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Tips for College Life

Always wear the suit Always shave (except in November) Never put all your underwear in the laundry at once You can (probably) type much faster than you can write Never forget your laptop’s power cord Never forget deodorant Sniff test your clothes, it saves money Grab the belt

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Pepperdine University

I am now about a month into school at Pepperdine University, where I am a Political Science and Philosophy double major. The campus here is absolutely amazing, as is the community. Almost everyone at Pepperdine actually wants to be here over anywhere else, and it makes for incredibly nice, happy people. I have a course [...]

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Twittered!

As my (free) host (FreeHostia) doesn’t allow outbound connections, I was never able to import my tweets from @AndSchwa. As a remedy for now, (as I love to microblog), here is a quoted list of the best things I’ve written lately (hand imported): My best thoughts come to me in the shower. Others may sing [...]

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Religion

To quote Salman Khan of the Khan Academy on religion: If you believe in trying to make the best of the finite number of years we have on this planet (while not making it any worse for anyone else), think that pride and self-righteousness are the cause of most conflict and negativity, and are humbled [...]

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Joining Technorati

I’ve decided to join Technorati, and in order to claim my blog, I must post this: FMPBTUNHJF5Q

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Pioneer One

Pioneer One

A few days ago, Pioneer One debuted. It’s an independent sci-fi dramatic “television series” (currently only one episode, my fingers are crossed for more) that’s funded solely through donations (originally via Kickstarter) and distributed freely through the BitTorrent protocol via Vodo. The show is licensed under Creative Commons. Pioneer One itself is very intriguing, especially [...]

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Disc Jockey

Having received a new Pioneer car stereo as a graduation gift from my parents (and installing it with my uncle a few days ago), I have taken an interest in DJ’ing. On our senior cruise last Wednesday, I spoke with their hired DJ after we docked and asked him for advice, and he pointed me [...]

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Trinary vs. Binary

There’s 10 types of people in the world, those who understand trinary, those who don’t, and those who mistake it for binary.

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GPL made simple

What was my stuff is now our stuff. If you improve our stuff, or even link with our stuff, make sure the whole shebang is our stuff.

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A Theory on People

Let me preface this with the fact that I will be using the term “schizophrenics” to mean those with dissociative identity disorder, which is where a single person has multiple personalties, to the point that each one is a different person; this is seemingly the public’s common interpretation of schizophrenia. This theory on life is not meant to [...]

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