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Month: May, 2010

New Shoes!

I got some new shoes over the weekend! I know they look like toe socks. They feel a bit like socks, but they are actually shoes. They are Vibram Five Fingers. The specific model I got is the Classic. These shoes are part of a movement of barefoot athletes. Here is their argument: If we were given great [...]

New Computer!

I have thought about building a dedicated computer for gaming ever since 11th grade. Last week, I pulled the trigger and built one. The specs: Antec Nine Hundred SE Case link Antec Truepower 650W Power Supply link Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4 Motherboard link AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad-Core Processor link two 2GB Corsair XMS3 [...]

Prank the Monkey: The ZUG Book of Pranks

“There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s forgery.” -Sir John Hargrave When I was looking on Amazon for some new books to read, I came across Prank the Monkey. Not only did it have five star reviews, the Kindle version is only $2.99. I hadn’t read many funny books in a [...]

The Return to Texas

I probably had the worst luck possible yesterday. First, I grossly underestimated the time it would take to pack and move all my stuff from Schapiro Hall at 115th street between Riverside and Broadway to Manhattan Mini Storage at 107th street between Amsterdam and Columbus. After spending the better part of the day moving, I [...]