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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Dec 18 2006

Innumeracy in the marketplace

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Conversation overheard at a local retail store: Salesperson: "Ok, so for today only this necklace is a further 10% off the 50%-off price." Customer: "So, why don't you guys just say 60%?" Salesperson: "Oh, well, we just say it like that." How about "she doesn't say 60% because IT'S NOT FUCKING SIXTY PERCENT!" Last time …

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Dec 08 2006

A pretty good band

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Saw these guys, What Made Milwaukee Famous, a couple weeks ago on Austin City Limits. Check out the video here of their track "Hellodrama". That's easily the best song on the album, called "Trying never to catch up". I got it off UCR's horrible cdigix system, so I don't know how y'all can find it …

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Dec 07 2006

Whoa there, sailor

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I almost missed this little tidbit about the male birth-control pill: It stops (though we didn’t initially assume so) all ejaculate... by blocking the pump mechanism. Orgasm is not about the fluid but the mental processes that lead and drive ejaculation; these are not changed. I agree than many people love the actual physical sticky …

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Nov 01 2006

A new waste of time

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Video games

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Artistry comes in many forms. A human pours all his attention into a skill, honing his ability, harnessing his innate talent. He has to learn the field inside and out. This is the real pleasure in watching a sporting event: seeing someone really good at something you know is really hard. It makes it all …

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Oct 22 2006

It gets weirder

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A couple of things don't add up, following the burglary. One thing is that it seems that the entry and exit probably happened through the back sliding glass door, with someone jumping over the wall and then leaving the same way. In that case, why are the two netflixes that I had in the mailbox …

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