February 2012
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AAJAOnline: Asian American Journalists Association... →
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The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) is a non-profit professional and educational organization with over 1,400 members across the United States and in Asia. Founded in 1981, AAJA has been at the forefront of change in the journalism industry. AAJA’s mission is to provide a means of…
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Jeremy Lin and Forbidden Words
Note: I am writing a series of 1500-word memos on Jeremy Lin because no human willingly reads 25,500 words at a time. Here’s Part II of 17.
Fortune: The Knicks need Lin to scratch ink onto a new contract with some perks. Throw in a free cook — eating is important. Who knows if this would even get someone fired?
Language is emotional. Words aren’t merely signs that indicate some...
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Jeremy Lin and Unpreparedness
Note: I am writing a series of memos on Jeremy Lin because it’s not possible to cover it all in one sitting. Here’s Part I. Probably of 17.
The way we understand new things is dependent on what we’re prepared to see and interpret. Our personal experiences shape the way we ingest unfamiliar variations of similar things we already know. We understand today’s sitcoms in terms of Friends or...
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On must I beg Del Taco: No cat ledge bits. Um, no. #palindrome
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Crappy palindrome
Liam Neeson no seen mail.
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It's easier sometimes to do this on accident
No wifi if I won.
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Sigh, this is hard
So, most palindromes don’t make a ton of sense, but this one is in the upper tier of nonsensicalism:
Dew one risen olive cite Nike kinetic evil ones ire now, Ed.
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Panlindrome:
Tandem an avid diva named Nat.
Luckily Deliberately, I have a friend named Natalie!
I worked hard on this! Going to see if it gets any easier.
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Question:
1) Why do girls say “I might date/could see myself dating him again later” right after a break up?
2) Has this ever come true?
Facts are just the foundation. The architecture is the ideas. The ones you can reach out and touch and mold to your will.
Blog post brewing.
Perspectives of Paris:
There’s at least 4.
Paris at ground level.
Paris by rooftop.
Paris underground.
Paris over the water.
Possibly a Paris by the 2nd floor, or a bonus Paris by the cross-section or Paris by wine or something. I’m backed up right now. Have to tackle gay marriage, Jeremy Lin, and this one, along with reviewing Fiesta!/The Sun Also Rises.
Timeline is propelling us into the post-Facebook internet. One timeline ends, another begins.
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The Random Rant
[Note: Trying to put this in comic/flow-chart form. For now, we have this.]
The problem with the word random is that the explanation for random is randomness — an explanation unto itself. There is no further knowledge required, deeper questioning is discouraged, and all underlying meaning is extinguished. As an explanation or description, random is the beginning and the end. Random refuses...
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In Other Words
We trust science not because it is never or has never been wrong, but because when it is wrong, it acknowledges it and changes course.
This is not the case with Global Warming.
Ice and Falsifiability
Some people say there is a scientific consensus that Global Warming is real and man-caused and the evidence is incontrovertible and an absolute fact. Other people say climate changes all the time, that correlation is not causation, and new evidence has the ability to alter predictive theories. Global Warming absolutists claim that predictive science is fatally accurate and will not tolerate...
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You’re #Lin-vited to watch Jeremy Lin #Jere-deaLin’ & SteaLin’! With a high bball #Lin-telligence, he brings the #Lin-tensity and #Lin-cites the crowd. He’s a Lin-spiration! #linsanity
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This is Consumption
In writing as in economics there are producer and consumer roles. When you write about what you know you are acting as a consumer. You are consuming the reader’s time and mental energy. People don’t care what you know — people want to decide how your information helps them. When you leave out important information you are a producer — necessarily consuming less by writing...
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the...”
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It’s like at first we develop our talents because they help us discover truth. And then we realize one day they can be used for other purposes. Nothing’s ever the same. Nothing’s inherently good or all good. Permanently.
I just feel like Hemingway wouldn’t call his literary style of presenting scant surface details with a wealth of discoverable substance hidden from view something as tawdry as “iceberg theory.” I mean, it wasn’t a cliché when he coined it, but his body of work has held up better than his explanation of it. What a stupid name! He’d hate the way it sounds today. Lesson:...
“And that’s about the time she walked away from me.
Nobody likes you when you’re...”
– Blink 182 - What’s My Age Again? (via hoffmonkey2)
Why is it so relevant now that I’m 23?