Author: Shahryar Rizvi
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The quintessential anti-christmas song
Ever since I could remember, I’ve had a bit of a sarcastic, cynical relationship with the Christmas season. Even though my family doesn’t celebrate Christmas, we seem to get caught up in the big shopping ritual that comes along every fourth friday of November. It seems to me Thanksgiving doesn’t even happen anymore. The big […]
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Fake Sprinkled Hand
Most of today was quite laborious and boring. The last few hours of chatting it up with invited professors were well worth the work. In interacting with academia tonight, I got a sense of how much of a damned genius I am. Also… how much of my potential I am wasting. Meh… Saturday night and […]
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Finally! Some good news!
For most of my life, the news has bummed me out. This week is probably one of the happiest news weeks for me. Dems have the house Rummy is Out Federline is Out Ortega is in Saddam is sentenced to death
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I knew that George Allen was a bastard…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btMbyDmzs_Q Letter from Mike Stark The following is a letter to NBC29 from Mike Stark, the man who was tackled for a comment he made at Senator Allen’s campaign stop in Charlottesville on Tuesday. My name is Mike Stark. I am a law student at the University of Virginia, a marine, and a citizen journalist. […]
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What do you Fear?
Because Halloween is near, and I want to take a break from writing on someone else’s topics. I’ll write about a great fear I have. Ever since I saw Sarah Connor’s dream scene in Terminator 2 at age eight, I have been scared of nuclear weapons. I am quite scared of it since it fuses […]
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Fun Colbert Meme.
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My Birthday Bokken just came in! It’s so cool. Just doing the plain downward strike drill for now. If anyone has any other resources for kendo or kenjutsu training, please share them.
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Wow. Bookbinding is fun. So far I have completed binding two small ebooks on Beginning Japanese, and Beginning Mandarin. I am currently binding Someone Goes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow. It’s a big one, but I use file folders as the covers, which are cool since you can fold along the creases […]
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Two days to 21. I can hear all the people bothering me about drinking already, just like when I was 18 and people wanted to take me to a strip club. At that age, I told some classmates that I wanted to buy a bokken instead of going to a strip club, and they were […]
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虾不是小
Having trouble confirming the entry “xiaoxia” (noob in mandarin) as shown in The Meaning of Tingo. I deduced that the most correct pinyin word is xiăoxiā, but all the mandarin-speaking people I have asked don’t know what it means. The literal translation, small lobster, doesn’t show up in the english-chinese dictionaries I have looked over. […]