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What kind of post-modernist are you? You are a Theory Slut. The true elite of the postmodernists, you collect avant-garde Indonesian hiphop compilations and eat journal articles for breakfast. You positively live for theory. It really doesn’t matter what kind, as long as the words are big and the paragraph breaks few and far between.

I’m writing again about the book Everything Bad is Good for You which has been blogged about on boingboing. I think I found a good example of what Steven Johnson is talking about–the TV show One Tree Hill. The content of the show is utterly ridiculous, but I do see how you can [...]

Interestingly enough, during the last semester I’ve come to realize that I am a post-modernist through and through…so these results are not suprising…

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You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels [...]

1. The worst part of going to movies today has got to be trailers. Here are the memorable trailers:
Fatastic Four — All I have to say is, which one of these men is playing Mr. Fantastic?

The Island — Looked like it might be interesting until it said: directed by Michael Bay.
Mr and Mrs [...]

I was feeling sick last week so, despite a nice comment on my blog encouraging me to go, I decided not to go to the Wifi Summit. I don’t regret not going. I probably would have felt miserable and, as can be expected, the event was well blogged.
I’m glad to see people talking [...]

So this is the first full week with more free days than “working” days. I put the working in quotes because I hope to be doing work on my free days as well. I’ll just have to decide myself what I’ll be doing.
So far today, I’ve been doing laundry, tidying, and other random [...]

I finished it about a week ago and have some final thoughts.
1. One of the things that interested me most was his talk about being more results oriented rather than ideology oriented with regards to policy. The difficulty, of course, is determining what the results of public policy actually are. A difficult [...]

I finished the book a couple weeks ago and I figured it would be good to write down some general impressions before I move on to another novel. So here they are, my random impressions:
1) It’s really not hard to see why so many like JSAMN. It’s rare that I read a very [...]

I was inspired to try out the gimp yesterday, mostly because of this painting that was made available as a computer background by boston.com. This was the result:

Yeah, it’s rough. But not bad for my first time out.

The fund-raising breakfast for Roxbury Presbyterian Church’s capital campain was covered in Adrian Walker’s column in the Globe today. It wasn’t hard for anyone who knew what was happening to see that something special was going on there and it’s nice to see the press picking up some real news for a change. [...]