January 2012
11 posts
Tumblr is where you write your feelings and hope somebody responds.
Unfortunately, I seem to lack the ability to put my feelings into words.
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put...”
– Neil Gaiman [on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web] (source)
my panic is manic: are all the sharing sites... →
justawordshaker:
Because I can’t deal with this. And it’s not even that I download stuff that often. It’s the principle of the thing.
Companies are arguing that the entertainment industry is losing money due to pirating, right? But how do they know that? Have there been any actual…
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Don't go to grad school
You know that phenomenon where something you used to like becomes associated with something that you hate, thus rendering what you used to like repulsive? Maybe it’s a song that you used to listen to with your ex-girlfriend, or the smell of a handsoap that you now associate with your old roommate. Well, graduate school has done that to me with linguistics.
I used to like linguistics. Like,...
