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Harry Potter redux

Friday, August 17, 2007

I took a short break from reading Infinite Jest to finish up with the Harry Potter series. After being thrilled with book 5 and very disappointed with book 6, I was hoping that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows would redeem the series. It didn’t. But before I go into the shortcomings [...]

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My open letter of resignation from Starbucks

Thursday, June 21, 2007

To Whom It May Concern:
It is with a heavy heart and a lightened conscience that I hand my resignation on this, the eve of an unveiling of a new flavor that Starbucks will begin marketing to the caffeine-addicted masses. Over the past several months at Starbucks, I have learned a lot about what, precisely, [...]

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On calculating a trajectory

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

With the impending graduation, I’m finally realizing that there is a real world out there that exists and lives and breathes and pollutes and cries and belches. That, on any given day, millions of people work billions of hours, usually in places they don’t like or, at the very least, would avoid if given the [...]

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