An interesting demographic study into the two behemoths of social networking. Some thoughts: I had no idea that twitter was so big amongst college students. Also twitter’s status as a platform for social interaction (rather than just a front end) is evident in that 52% of users  post to their twitter everyday, despite only 27% [...]

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Came across this song by the Decemberists which is about an old Japanese tale. Thought it was a good song (NPR picked the album as #1 in 2006) and even better story behind. Story is included below the player. “It’s a story about a peasant in rural Japan who finds a wounded crane on an [...]

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Recently I had an interesting discussion with a friend about their coworker who is engaging in a number of borderline unacceptable behaviors. It led to a funny argument about whether this person’s actions were odd or just flat-out wrong. Here are the charges: – Washing his face in the company kitchen sink It’s all good [...]

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Almost every major city has a stereotyped flaw(s). New Yorkers are rude and always in a hurry. London has crap weather and food. Seattle is always rainy and depressed. Las Vegas is nothing but debauchery. Los Angeles traffic sucks. Regardless of the truth, these are the generally held negative perceptions of these cities. Well, the [...]

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Everyone knows that the quickest way to someone’s heart is sending them a picture of a cute baby animal. But it seems like one site isn’t impressed with that approach. F*** You Penguin is a feisty site which has the tagline, “A blog where I tell cute animals what’s what.” The concept is hilarious despite [...]

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Online Dating is becoming very popular nowadays and with this guy’s skills it’s really no wonder. I especially like his Winnie the Pooh spelling of ‘hunny’. This is a real match.com message. Get ready to be wooed: Hey Dear How re u doin princess i most say u really look charming hunny i cant ….believe [...]

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So we haven’t posted in 2 weeks and that’s no good. This one is defintely out of left field…much like every other post. Hopefully, this one will make up for the lost time. Randy Pausch was a professor at both University of Virginia and Carnegie Mellon who died July 25th 2008 of pancreatic cancer. He [...]

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One day while driving a few colleagues to lunch at Ramenya on Olympic Blvd, one of my passengers discovered a cell phone under one of the seats. The phone wasn’t mine and although I had a pretty good idea whose phone it was, I gave her permission to look through the phone and discover the owner. [...]

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Backing up and sharing files is too easy with the Microsoft Skydrive and the Gspace Firefox Add-on. These online storage solutions have been around for some time, but recently the storage space has grown quite a bit (to 5 GB) and since they’re free,  it’s time to sign up.   Put photo albums, music, and movies online so that [...]

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Mammoth Mountain Stats: Top Elevation: 11,053 ft Bottom Elevation: 7,953 ft Vertical Rise: 3,100 ft Area Size: 3,500 acres Longest Run: 3 miles Terrain Park: Yes Halfpipe: Yes Mammoth is the real deal. It’s a huge mountain with every type of terrain. Cliffs, jumps, rails, trees, steeps, jibs, spines, and slaloms are all there. Plus, [...]

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