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Sunday 07th March 2010

[Anime] Some philosophical cosplay quandries!

For your consideration ^_^. If Tarale happens to come across this, she may want to avoid it because it contains a random list of confusing, disparate thoughts again!

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Thursday 04th March 2010

Answering @JJProjects about $100 million

It’s one of those age old questions (adjusted for inflation), what would you do if you suddenly had 100 million dollars?

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Wednesday 03rd March 2010

Can we expect fairness?

Or perhaps a more pertinent question: even if we want it, can fairness exist?

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Friday 26th February 2010

User:Jimkloss/Thoughts6

Jim Kloss

Having just spent the last few days talking about my own social anxiety, awkwardness and questions about my point in life, the universe, everything and 42, I thought I’d stop being so inwardly focused and address someone else’s post discussing similar issues. We’re a confederacy of introverts here aren’t we? :).

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Saturday 16th January 2010

Can you print a blank page?

No printing!

Don’t remember when or where I saw the above picture, but what’s to stop somebody… printing that picture? Wouldn’t a more apt replacement for content they didn’t want printed be… a blank page?

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Friday 11th December 2009

@FakeAPStylebook titbit tidbit tidbid

@FakeAPStylebook: The word “totally” is redundant except when describing how rad something is.

Totally.

Monday 19th October 2009

Tips on how to reduce stress by Krizia

Too many unread messages!

Despite working, studying and being geographically isolated from all my close friends and family (except for my sister!) I still look at all the work people like my dad do on one end of the scale, and people who literally have to spend an entire day walking to a well to get enough horrible muddy water just to bring back to their village to drink on the other side to think my problems are pretty trivial. Still, I reckon since 2007 my stress levels feel as though they’ve been doubling every few months which has resulted in a pretty steep curve!

The Guy Kawasaki over on AllTop linked to an article on DumbLittleMan.com written by a woman going by the name of Krizia entitled 10 Ways to Reduce Stress Without Spending a Dime.

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Thursday 08th October 2009

US healthcare reform view from an outsider

US Navy photo of the USNS Mercy

I’m sorry, I know I keep talking about things that aren’t technology related but something has been bugging me. The stunning US Navy photo above of the USNS Mercy framed with a rainbow might give you an indication on what this post will be about, if you couldn’t discern from the title.

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Wednesday 07th October 2009

Busyness, saying no and whatnot

ThinkGeek Shirt of Ultimate Disambiguation

Earlier this year I decided I couldn’t keep up all my disparate blogs scattered over a wider area than all that foam that ended up on the walls when our washing machine had problems, so I merged them all into this one. This means for each practical software tip there are several needlessly pointless posts such as this one that perhaps would have just gone into a journal before, but it’s an infinitely easier setup. The word infinitely has lots of skinny letters in it.

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Sunday 04th October 2009

Multiple online identities are too tiring

Duck duck duck duck

I briefly had a talk with a few epicly awesome people yesterday from interstate about the idea of online personae, and how it seems to be the norm for many people to have their real selves and an internet pseudonym that "never shall meet".

I personally never saw the attraction of having multiple online identities because by having all my material in one place with my name people can see all that I’m interested in, plus I don’t have to remember which voice to use depending on what site I’m on and what account I’m logged into. I’m far too absent minded to pull that off.

I’ve heard the argument that people want to maintain a "professional" and "personal" online presence, but too often when I see this their professional sites are dry, dull and boring, while their personal sites are really interesting — even if they end up taking about the same thing. For me, I like people to see that I have a life outside studies and work, and conversely that I have interests in topics such as FreeBSD that I’m not studying at university at all!

I’m also a dreadful hypocrite, I maintain this site here at Rubenerd.com even though I’ve registered RubenSchade.com, RubenSchade.net and RubenSchade.org just in case I ever want to separate them. Oh yeah, and the name is shorter and catchier and all that.

Perhaps when I’m older and have a full time job outside studying I’ll want to keep my stuff separate, or perhaps I’ll even be required to. The way it stands now though, I’m perfectly happy with people knowing.

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Dedicated to my groovy late mum Debra Schade.