January 2011
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New Study Shows E-Readers are "too easy" to read. →
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Neuroscience blogger Jonah Lehrer found he was less likely to recall information he had read on his Kindle e-reader, even though the reading experience was easier and more relaxing.
He wrote on his Frontal Cortex blog that there are two ways of reading – using the brain’s ventral pathway, through which the brain recognises words and understands their individual meanings, or the...
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf (via kari-shma)
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“Then I was told – in the late 50s and early 60s – that women weren’t supposed to...”
– Margaret Atwood (via bibliofeminista)
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AND: haha, i'm about to leave subway. it's so sad how much I'm in love with k.
NVW: you should feed him a really fantastic sandwich. you know that sexist saying 'the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.' that's why i got t addicted to my spaghetti.
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DLS: That's not bad; that's $700 more than a regular RA.
NVW: I do not care. $700 can't buy me more sleep.
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Advice on uncluttering your life! →
I disagree with the statement about coffee cups, though.
Just Say No to Too Much Stuff
Stuff. For many of us it’s worse than any four-letter word. That’s because “stuff” can weigh you down and hold you back
“I read it in a book once. I’m thinking about trying it out one of these...”
– Written on my sister’s bedroom wall. Source unidentified and no results from Google.
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Partial snow day
A massive amount of snow fell on Gambier throughout Thursday night and the early morning hours of Friday. Usually I would drag myself out of bed at 6:30 and go to the gym, but I decided to take a partial snow day (unfortunately on a residential campus, there are rarely real snow days). I slept in until 8:30, then proceeded to get up, shower, and get ready for my 11 am Milton class while jamming to...
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I’ve been really absent minded on the first two days of class, doing things like forgetting my cell phone and not wearing my watch and forgetting to charge my cell phone. It’s been a fun experiment having no time-telling devices on my person and relying on other people or these old-fashioned things called clocks. My disregarding our ways of keeping track of time has made me feel like I...
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AND: bahaha noo why can't he be normal lol
NVW: because he's in high school! no one is normal in high school.
AND: he's 17, he's getting there
AND: I'm just a woman with needs
AND: [TK] said i like just like the attention, which is true, but does liking for attention cause you to want to make out with the person? The world may never know.
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AND: bahaha noo why can't he be normal lol
NVW: because he's in high school! no one is normal in high school.
AND: he's 17, he's getting there
AND: I'm just a woman with needs
AND: [TK] said i like just like the attention, which is true, but does liking for attention cause you to want to make out with the person? The world may never know.
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“Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive...”
– Mel Brooks (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
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“Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive...”
– Mel Brooks (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
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“The hall of the house was cool as a vault…she felt like a nun who has left...”
– Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
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“The hall of the house was cool as a vault…she felt like a nun who has left...”
– Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
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Facts from Filipina feminist history →
fywomenshistory:
A few fun facts about Filipina feminist history:
Prior to Spanish colonization in the 1500s, women practiced pre-marital sex, divorce, abortion and actively participated in trade.
The first Filipina “feminist” organization was established in 1901: Asocacion Feminista Filipina.
Filipinas became the first women in Asia to obtain suffrage, in 1937.
Because of the Philippines’...
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Facts from Filipina feminist history →
fywomenshistory:
A few fun facts about Filipina feminist history:
Prior to Spanish colonization in the 1500s, women practiced pre-marital sex, divorce, abortion and actively participated in trade.
The first Filipina “feminist” organization was established in 1901: Asocacion Feminista Filipina.
Filipinas became the first women in Asia to obtain suffrage, in 1937.
Because of the Philippines’...
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Chocolate Covered Pretzels
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Chocolate Covered Pretzels
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Today's damages
Coffeeshop = $1.79 Haircut+Tip=$27 Kindle+Tax=$149.44 Ebay: Kindle Case= $9.49
Total $187.72
Too bad that I stopped selling Cutco. Those were the days when I could make up for this in an hour’s worth of work on a Saturday afternoon.
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First impressions of Kindle owning.
1. Bad Omen: dropping the bag with new kindle inside on the snowy porch while trying to unlock the house door.
2. ACCESS to the Oxford English Dictionary when not on college campus - HELLO, you are worth your $139+tax already!
3. The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Kindle Edition $0.99. OMG Jane and I can go everywhere together!
4. Not reading on my computer or printing PDFs of Dante’s...
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I'm just going to do it - Buy a Kindle.
Tomorrow. In cash. At Best Buy.
What finally pushed me over the edge? The 230 page PDF of Dante’s Purgatorio that I’ll be reading for my religious studies class. I’m not planning to buy my books for classes on Kindle (a) because I really love books and (b) because I have a scholarship that covers them via my campus card and (c) because I already own all the Jane Austens...
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NYC trash collection back up →
So there was a blizzard, burying some parts of the city in as much as 2 feet of snow. So workers were busy clearing snow away from the streets so that people could resume their oh-so-busy lives, and they just didn’t get around to the trash. People got real angry. One woman said (on NPR, not in this story) that instead of walking out into tunnels of snow, she felt like she was walking through...
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“and when she kissed me it tasted like cinnamon
and her skin smelled of cider...”
– “Canadian Rose,” Blues Traveler
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“and when she kissed me it tasted like cinnamon
and her skin smelled of cider...”
– “Canadian Rose,” Blues Traveler
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You may have noticed that I haven’t mentioned “new year’s resolutions” in any of the first three days of 2011. That’s because I didn’t make any resolutions. It’s not that I don’t like them or that I have the pessimistic attitude that they always fail, cause that’s not true. I did relatively well with my resolution last year, which was to stop...
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You may have noticed that I haven’t mentioned “new year’s resolutions” in any of the first three days of 2011. That’s because I didn’t make any resolutions. It’s not that I don’t like them or that I have the pessimistic attitude that they always fail, cause that’s not true. I did relatively well with my resolution last year, which was to stop...
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“Girls get a lot of mixed messages—they are told, ‘Girl Power!’ and what does...”
– Tina Fey (via tinafeyisawesome)
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“Girls get a lot of mixed messages—they are told, ‘Girl Power!’ and what does...”
– Tina Fey (via tinafeyisawesome)
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American Wasteland
So, last night before I drifted off into a Kahlua induced coma, two hours before my normal bedtime, I started reading a book I saw in my library’s New Year Diet display last week, American Wasteland by Jonathan Bloom. This is the third in a series of food-relative books I have read during winter break (In Defense of Food and Mindless Eating previously). I took Sociology of Food a couple...
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman, 2001 (via austinkleon)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman, 2001 (via austinkleon)