May 19 2008
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May 17 2008
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A little downtime
Some of the services I run, including the calais text tagger, will be down for a little while as I’m doing some server maintenance. I apologize for any inconvenience.
May 15 2008
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Ryan Leslie plays piano over Lil Wayne’s Lollipop on Invasion show on SIRIUS [via Rishi]
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End of the 'Stache
As much as I was initially hesitant, I truly enjoyed the last 4 months wearing a mustache as a covenant signifying my support of a great undertaking: taking a closed beta product and turning it into something available to the world. Earlier this evening, I had my mustache shaved by Ritch at Barber Lounge. Although I really do appreciate being able to see my upper lip again, I do miss my mustache, a shape shifter that took the form of a cuban smuggler, a regular goatee and biker handlebars.
Tomorrow I will post pictures, but until then:
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
May 13 2008
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QR Code
QR code for opensynapse.net. You can also make one for your url, phone number, sms, or just some text at http://qrcode.kaywa.com/.
May 10 2008
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Dennis Liu’s really amazing unofficial music video of The Bird and the Bee’s “Again and Again”. [via tuaw]
May 09 2008
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Mission Hipsters > Williamsburg Hipsters
What’s funny is that as much as I hate hipsters in general, I realize that I hate Brooklyn hipsters more than I hate ones here in SF. If they’d stop wearing ridiculously tight/short black jeans with Converses and stop calling everything ironic, I might actually tolerate them.
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I need help choosing a new laptop bag
So I’m in the market for a new laptop bag for my 15” MBPs. I really like my Timbuk2 Laptop Messenger but I want a change.
Here are my choices:
Let’s forget about price for a second because they’re all pretty much within the range I’m willing to spend. Anyone have thoughts? Send me a tweet @abhaykumar or use one of the other ways to get in touch with me.
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Here’s a really cool video showing coupled oscillation and how harmonic systems can synchronize over time. A similar thing happens to two pendula or any other cyclic group with weak coupling. I remember writing about this stuff in a paper on chaos theory early in high school so it’s great to see it again. [via tumbl.us]
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