Tag Archives: Quotes

Behind the scenes

By alex | Published: 11/25/2004
Layne showers after her sex scene is finally completed and Long stops in to tell her ‘how good she was in bed.’ It was Layne’s third movie she had done and she said that it was much better than her previous ones, “the last one was painful, I was bleeding for days. I feel fine […]
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Where is my OLIVER?

By alex | Published: 11/3/2004
I was recently rereading Licklidder’s “The computer as a communications device” (1968; available as a pdf) and was struck by this image of a personal network agent. It seems as though people do a lot of talking about this, but I want to know where mine is. Is the Bayesian spam filter the best we […]
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My loathings

By alex | Published: 10/5/2004
“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.” – V. Nabakov
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Mills on blogging

By alex | Published: 8/25/2004
The following is from the appendix of the Sociological Imagination, entitled “On Intellectual Craftsmanship.” I recently reread the chapter, and was struck by the recommendation of keeping a journal. I reproduce these paragraphs because of how they speak to the academic’s use of a blog, I think: What this means is that you must learn […]
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