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Kids Today! (wherein I gripe about old people griping about young people)

I dread elections for several reasons, but the main sore point for me is that I end up having to watch old people slander me for a month and a half. Every election, pundits joyously proclaim that my generation isn’t interested in politics, and they cite all sorts of wonderful studies and crow about their [...]

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Winnipeg man gets away with murder

I’m so shocked by this story that I felt I had to post it in its entirety: Murder victim ‘inviting,’ so no jail Judge rules woman’s clothes, conduct ease blame on attacker A convicted murderer will not go to jail because a Manitoba judge says the victim sent signals that “death was in the air” [...]

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Howlin’ Tucker Plays the Blues

This is fascinating. A scientist should study this.

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TRON.

So today I want to talk about TRON: Legacy, but I am finding it difficult to find the words to explain why I love it so much. So I made a list instead, and I hope that at least one thing on the list will make you want to watch it and enjoy it as [...]

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Kids are assholes

I was waiting for the bus this morning when I felt stuff hitting me. Thought it was the wind at first but then I looked over just as some kid was preparing to throw something. I asked him if he was throwing things at me. He said he was aiming for the bus shelter. After [...]

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It starts with a Dalek and goes from there

This is the greatest thing that has ever happened, in the history of the world, anywhere, ever. Also, that’s an extremely deep V that he’s wearing.

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Things I Used to Know

I was going over old files on a computer I’m reformatting, and I found an astrophysics assignment I wrote in third year: “An HR Diagram was successfully obtained for both the M34 cluster and part of the NGC188 cluster. The main sequence and red giant branch of M34 is clearly visible, whereas the data for [...]

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