Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Aug 24 2009

Burglarised again

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TV pried off the wall to defeat the padlock I had on it

Yes, once again the house has been broken into. This time with a vengeance. They smashed a window to get in. Tore my 47" TV off the wall mount. PS3 gone (Wii, oddly enough, left). Lots of jewelry. Pics:

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Jul 03 2009

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

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Watch this. Now. It's a 50 minute documentary interview of Richard Feynman. Only part 4 is a little wonky, when he discusses hadron collision jets. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

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Jun 17 2009

Obama threads the needle on Iran

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Politics

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In a very Count-of-Monte-Cristo-esque way, the Obama administration has reacted extremely shrewdly to the very possible upheaval of the Iranian government. This is particularly apparent now that the "Supreme Leader" has come out with the desperate attack that the US is meddling in Iranian affairs. Obama, and likely Clinton, smelled this a mile away, and …

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May 21 2009

And those dogshit Propositions go down

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Politics

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I think George Will puts too fine point on it, but what few state voters could be bothered to go out on Tuesday delivered Schwarzenegger's and the state Congress' terrible terrible Propositions a decisive death. I would characterize them as "let's cook the books, buy off the teachers to help us, and raise income taxes." …

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May 12 2009

I think my TV habits show my age

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TV

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The fact that I've been feeling a general stunted mid-mid-life malaise is not helped by the fact that I now actually watch two CBS sitcoms, and truly find them funny. The Big Bang Theory somehow manages, despite all apparent signs, not to suck. The opening sequence is pretty great (the universe was in "a hot …

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