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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May 21 2005

The adventure game genre festers

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Video games

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sigh...2 more lousy adventure games. The Moment of Silence Where to begin with this shitfest? The game is set in about 100 years in the future (I think...they barely talk about the world they inhabit), and you play a generation-Y ad executive who witnesses his neighbor being taken away by the SWAT team. Since the …

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May 09 2005

The Last Bastion of Racism

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General

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I need a haircut. Badly. The problem is that I live in Moreno Valley, and, well, there are a lot of non-white people here. Hair is a peculiar thing: it's one thing that undisputedly different among races (the other being, similarly undisputedly, skin color, although I'm willing to bet there are many other physiological aspects …

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Mar 04 2005

TeX to MathML Method

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Computing

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With a MikTeX distribution it is now easy to invoke TeX so that what is output is a Firefox-compatible xhtml with MathML. Visit the MathZilla website and download their tweaked version of TeX4ht. Extract the files to c:\tex4ht. The instructions on their site are very helpful. Basically, on my distribution of MikTeX all I had …

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Feb 27 2005

New Napster is Crap

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Computing

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I've signed up for a free 2 week trial of Napster. I do not plan on keeping it. Here's the deal: for 10 dollars a month ($15 if you want to use a portable device) you can download an unlimited number of available tracks from the website. The tracks are DRMed, so that if you …

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Feb 19 2005

Soda Fountain Diary #5: Frustration

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Our Home

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Despite running the carbonator per the guidelines: -fill tank until water comes out of relief valve -close relief and bring CO2 pressure to 100 PSI -plug in unit and dispense several times the product is still pretty flat. It's only marginally better than the last attempt. The only hypothesis we have is that the temperature …

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