In a turn of events that couldn’t even pass for believable fiction, the state of Minnesota has decided to bring the pimp hand down on awesome online education site Coursera for daring to offer Minnesota residents (and everyone else in the world) world-class educational resources, online, for free. The horror! I’m so jaded at this [...]
Sunday, September 9, 2012
You know what is annoying? People who are super successful giving advice. Like those are the people whose advice will be of any use. “I went to school and I worked very hard, and then I went to college and I worked very hard there too, and I didn’t acquire any debt. Then I graduated, [...]
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
I’m sitting here trying to write and some French douchebag is conducting his business right next to me. By “conducting his business” I mean that for the last ten minutes he’s been engaged in a series of phone conversations. As I type this, he’s scheduling a lunch with somebody, or inviting somebody to an already-scheduled [...]
Chick and dude walk into cafe this morning, about an hour ago. Since then the chick has been on the phone that entire time. Why the fuck do you bother coming here if this is your interaction? And it’s not some important business call that came through unexpectedly; it’s just normal blabbering about nothing. The [...]
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
I’m having this thing lately where I read something so delightful I have to run and post it before I even finish the article. Apparently, not trying to slaughter your girlfriend is insufficient qualification for public office, even in Illinois, and even at a time when Sarah Palin is considered a serious presidential contender. From [...]
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Can you wish you had written something even when it’s taking the piss out of you? Yes, apparently: Also, global warming? Total effing letdown. Americans are no longer believing in it. Do you know why? Not because the mountains of scientific proof aren’t there. Not because it’s not happening. But because it’s not yet happening [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
I know this is utter snobbery, but I don’t care. If someone wants to take me to task for it, that’s fine. But: I remember when, if you went to a cafe, it was filled with weirdos and creative people — wannabe writers, idiot philosophers, the occasional friends catching up or couples on a date. [...]
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
I’ve been trying not to talk about health care lately, because the whole affair just gets me so worked up. When I imagine shoddy levels of care, overrun by government bureaucrats, like the sort they have to deal with in Europe: Unfortunately for celiac patients, the extra cost of a special diet is not reimbursed [...]
Every day now I get several phone calls from this same 866 exchange. If I answer a moment will pass in silence, and then a shitty text-to-speech engine will tell me that it is “Vision!” calling. Sometimes it will say it’s calling for “Shane Robershin.” All standard so far. But instead of then connecting me [...]
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I just barely did not send this email to Indiana University, where I need to apply for a guest account. Maybe, just maybe, the random tech idiot who I pissed off would decide to make my life difficult. So instead I post it here, where it still might make my life difficult, but where the [...]