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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Oct 10 2005

JFC, I think that's an owl

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Our Home

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There's something in my tree that's screeching REALLY fucking loud, as loud as a car peeling out. I've heard it 5 times, a few while I was outside, and it's definitely coming from that tree. What the hell else could it be? It has to be an owl, right? (Stupid tree! Lose your leaves so …

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Oct 05 2005

Prison Break is the dumbest show I watch religiously

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TV

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I don't like prison shows. No matter how many people told me that Oz was great, there was no way I was going to sit in for the unending misery of Nazi cliques and regular rape. Sorry. Also, frankly I'm a bit tired of conspiracy shows. I couldn't stand the X-Files or Alias. There have …

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Sep 26 2005

Fahrenheit: Fun experience, but is it a game?

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Video games

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The opening menu of Fahrenheit prompts the user to start a "new movie", rather than a new game. While this may strike someone as a prelude to the hackneyed techniques of Full Motion Video games, this notion should be resisted. By the time one has finished the introductory training sequence, he may feel differently. Once …

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Sep 22 2005

Birthplace of Logic?

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General

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Ancient Greece: Home to Thales, the first philosopher; the fertile land from which came the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics. Truly the beginning of reason as a high ideal. The only problem with this is that it's horseshit. On matters of religion they were prone to just about every fallacy that …

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Sep 07 2005

That ol' parallel construction'll get ya

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This is one of the funniest things I've heard lately: Wolf Blitzer clip on Howard, September 6th, 2005, talking about the victims of Katrina. Anchormen are awesome without a teleprompter.

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