It was hard to get motivated this morning — Fridays are typically low attendance days in the classroom, and I had worked hard to get today’s topic condensed down into a lot of digestible information (we’re talking about the rediscovery of Mendel, the biometrician and Mendelians arguing with each other). I had a presentation that […]

Every year, around this time, as the weather gets colder, we get an influx of mice moving into our house to find refuge. Our cat is useless — she makes a lot of noise, usually in the middle of the night, but she can never deliver the coup de grace. It seems I already have […]

The last time I was in Washington, we had cleaned out a lot of my parent’s old stuff, and I was leaving after having booked a real estate agent to sell off the property. There were boxes and bags of miscellaneous papers that were going to be thrown out or destroyed, and I scooped up […]

A term used mostly by [ice climbers] to describe the feeling of having your hands go numb only to come back to feeling with [extreme pain]. The terminology coming from when your hands are coming back to feeling you want to scream and [barf] at the same time.

When someone becomes [irritated], angry, or [cranky] when they haven't [eaten] and are hungry.

I’m designing for the web. The infinitely flexible web.

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The bots who shit in your sandbox are bigger, brassier, and better than ever!

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Why you can’t build another Apple with VC bucks.

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In the dying stages of innovation, companies at the top of the heap use their market power to maintain their high profits.

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My Glamorous Life: late to the pubescence party.

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David Lammy is on his first visit to the continent since he became foreign secretary.

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Probability of operating an alarm clock

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