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Stop SOPA, stop censorship.

January 18, 2012

Here is everything you need to know about SOPA, why it is extremely dangerous for the Internet, and why I am vehemently against it, and you should be, too.  If you click the banner on the top right of the page, or go here, you can learn about what to do. The Internet represents some of what is the best and most beautiful about humanity and human idea exchange. Let’s not let that change. Because here’s what happens when it ...

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Travel is my religion (so is really terrible amateur photography)

December 26, 2011

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine Wow.  Where do I start about our vacation to the England and Scotland last week? I love to travel, and I live to travel.  Planning travel is a pain in the ass and makes me really stressed out, but the moment when I see the US disappearing below me is when I am at my happiest.  Being on an airplane, on a train, ...

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This post is kind of hipster because I talk about old-school radios and miss them, but I also love my iPad

December 5, 2011

When I was 12, I bought a shortwave radio that I could also tune to international channels. It offered a  terrible user experience, as the cool kids would say these days. It caught a signal maybe 20% of the time.  You also didn’t know which country you were tuning to, only the frequency. But the 20% of the time it did work, it was amazing. After I’d finished all my homework and climbed into bed, I’d lie under the covers ...

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I Love America: Air Conditioning and Public Utilities for All

July 5, 2011

Let’s talk Fourth of July and why I love America. So this weekend we went to the beach with the Borscht family and a bunch of other friends, two of whom were visiting from Russia and made me think.  There are some inherent differences between Russians from Russia and Russians that have been in America for a while.  For example, Russians from Russia don’t do summer well, because summers in Russia are colder than spring in Tora Bora.  As I ...

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The Internet Tells You Things You Don’t Want to Know

February 3, 2011

The problem with being from a second-world country that is no longer in the news in a Big Way is that your narrative for your graduate school application in economics will never be as strong as someone who is also Google searching for help on their Statement of Purpose in Economics and turns out to be from Irbid, Jordan.  Or India.  India is practically on the Economist cover every week. Ho. Luckily, I’m not competing with the visitor from Singapore ...

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