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Today one of my Brainfood students proclaimed her love for Train. My immediate response was of course to ask if she’d seen the lead singer’s sequin pants on the AMA’s (she had) and to start singing that catchy “Hey, Soul Sister” song. After belting out the chorus I asked if she liked Train’s old stuff like “Meet Virginia” and “Drops of Jupiter.” She’d never heard them. Neither had any of the...

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Nov 30th

Google Beatboxing

Google Translate’s pronunciations may or may not impress you, but the thing’s got some beatboxing skills.Reddit user harrichr notes a fun result: 1) Go to Google Translate 2) Set the translator to translate German to German 3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch 4) Click “listen” 5) Be amazed...

Nov 29th

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Nov 23rd

Houston Gets $10 Million Private EV Charging... →

unconsumption: Via smartercities: The network is being installed by a private firm, NRG Energy. By the end of 2011, they hope to have between 50 and 150 public charging stations installed. This is just in time for the scheduled rollout of the Ford Focus Electric. The charging stations will be placed in business districts, supermarkets, by condos and apartments, and in other conspicuous...

Nov 23rd

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Everything about the American Music Awards has made me very uncomfortable. T.Swift has bangs. Justin Bieber has won two awards. One of the members of Muse just thanked Charles Darwin in his acceptance speech. The lead singer of Train is wearing sequin pants. The Gobblepalooza Old Navy ads are so bizarro-world. ABC probably shouldn’t be allowed to produce award shows. Update: New Kids on the...

Nov 22nd

I wear my cowboy boots a lot, but tonight I realized their max potential. With a purseless, pocketless outfit they are the perfect place to stow my phone and wallet!

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Nov 18th

File this under "reasons why I love computer...

Yesterday was my professor’s favorite day of teaching C++. There’s some nerdy programming context that is key to the joke. We just shifted to learning about object-oriented programming and have spent the past three classes learning about “classes”. Classes have public and private parts. Usually, the “private” parts are off limits, but there’s a special...

Nov 18th