self-ownership: Dagny Taggart: I keep thinking of what they told us in school about the sun losing energy, growing colder each year. I remember wondering, then, what it would be like in the last days of the world. I think it would be … like this. Growing colder and things stopping. Hank Rearden: I never believed that story….
Who Wants a Nice Tall Glass of Coca-Cola’s Algorithmic Orange Juice?
theatlantic: Who Wants a Nice Tall Glass of Coca-Cola’s Algorithmic Orange Juice? Coca-Cola won’t say how it makes its best-selling Simply Orange orange juice, but one thing is for sure: It’s not so simple. A new investigation by Bloomberg Businessweek shows that the Coke-owned orange juice brand that’s billed as less processed version of Tropicana is in…
My music-listening habits from first semester of college, visualized
Music data by artist play from late Aug 2012 to early Jan 2013 As you can see, I was just steady listenin’ to my normal rap collection for a few months. Then BAM, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. That blew up my chart, way more than all my other music before. Got on some Common Market too…
I’m really split on NYC
I loved it when I was living there on my own, but towards the end I did get the feeling that it was starting to be too much for me. There is no escape. You have to accept the fact that you will always be surrounded by people and buildings and other man-made things. Still,…
macklemore macklemore macklemore macklemore macklemore macklemore macklemore & ryan lewis
Do you get it yet? This is good music for the world. This is music for making the world better. This is the music for the lowest point in your life. This can make you cry if you want to. Yeah you don’t need anything. If you make amazing music that touch the right emotions…
Interests in the new world
Here is Weibo’s “interest picker”. I believe there’s a lot that can be gleaned from this (or maybe you can learn Chinese from it?). I’m a little bit sad Horoscopes is an interest area, though I’m not sure if it’s bigger in China or America (who came up with it anyway?). Did you know Military…
I have set up some new recipes in IFTTT
So hopefully there will be some quality posts pushed over to this blog. 🙂 PS: ‘quality’ is not properly an adjective 🙁
I want to get better at writing
That’s one of the biggest things I wanted to learn when I came to college. Unfortunately it’s not happening because too many kids are forced into writing classes as a requirement and it’s too easy to treat writing as a blow-off. I just want to be able to… [see, if I were a better writer…
What am I doing wrong?
So after reading Steve Corona’s “College” blog post, I felt pretty bad for this guy living on $400 a week and sleeping on the floor to make ends meet. $400 a week is hardly enough to live comfortably, but I made it work. Like, I could pay for rent and food, but had to sleep…
The Best Tools for Group Scheduling
Scheduling a meeting with your friends or colleagues sucks. Fortunately, many web services have been built to fix this problem. Unfortunately, many of these web services for scheduling also suck. Doodle is the biggest in this space, so naturally AlternativeTo has a nice list of other group schedulers to try. I ended up finding three interesting contenders. Let’s…