"To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."
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"In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."
Sunday, December 30, 2007
My Life as a Game
I had a dream during this morning's fitful sleep.
We were on a beach discussing strategies for a game. "I know!" I said, "We have to get two of them to hook up!" "Them" referred to two of our mutual friends, and the idea of this strategy was to simultaneously improve the "relationship" score of two friends at once. The game we were playing was a mutant hybrid of HSX, Facebook, and Sims. Each person is a stock whose price is determined by his or her success in life, made up of scores such as "relationship," "career," and "health." Each player then maintains a portfolio of "friends" to invest it. The objective of the game: make money.
In my woozy, jarred-awake state, I briefly contemplated starting such a game. And then I realized, what was this but the game of life?
We were on a beach discussing strategies for a game. "I know!" I said, "We have to get two of them to hook up!" "Them" referred to two of our mutual friends, and the idea of this strategy was to simultaneously improve the "relationship" score of two friends at once. The game we were playing was a mutant hybrid of HSX, Facebook, and Sims. Each person is a stock whose price is determined by his or her success in life, made up of scores such as "relationship," "career," and "health." Each player then maintains a portfolio of "friends" to invest it. The objective of the game: make money.
In my woozy, jarred-awake state, I briefly contemplated starting such a game. And then I realized, what was this but the game of life?
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Thursday, December 27, 2007
It only takes 17 muscles...
A hobo made me smile today. He carried a sign that said, "If you don't have spare change, please smile."
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Geek Love
What is it like writing about a school you've never been to?
It's 2 AM, and I'm knee-deep in browser tads and paper trying to pull together some grand thesis about the file-sharing culture at Cornell. Somewhere in my research, I found a stats page for the hub chat and saw this:
Ted talks! Squee! So college students nerdy enough to watch TED talks are also nerdy enough to bw the most prolific all time user on a hub chat. Do I consider myself in good company?
It's 2 AM, and I'm knee-deep in browser tads and paper trying to pull together some grand thesis about the file-sharing culture at Cornell. Somewhere in my research, I found a stats page for the hub chat and saw this:
| nick | non- consecutive lines | delta lines | % of total | lines | letters/ lines | random message | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashen | 7331 | 6 | 10.14 | 19493 | 25 | "did you look at the ted talks?" |
Ted talks! Squee! So college students nerdy enough to watch TED talks are also nerdy enough to bw the most prolific all time user on a hub chat. Do I consider myself in good company?
Thursday, December 13, 2007
the last three things in my brain
1. Judgmental people are the worst hypocrites.
2. Explain to me this phenomenon: Asian guys and break dancing.
3. Green, Gauss & Stokes. Conrad. Resnais. Please just go away so I can enjoy my winter break.
2. Explain to me this phenomenon: Asian guys and break dancing.
3. Green, Gauss & Stokes. Conrad. Resnais. Please just go away so I can enjoy my winter break.
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