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Trying to make a dollar out of 15¢…
Here is a funny clip of two things: 1) a man showing you how to make $3.75 out of $1 2) a professor giving his students a quick (and costly) lesson on the game theory of political lobbying. If you liked learning about “the prisoner’s dilemma” and other zero-sum thought experiments in school, you’ll love [...]
November 7, 2009
Tags: game theory, lobbying, money, video Posted in: Miscellaneous 
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cityoneminutes – Asmara
A friend of mine emailed me this link a while ago, I really don’t know how to describe it. Here is a description of their site: Are you curious to know how people live on the other side of the world? What does Moscow look like between three and four in the afternoon? What happens [...]
October 14, 2009
Tags: Asmara, cityoneminutes Posted in: Eritrea, Miscellaneous No Comments
Don’t really have much to say…
It’s been about a month since I made a post on this blog, but I still don’t have anything linguistically relevant to write so… Here is Renton’s drug overdose scene from the movie Trainspotting. Enjoy.
May 23, 2009
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Defense Language Institute
I was stumbling across the internet again when I ran into the Defense Language Institute website. According to Wikipedia the Defense Language Institute (DLI) is… is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) educational and research institution, which provides linguistic and cultural instruction to the Department of Defense, other Federal Agencies and numerous and varied [...]
March 16, 2009
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Soon it will be a new year…
…and what the hell are you reading a blog for? Go out, get a life… Live!
December 31, 2008
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I’ve seen 92 out of these 213 films. I have no life :(
This is a silly exercise, but supposedly, if you have seen more than 85 films in this list, you have no life. Which is funny, because I would think that the real ‘no life’ test would be doing this test in the first place. Eh, (x) Rocky Horror Picture Show () Grease (x) Pirates of [...]
December 19, 2008
Tags: silly Posted in: Miscellaneous No Comments
Something’s…different
I’m trying something new here with the theme. Let me know if you guys hate it.
October 29, 2008
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Today is electioon day!
I was reading about the procedural rules for voting today in The Star online when I came to something interesting. One of the questions/answers was a bit strange to say the least… May I eat my ballot? At first I questioned the necessity of such an absurd question. I mean, how many people could possibly [...]
October 14, 2008
Tags: canada, elections, voting Posted in: canada, Miscellaneous No Comments
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