February 2011
27 posts
Статья о Tumblr в Википедии
russian:
На досуге тут исправил несправедливость - написал в русскую Википедию статью о Tumblr. По ходу сам узнал немало интересной информации.
Приглашаю всех почитать, дополнить статью, и возможно, исправить какие-то ошибки.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr
There is a burgeoning russkiy community in the tumbleverse. Watch out, elljay.
January 2011
51 posts
“Jordan’s research doesn’t look at Facebook explicitly, but if his...”
– I could rant on this for a while.
“I wasn’t in the mood for artificial eggs. I had real ones as a kid…...”
“Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and...”
– Mindfulness in Plain English, Gunaratana
“Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make...”
– The study was controlled, but I’m not familiar with the details of the control (which can make all the difference). I did meditate today and feel significantly calmer and focused.
“[Convicted murderer and programmer Hans Reiser] says in his letter he’d...”
– What a saint!
Don’t Break The Chain
Pick a goal.
Mark off the days on which you work toward that goal.
Use your chain of marked off days as a motivator.
I have been trying out this tool the past two weeks. It hasn’t been working well.
Fantastic browser extension for auto loading... →
“No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and...”
– Ted Kaczynski on prison life. The first sentence sounds to me like it could apply to loneliness or depression as well.
“The Journal basically strung together the most controversial sections of the...”
– Author and Yale Law professor Amy Chua on “her” WSJ article, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”. Ah, newspaper editors.
“On their 2008 album CSI:Ambleside, the British band Half Man Half Biscuit...”
– I used to play on Yahoo Chess but got sick of waiting forever for someone to join my table. Chess.com and Free Internet Chess Server are both much more reliable in setting up games quickly with decent opponents.
“A Potsdam student was briefly detained last summer while doing turtle research...”
– You must show your immigration papers if requested, but you have the right to remain silent and to refuse to consent to a search of yourself, regardless of your immigration or citizenship status. The ACLU bust card contains this and other info on your rights when interacting with police or...
Watch
“If a Chinese child gets a B—which would never happen—there would first be a...”
– My parents were Korean, but this is exactly how it worked. Author is married to a jewish guy who sounds like a reasonable father. I wonder why she didn’t marry someone who’d fill the role of distant, rule-setting asian father. Her kids are only getting half the experience.
“Turbulence has been the victim of many colorful descriptions over the years,...”
– Direct Numerical Simulation: A Tool in Turbulence Research; Parviz Moin, Krishnan Mahesh; Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University.
“I thought that if I got into to a good college, or a good grad school, or lost...”
– Suicide note excerpt from Princeton computer science doctoral student Bill Zeller (27). The note is heavy reading, understandably, but very insightful on geek misery.
Heat has been fixed in my house! Feels like California in here. Can sleep without two comforters and two blankets now.
“And that right there is what you call a rhetorical ellipsis, the cheapest device...”
– The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway. Thus far, a strange book.
“Here’s how a lemon-ricotta omelette in an eggshell looks. This filling was...”
– “Making omelettes inside of eggshells,” says it all.
“It’s not like most people sit around thinking, gee, wish my partner slept...”
“A man walks into a room. Let’s say he’s 50-ish, greying, slightly...”
– Why western authors are in love with Mother Russia