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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Sep 04 2008

The new best reason to vote Obama

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So...Sarah Palin. The right has taken their identity crisis to a whole new level this week. The top of their ticket, whose position there was result presumably of a lack of control by the party base, is a boring old man with a fake record of iconoclasm but a real record of toeing the party …

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Aug 27 2008

Don't be hatin' on Slither

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Film

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I happened to start watching Slither last night. Sounded like another of the cheap horror flicks we're inundated with each year, but my curiosity was piqued by the inclusion of the always winning Nathan Fillon. Lo and behold, it's great! From the middle of the film forward I laughed more than at all the recent …

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Aug 13 2008

A cool week for science

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Science

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Fundamental Physics: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox is taught in every intro quantum mechanics class. It goes something like this: Suppose you have an event (like an electron and a positron annihilating) which emits two photons that travel in opposite directions (required for conservation of momentum). The principle theory of QM (Heisenberg interpretation) is that the spin …

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Jun 13 2008

Indisputably the best songs ever

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Music

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Recently I happened upon this list by Rolling Stone of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It is, of course, mired in old-fart music, relying on "importance" of songs rather than on aesthetics. It's also clearly not the work of an individual. The top 2 songs are both really just lines of bullshit: Dylan's …

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Apr 29 2008

Am I the next generation of Old Fart music fan?

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Music

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I maintain a long playlist of songs I think are great. The list is quite extensive (1293 tracks, at present) for someone that other people say is "picky" about music, and I think few people can say there are that many songs they really love. But, I have an issue with this list. Recently, I …

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