December 2012
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“It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something...”
– Steve Almond (via growing-orbits)
I think I’m in trouble.
November 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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“Before we get to that, let’s remember that the history of the sport...”
– Tommy Craggs on Lance Armstrong, doping, and the sport of cycling. Who knows if it’s true, it’s really funny. http://deadspin.com/5738218
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June 2012
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Art Store Weebs
weeaboo-stories:
A bit of backstory before I begin—I met my best friend, Li in first grade. She had just moved to America from China with her mom, Mai. Li was struggling with her English, so I helped her with it. Because I spent so much time with her, I picked up a good amount of Chinese. When Li and I started middle school, we both enrolled in Chinese classes, so I’m semi-fluent in Chinese....
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weeaboo stories: Speak Japanese for us! →
weeaboo-stories:
I’ll start off by introducing myself. My name is Grace. I am an American citizen, although my family is Japanese. My parents are quite traditional, and we live in our city’s Little Tokyo. My family-grandparents and parents-own a shop that sells Japanese trinkets like paper fans, kimonos, some…
What’s really sad is that for many of us Asians and Asian Americans who...
May 2012
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And from cheesy we go to a genuinely literate,...
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I have been listening to this extremely corny...
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April 2012
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Exchanging Wings
Another 2DT prompt piece, inspired by the depiction of angels in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire.
“It’s only eternity, Sachiel.” The way Metatron shrugged and smiled was infuriating. He knew as well as everyone else in the Host what the consequences were. “So you’ve never been tempted to do it, either?” I challenged him. He just laughed and sat back in his...
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Reunion Day
Another piece inspired by 2DTeleidoscope’s writing prompt. This is fiction.
“Jeez, you haven’t changed at all, Peter.” Rachel’s first words to me in ten years sounded more disappointed than surprised. But she held out her arms anyway: “Come here, you,” she said, and we embraced. “How are you, anyway?”
“Good, good,” I replied. “So what are you up to these days?” I caught a whiff of...
March 2012
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Strange Tempo
Prompted by 2DTeleidoscope’s writing challenge.
I was never good at keeping time. “You’re playing too fast,” my piano teacher would tell me as I ran through Bach’s “Minuet in G” for the fourth time, and she would wind up the metronome, set its weight to adagio, and let it go. Tock. Tock. Tock. Tock. If it was slow enough, I could follow the regimented...
January 2012
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The Long Limbo
Warning: contains a lot of whining (or whinging, if you are from the UK) about my not-quite-yet-over illness. I felt like I needed to get this out of my system, though, along with…other things. You are free to TL;DR all you want. :)
I’m still, technically, not yet healed from my long illness, though the fevers have now subsided to a splitting headache and the coughing down to a...
December 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Leave aside the politics and the specific example of a factory owner for a minute—the larger point Elizabeth Warren is making, that the success we enjoy is built on foundations others have helped to lay, is a deeply true one. It’s especially true of the things we often take for granted, like reliable infrastructure, public safety, etc. In human history, those were all hard-won achievements...
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September 11, 2011
When I was younger I traveled a quarter of a mile up to the top of the South Tower. It was cloudy then and the city loomed below, the view shrouded in gauze. I wrote in my class notebook, “Not much to see,” and we went down again.
Six years later the sky was silent and clear.
March 2011
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February 2011
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December 2010
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Post-Nanowrimo Notes
I promised “more to come” after I finished Nanowrimo 2010 the other day. Here it is: some thoughts on my process, experience, and possible plans for the future.
First, some background. The Breaks is a sequel to a nearly-finished and endlessly reworked teen angst novel I wrote a while ago called Soul Music. It features the same three main characters, albeit one primarily in absentia....
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November 2010
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October 2010
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The Social Network: Some Thoughts
As important as Facebook is for what we do at that other website I’m a part of, I’ve had it in for the site and Mark Zuckerberg since Anime Diet got DDoS’d by a clone army of rogue FB apps and I was unable to reach the admins to report the abuse. For a company that has broken down more privacy barriers than any past totalitarian government could have ever dreamed of, they sure...
Turned in my keys to the old apartment tonight, thus severing my last physical link to Fuller. It’s the end of the era. #bittersweetfeelings
September 2010
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My muscles are shaking after all the work my roommate and I did, but we made it: we are living in our new place. No Internet except iPhone until Tuesday though. But this much bigger, nicer place is so worth it.
Tomorrow: the unloading!
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Well, everything is now packed except the computers. (Funny how that’s always the last thing, isn’t it?) We made incredible progress in the last 24 hours, from the time we decided to move right away to now, where all we have to do is load everything on to the U-Haul tomorrow. It shows what determination and help can do.
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Packing Books
I started packing my books tonight and it reminded me that most of my library consists of theological books—a reminder that the place I leave this weekend is a seminary. The diploma and its cover are now buried under books about Christology and the relationship of friendship and discipleship, and the historical background of the New Testament. There was a time when those were the sorts of books...
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I’m moving this weekend! This is much earlier than planned, but it’s Labor Day weekend and it seemed best to do it as soon as possible. I plan to move everything on Sunday and Monday.
Dang it. Why is Angry Birds so much fun?
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Sorry, Fandroids: I’m returning my Android phone tomorrow. Not because I hate the platform—I just need the money at this time, and it really doesn’t add that much that my iPhone can’t do.
One day, though, I will find a way to continue playing with the platform as I learn mobile development. But for now, I return to my flawed but super-capable iPhone 4.
(If you can all do me a...
August 2010
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One Week With Android: A Report
I decided to try a Samsung Captivate last week, in order to give the Android OS a fair shake. (I’ve been a loyal iPhone user since its first iteration.) What do I think so far?
Things I Like Better in Android
Swype Input. This is the single greatest input method on a phone I’ve ever experienced. You just trace a path on the keyboard corresponding to the word you want. It Just Works...
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I just signed the lease (online!) for a 2 bedroom apartment. I’ll be moving out in about a month. Orange County, here I come!
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So I’m apartment shopping again, for the first time in 5 years. ApartmentRatings.com is my guide, and boy, are there tons of shady characters moonlighting as landlords if the plethora of negative reviews is to be believed. It’s very rare to see a good apartment complex with overall positive reviews that isn’t quite expensive—barely within my price range at best. But I really to...
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Hackers suck. #fb
