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		<title>Did I Mention that I Spit the Dopest Rhymes?</title>
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Dan and John, in high school and today. 10 years later, and we are pimper than ever.



My first foray into recording rap songs was back in 1995.  I was a sophomore in high school, and my buddies Chris and John and I got it into our heads that we would start a rap group, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hooray, Brussels Sprouts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year at Thanksgiving, we had some amazing Brussels sprouts in mustard sauce, and I emailed my mom this year to ask her if the Brussels sprouts would be making a repeat appearance. She confirmed that our Thanksgiving menu would indeed include Brussels sprouts, and I replied with a heartfelt &#8220;Hooray, Brussels sprouts!&#8221;
Her reply: &#8220;This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Is a Real Meat!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past year I&#8217;ve divided my time between northern California and New York City, and people sometimes ask me how I would characterize the difference between the two places. I usually talk about how intense I find New York compared to the Bay Area, how everything in Manhattan is noisy and fast-paced and high-energy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Fridays at Google</title>
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I spent last summer working for Google at their New York office.  Working at Google is great because it&#8217;s sort like being in school, in that you&#8217;re surrounded by lots of smart, creative people who are doing interesting projects&#8230; but also the pay is much better, and they give you free gourmet meals.











Google definitely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What you gon&#8217; do with all that donkey</title>
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I&#8217;m currently sitting at a small desk on the second floor of this building with my laptop plugged into a 10Mbps hub, surrounded by teenage Fassis using MSN Messenger to chat with their friends in a mixture of French, Moroccan Arabic, and emoticons.
















Fes is a city full of striking contrasts between old and new.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Already Tried a SIGQUIT&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that when I released my debut rap single about a year ago, I never considered &#8220;nerdcore&#8221; a legitimate musical genre.  I may have presented it as such in my blog post, in which I linked to other nerdy rappers whom I admired, but this was mostly because I&#8217;ve been indoctrinated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vodka Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you saw the Internet meme about vodka filtration that was circulating last year.  An enterprising group of young &#8220;scientists&#8221; purchased a bottle of extremely cheap vodka and a Brita filtration pitcher, and after pouring the vodka through the charcoal filter several times, they claimed that the result was indistinguishable from expensive &#8220;top shelf&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fukuro Irimasen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo is an extraordinarily clean city, a fact that is all the more striking once you realize that there are no public trash cans anywhere.  In Manhattan, there is a trash can on nearly every corner, but it is evident from the waste littering the streets of Midtown that the half-block of traveling required [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Selection of Splendid Shirts</title>
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The Japanese version of the Nintendo DS comes in colors not available in the US (turquoise blue, candy pink, and graphite black), so naturally I needed to buy one while I had the opportunity.  Then I needed some games to play on it, but I had to make sure that the games I bought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo Container Quartet</title>
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Tokyu Hands is my second favorite Tokyo retail chain.  It is narrowly edged out of first place by Don Quixote, which offers a comparably dazzling assortment of bizarre and outlandish merchandise, but is slightly cheaper and has a cuter logo.  Though I didn&#8217;t consider this a factor in my comparison, Don Quixote is [...]]]></description>
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