January 2010
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Some Thoughts on Sexting
What makes Applebees Half-Off Appetizers so great is that I can enjoy the restaurant atmosphere with friends, while paying little to no money. Especially when these friends have a gift card. Over some delicious Sweet ‘n Spicy Boneless Buffalo Wings earlier in the week, I learned some really interesting facts about sexting. My good friend is a high school guidance counselor. For the purposes...
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Oh Renee
I write a post every day, then copy/paste it into my tumblr and debate for 20 minutes about whether I should hit publish, or not. Today the latter won.
I blame 24 and Renee Walker for being so lame.
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Unjustified
In the long past This American Life episode, The Devil on My Shoulder, Ira Glass begins with an anecdote about an inexplicable action he took when he was seven. He was watching a friend peddling a bicycle quickly down a hill in his direction. Glass had the flash of an idea to throw the large school binder in his hands in front of his rapidly approaching friend, as an improvised ramp. With no more...
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Blip, Blip, Blip-adlephia... (cough) Blippy.
Had a quick email thread with my brother yesterday I thought I’d share. I just signed up for Blippy yesterday - a service which will automatically post to a public stream whenever you make a purchase on a credit card tied to your Blippy account. So if I use my credit card to buy a DVD at Best Buy, or a haircut at Bangs (love that place), it’ll instantly show up in a stream for all of...
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Transactive Memory and the Difference Between...
Last summer I received a forwarded email from a friend of mine. This email contained a passionate note, or plea rather, from a young woman, let’s call her Liz, begging for her Facebook account to be reinstated. The night prior, as a desperate last minute attempt to complete a class assignment, Liz had sent hundreds of her Facebook friends messages containing a psychology survey. She had...