Category: The Halcyon Days
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The Sociology of Mens Locker Rooms, a Satire
The three social traits analyzed here are: degree of nakedness, amount and subject matter of conversation, and relative degree of homophobia, which is correlated- but not mutually inclusive with degree of nakedness.
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Not Another Chernobyl
The still-developing situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after last week’s devastating earthquake is not, I repeat, is not another Chernobyl, despite what headline writers and news anchors would like to claim. I assert that, while this crisis hasn’t killed as many people, or leaked as much radiation or fissile material as the 1986…
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College Tuition: LOL! WTF?
Today, as I was looking at my Twitter feed, a message seized my attention. #UChicago University announces increases in education cost and financial aid for 2011-12 http://bit.ly/eVmpcY — UChicago News (@UChicagoNews) March 21, 2011 Apparently, according to the article, “The total cost of undergraduate education for the 2011-12 school year will be $55,416; of that…
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Yet Another Preview of “Why You Should Date a Man Who Reads”
Not only is this excerpt longer than the previous excerpt, it is a scanned image out of my notebook, which, if I’m not terribly mistaken, makes this a more authentic reading experience. This might also tip my hand a little bit, revealing that I am, in certain key capacities, very much like the reading man…
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Why being the creative type sucks, an ironical freeform pwm.
Question to ask somebody: When you think, do you do as I do and sing the words a little bit to a tune you do not know, nor to which you might not see the next bars of on the score? Do you like me swing low over the phrases of this poem, thrashing, gesticulating…
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A (Very Short) Preview of “You Should Date a Man Who Reads”
The reading man believes that if he says something so resonant, so brutally true, that if he could articulate the ineffable he could lead you to care. In so doing, caring, you’ll open up to him, and he to you.
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An Observation Regarding Truth & Competence
“Being labeled ‘correct’ or ‘true’ is very. uhhh, pre-postmodern. You know better than to make such judgments. Now, I suppose, one could only call someone ‘legitimate’. It’s not the same thing. So, it seems, my goal is not to be objectively, verifiably correct; instead, it suffices to merely speak and/or write as though what I’m…
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Some Quotes & The Halcyon Days Goes on Academic Lockdown
Such is the life of a student. In the coming 168 hours, I have to write more than 40 pages. One of the papers, about the future of the intellectual in the age of the blog, is worthy of publication on The Halcyon Days, but the others are exceedingly, brutally dry. They are, like certain…
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Winklevoss, v. [trans.]
1) [tech startup-specific] Coerce (someone) with technical expertise in computer science to build the startup idea of a non-technical founder, usually with a minimal ownership stake in the final product. : Tony has a really good idea for a web application, but will have to winklevoss a technical cofounder. 2) [general] Manipulate those with expertise to…