretty damn cool if not a little pretentious to be caught listening to. The emotional openness of the album is reminiscent of Eminem, which is endearing. Unlike most albums, each song doesn’t stand […]

Here’s a letter I sent to the Coca-Cola company via their contact form:

I recently purchased a refrigerator 12-pack of Diet Coke. One of the cans was only one-third full and badly dented (though still sealed). Fearing that the defects are not merely quantitative and cosmetic, I won’t drink it.
As a frequent Diet Coke and Fresca […]

Yesterday I finished Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. It was decent. I was a little disappointed that the protagonist didn’t die in the end. I like my sci-fi morbid, like 1984. (Before you object that Winston Smith didn’t technically die in 1984, I’ll say that in the end he loved Big […]

Next week I graduate. (Yay!) Today I received four spam emails about how I could “G e t  A  U n i v e r s i t y  D e g r e e  O n l i n e “. If only they had told me four years ago…

Man arrested after hotel room is coated in Vaseline. Generally, hotel rooms in Binghamton may be described as “narse”. This one especially.

Gasp! Loyal readers, I am still here. I may have told you in person that a new design and new content was imminent. I was lying. But today Blogger launched a new design, and I’m eager to try it out. Maybe in a few days I’ll change stuff.
By the way, gradients are the new black. […]

Ruthie alerted me to the fact that I haven’t updated in a month. I know that’s lame. I’ve been working about 20 hours a week between Web Services and the Chicago Maroon. At the end of the day (with a full course load), I’m a little webbed out.
Anyway, I just had an experience that was […]

Ben brought a 30-pack of ironically cheap beer to Pete’s party last weekend. The beer doubled as a footrest for the Blue Line leg of the trip. Margaret took the photo. I’m wearing the Pumas, Ben’s sporting the Chucks.
Memo
From: Digestive system
To: Aaron
Do not eat burritos from 24-hour Mexican joints on consecutive nights.

Fox News threatened to sue Fox Broadcast Network (it’s sister company) over a parody in The Simpsons, Matt Groening revealed on Fresh Air.
Quoth Matt:

“We called their bluff because we didn’t think Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. We got away with it. But so now Fox has a new rule that we […]

Electronic Gaming Monthly has one of the best articles I’ve read in a while. Nine kids, ages 9-12, were forced to play classic videogames and give their commentary. I want nothing more to be a 9 to 12-year-old kid right about now.

”[Space Invaders] is nothing compared to Grand Theft Auto III, because you can’t steal […]

Could you please find more ways to annoy me? You seduced me with your shimmering silver finish and orb-shape design. My heart melted when you came over and hung out in my price range (unlike your other attractive friend, Apple Airport). You seemed pretty cool while you were in the box, but ever since you […]

Tucker Carlson, the young conservative host of CNN’s Crossfire, committed what Fox News called a “journalistic blunder“, but what anyone else would call a good prank. You suck Fox News!

I just watched the premiere of K Street on HBO. Some thoughts:
There are some TV shows that people watch even though they know they’re trash. I include The OC and America’s Next Top Model among such guilty pleasures. It’s so overdramatic and trivial, why would anyone care to watch? (Sex appeal.) K Street takes a […]

I went to NYC yesterday. I imitated Gothamist and saw Lichtenstein on the Roof.

Via Nora (weblog – fotolog)

James Surowiecki, editor of the New Yorker’s financial page, has an article on Slate defending the Pentagon’s proposed Policy Analysis Market.
The PAM project was canceled the day it was announced due to strong objections from the Senate and media criticism. But once pundits were able to reflect on the plan, it actually seems like a […]

Adam Safran might not be a shoe-in for the Democratic ticket, but at least he has a great campaign staff. There’s Jennifer, a 28-year-old receptionist at a veterinarian hospital. Olivia, a recent high school graduate, already runs her own talk show for politically active youth. My favorite is Christian Dylan. At just 11 years old, […]