invinciblecity

I just saw Last King of Scotland. I think one of the hardest things to be is menacing. Anyone can be angry or violent or crazy. But it takes special talent to just stand there and stare and still convey what a truly bad idea fucking with you would be. Forrest Whittaker earned that Oscar.

Worst part about the movie was that I couldn't watch...
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I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Does the rest of the world have so much trouble interacting with other people or is it just me?

Okay, I haven't been on for like six months. Maybe the real world had some brief temptation for me, but I'm ready to embrace the pasty, pathetic internet nerd life I was destined for.

the Love of My Life came blowing back about six months ago, as she does every so often. Things were good for a while. She came to visit, and we had...
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So I did get my official GRE scores back. 94 Percentile on the verbal, <S>not quite so good on the math</S>. Fuck it, 33 Percentile. I did get a 5.5 on the writing, as predicted. I say these things not to brag, but as a kind of reminder to myself that this goal is possible to attain.

If not by me.

I took the GRE today and did not do as well as I had hoped. I'm not a dumb guy. I just do better when I have access to research materials. I'll probably get a 5.5 or 6 on the writing portion. One thing I can always count on is inexplicable praise for my writing.

I'm forging ahead with my grad school applications, despite the...
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Back in the plague days, people would hang black cloth over their windows as a sign that someone had died inside. Not only were they alerting the authorities that a body was ready to be removed, they were also warning neighbors that the living had been exposed to the illness. In effect, they were telling everyone that only the dead live here.

Today, it suffices...
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Re: Emerson's "Nominalist and Realist."

Man has a dual nature, at once particular and catholic. Our empirical nature is forever mired in the minutiae of particulars. Every sensation I have is of a particular thing at a particular time, from a particular angle. Yet my mind is compelled to draw inferences from particulars, to abstract from specifics into general characteristics. Emerson said Truth is in...
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Profile updated again.

Thank you Lords of Kobol that school is over.

Value Theory's got nothing on me, bitches

At the risk of sounding like a chauvanist, or being arrested, I must say that I'm quite please about the arrival of spring, especially working on a college campus.