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By ~LS~ On May 12, 2012 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Capitalism, Consumption, Money, Pets, Voxygen

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Ten Cool Things about Baton Rouge

By ~LS~ On September 18, 2010 · Add Comment · In Random Musings, Travel and tagged Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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Ways to cheat on Foursquare

By ~LS~ On July 26, 2010 · Add Comment · In Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Consumption, Droid, Pop Culture, Silliness, Travel

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The hidden cost of graduate school

By ~LS~ On July 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Academentia, Capitalism, Generations, I have to work?, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Money, Teaching, Work Sucks

I just paid my student loan a couple of days ago, which basically means I hit a button on the loan website and depleted my financial resources for another month. In the moment, I started to reflect on the debilitating costs of graduate school, costs which most people don’t consider even later in their lives after they’ve graduated. Most academics that I know have a deep sense of nostalgia for their days of poverty, where living on ramen, cheap beer, and the company of good friends in the same boat got them through until the next measly TA paycheck. They also have a healthy resentment for how paying student loans back takes money directly from their pockets in the present. This is all at the level of obviousness. But the unacknowledged costs add up to a substantial amount of cash, yet no one ever includes them in any accounting. When [...]

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Ben Franklin’s Facebook Status

By ~LS~ On July 4, 2010 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts, Humor, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Al Franken, Books, Facebook, For Wordies, Humor, Silliness

Today’s Times Book Review section has a nicely written, humorous article on Ben Franklin and his Almanac: Ben Franklin is a Big Fat Idiot. The title made it mandatory reading for me given my utter adulation of Al Franken. In fact, the author, Joe Queenan, seems to have as much of a crush on Franklin as I have on Franken.

To his disappointment, Queenan discovered that the Almanac was not nearly as inspirational as he remembered it to be and so he laments the resultant bit of tarnish on Franklin’s halo. His claims that Franklin’s aphorisms failed “the acid test of validity and usefulness.” Take this one, for example: “Keep your mouth wet, feet dry.” Ok, I agree, teh stoopid.

The first thing that came to mind as I read the article was Facebook. Ben Franklin seems to have written down whatever [...]

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Beneath the circuits, the tree of life

By ~LS~ On March 31, 2010 · Add Comment · In Random Musings, Technology, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Haraway, Tattoos, Technoculture

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