Apr 18, 2012

I Surrender

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It’s late and I’m up anyway, as usual. Probably had classes all day and will have classes the next day. My roommate is sitting at his computer, painted in the glow of his computer monitor. I note that his legs are crossed. I’m lying in bed just a few feet from his corner desk. Lucky for me, I’m able to sleep despite the light.

We’ve only been back to school a month or so since the summer break, during which time that same roommate broke up with his then girlfriend of some three or so years. He spent much of the rest of the summer agonizing over another girl, playing courtship deathmatch with some emo-riffic douche. As I turn over onto my side and adjust the covers to find a comfortable position, he’s flirting with said girl on MySpace.

Remember that site?

Apr 15, 2012

The Wealth Hoarding Fallacy, or Yet Another Zero-Sum Fallacy Derivative

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Cat lying in a pile of moneyA frequent theme in a lot of liberal rhetoric is this idea that a few select elite are unfairly gobbling up money and then sitting on piles of it like fat cats. Somehow, we're to automatically, if not intuitively, know that this behavior is pure evil. You get this sentiment most noticeably (and most recently) from the Occupy Wall Street movement types. And boy, does it get exasperating.

Apr 10, 2012

Anime Review: B Gata H Kei

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In the twenty-first century, we’ve nearly elevated the trope to an art form in of itself. What once was, for decades, used as a label of scorn and derision now has entire websites devoted to cataloging its many forms and instances. Are we celebrating them, enjoying them as though a leitmotif?

Apr 6, 2012

Lightly Touching on Music

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Something I don’t bring up much here is music. Partly that is due to my arbitrary scope of this blog. Mostly it is because I’ve found musical taste to be one of those intensely embarrassing subjects.

Apr 4, 2012

MEF 2 Preview - Making tabs or windows share parts and scope

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I love MEF, but it isn't without its shortcomings. In previous versions, a big shortcoming was it's lack of anything other than shared or non-shared parts. Either it returned a new instance each time a given type was needed, or everybody got the same one. There was no [simple] way to define scope.