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Dating Advice
If you’re a woman interested in persuading a man that you’re wife material, it might be best to avoid mentioning that you’ve read (or, worse, liked) “Eat Pray Love“. The whole celebration-of-the-breaking-of-commitments thing probably isn’t the message you want to … Continue reading
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Foreign Expressions
The Chinese (near?) equivalent to “casting pearls before swine” is “playing music to the cows”. I think it’s cute.
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NSURL, Trailing Slashes, and OAuth
Here’s a surprisingly important note from the documentation for the NSURL class’ path method: Return Value The path of the URL, unescaped with the stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: method. If the receiver does not conform to RFC 1808, returns nil. If this URL … Continue reading
Pacquiao/Mosley
Well, Pacquiao vs. Mosley is scheduled for 7 May. When I first thought about this fight (after Mayweather/Mosley), I thought it would be an easy win for Mosley; even after he was out-boxed by Mayweather, I figured that Mosley was … Continue reading
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Happy Things
The blog’s been getting a little grumpy lately, so, today, just a list of a few things and people that I like: Glass backlights on convertibles. I think they add a little bit to the cost of the car, but … Continue reading
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Discussion
Today I was reminded that there are two ways to use one’s intelligence during a discussion: One can try to ascertain the truth, or one can try to win the argument. People who routinely engage in the latter are boring, … Continue reading
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Atheists
The least charming aspect of atheism is the smug certainty of many of its adherents that their particular belief system[1] is indicative of, or due to, superior intelligence. It’s a general human tendency to pat oneself on the back for … Continue reading
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