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From Twitter 02-08-2010 [Feb. 9th, 2010|02:05 am]

  • 19:39:48: 'bout done with this walk. Another mile or so. Wish we could sports training montage back to the house.

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From Twitter 02-06-2010 [Feb. 7th, 2010|02:06 am]

  • 15:17:01: We just took a walk on the beach. Lots of ice from the waves. It was cold. http://twitpic.com/11qcqy
  • 21:11:19: @sarianna Is no one, seriously, messaging you about Gatsby? It's one of my favorite books.
  • 22:58:12: Reading /Work Hard. Be Nice./ Austin got it for me. I've not read enough to have an opinion but generally favor teachers trying not to suck

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From Twitter 02-05-2010 [Feb. 6th, 2010|02:06 am]

  • 18:16:27: So i remember to look at this. RT @BillGates: Incredible work at KIPP charter schools. GatesNotes book review- http://bit.ly/8waet4

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From Twitter 02-03-2010 [Feb. 4th, 2010|02:05 am]

  • 23:17:11: Badass and appropriate: http://bit.ly/bLfjvK Ron Erickson, President of Hocking College camps in dorm where racial violence was threatened.

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From Twitter 02-01-2010 [Feb. 2nd, 2010|02:05 am]

  • 18:17:18: ftp hate. How many times and for how many hours have I tried to transfer this directory?

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on interviewing and speaking [Feb. 1st, 2010|01:41 pm]
Bargh. Stupid brain. Because I cannot go a day without writing something tedious about school, here is something about admissions interviews. This is just as good for job interviews, presentations, and public speaking engagements.

I am never nervous about interviews. I see people stress and over-prepare and freak out but that is all unnecessary. The interviewer wants to like you. Forget all about having made it past rounds of resume culling and committee reviews. Those are valid reasons to be confident but they are needlessly cerebral. Fundamentally, the interviewer wants to accept you or hire you or whatever because, if they didn't, they would be admitting to themselves that they are wasting their time and their lives. Nobody likes futility. The foundational assumption at the start of every interview is that something great could come of it.

The same rule applies to public speaking. I love public speaking because, by and large, people want to like you. Nobody wants to believe that they are about to waste an hour of their life listening to some idiot ramble on about tedious bullshit. In order to tolerate even being in the same room with you, every member of the audience has rationalized to themselves that they are going to benefit in some way from listening to you speak.

You don't have to sell the unsold. All you have to do is give a room full of desperate people some crumb of justification for believing that their lives, in that moment, don't suck.
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From Twitter 01-30-2010 [Jan. 31st, 2010|02:05 am]

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From Twitter 01-29-2010 [Jan. 30th, 2010|02:05 am]


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From Twitter 01-28-2010 [Jan. 29th, 2010|02:06 am]


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From Twitter 01-27-2010 [Jan. 28th, 2010|02:06 am]


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From Twitter 01-26-2010 [Jan. 27th, 2010|02:05 am]


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From Twitter 01-25-2010 [Jan. 26th, 2010|02:05 am]


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From Twitter 01-24-2010 [Jan. 25th, 2010|02:06 am]

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From Twitter 01-23-2010 [Jan. 24th, 2010|02:07 am]


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From Twitter 01-22-2010 [Jan. 23rd, 2010|02:07 am]

  • 11:45:06: To everyone I know in Easthampton and Amherst, your representative, John Olver, opposes healthcare reform. Call him! (202) 225-5335
  • 11:48:13: To everyone I know in Fall River and Attleboro, your representative, Jim McGovern, opposes healthcare reform. Call him! (202) 225-6101
  • 11:50:41: Newton, New Bedford, Foxbororough, your representative, Barney Frank, opposes healthcare reform. Call him! (202) 225-5931
  • 11:54:50: Northampton, you smug bastards, you should call John Olver too.
  • 11:57:13: Who else sucks? Do you live anywhere near Scituate? Call Bill Delahunt because he, too, opposes healthcare reform. (202) 225-3111
  • 12:00:56: Fancypants Bostonians should call Mike Capuano at (202) 225-5111 because he, too, stands in the way of healthcare reform.
  • 12:12:13: All of these useless democrats oppose healthcare reform without a public option. Tell them this bill is better than no bill.
  • 15:21:06: RT @nprnews Bondsman Lobby Targets Pretrial Release Programs http://su.pr/3Ct10V - If you need another thing to angry up the blood this week
  • 16:06:45: "This is not just a threat to democracy; it’s a threat to sovereignty." http://bit.ly/6M3hKs
  • 16:39:32: ironic url unshortening tiemz: http://vb.ly/1d

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From Twitter 01-20-2010 [Jan. 21st, 2010|02:07 am]

  • 02:26:06: I often think that I would enjoy working in politics and, really, I know that would be true right up until I dropped dead of a heart attack.
  • 13:29:24: I wish I had LimeSurvey 2 to code against.
  • 15:00:05: I can remember a time in my life when my personal and professional goals were simple enough that I could accomplish one of them in a week.
  • 15:02:46: Now intermediate goals are measured in years and overarching objectives last decades.
  • 15:04:25: It is important to still feel satisfied at accomplishing the week-sized goals while focusing on the year-sized ones.
  • 15:32:35: Growing glaciers is amazing! http://bit.ly/6J6cNu

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look at the dot [Jan. 21st, 2010|01:12 am]

look at the dot, originally uploaded by Austin ampersand Zak.

I made Austin look at this dot: http://www.ted.com/talks/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see.html

and Austin got a headache so I made Austin look at this dot.

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From Twitter 01-19-2010 [Jan. 20th, 2010|02:06 am]

  • 03:09:20: Vote, you fuckers.
  • 11:04:25: @sarianna to vote? You can do it by going to the town hall to register and then filing a provisional ballot at your polling place. I think.
  • 11:06:34: Wouldn't want to lose control with only 59 seats. RT @nprnews: MA Voters Go To Polls; Dems Could Lose Control Of Senate http://su.pr/45Pwmk
  • 15:33:26: Good turnout in Easthampton. Vote, dammit. It's shameful that we're this close to electing a backwards bigot.
  • 22:38:58: Pathetic.

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From Twitter 01-17-2010 [Jan. 18th, 2010|02:07 am]

  • 16:26:37: We sidetracked from our usual trail today to walk on a big frozen pond. http://twitpic.com/yjksl
  • 16:55:15: Damned teenie hot topic goths smoking up my walking trail with their alternacigarettes. Piss off somewhere I don't want to breathe.
  • 21:42:53: Just took a PHPoop. Coding on iPhone on toilet is awesome.

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From Twitter 01-13-2010 [Jan. 14th, 2010|02:07 am]

  • 13:23:28: This morning, I beat together something exceedingly bad and dumb. It makes me feel ugly on the inside. http://xkcd.com/664/
  • 13:32:26: Liberal arts college rankings: 3 of the top 6 are right here in the valley. 4 of the top 100 if you count Hampshire. http://bit.ly/7w31LB
  • 13:37:42: The rank is by social impact. "[useless project] for Social Change" is a running joke at Hampshire but I'm still surprised we did so poorly.
  • 13:40:50: My guess would be that students at Hampshire are interested in social impact but are not challenged to optimize their projects to that end.
  • 15:23:20: It's a Thoreau kind of day: "Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises?"

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