April 2010
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December 2009
1 post
Watchsamnesia:
Why do I always end up making one of these at the end of every semester?
One take, filmed at 1:30 am - eight hours before my flight home to Wisconsin - with a special guest appearance. Enjoy, or whatever!
July 2009
3 posts
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Omar's Writer's Block
Omar: bonkers, so I can't seem to think of a way to end this letter to my mentor
Omar: all i've got right now is
Omar: "I hope to hear from you soon."
Me: hmm, try "Hope to see you soon.....!!"
Omar: oh that's great
Omar: thanks man
me: haha sarcasm
Omar: no no I actually just used it lol
me: omg wut
Omar: i blanked out
me: but that makes no sense
Omar: it does
Omar: because in a month
Omar: i will see her
me: but who puts ellipses
me: before exclamation points...??
Omar: oh you did that on purpose lol
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The Mystery of Macky
(on July 6th, I find this on my facebook wall) Shotaro Makisumi: shum, you’re cute! i can’t quite figure out why i think that, though. (Bewildered by this comment, I shrug it off and leave it untouched…until today, when I realized that my e-penis can be tremendously enhanced with the help of Liv Tyler and morphthing.com) Andrew Shum: it’s because a quarter of me is...
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Another conversation with my Italian research...
(All accents preserved for your reading pleasure.)
Me: So yeah, I could get you Windows on your Mac.
LB: Wawht? You cahn? When?!
Me: Right now.
LB: Agh, sheet! (quickly hands me his laptop)
Me: You’ll need a copy of Windows though…
LB: I cood get eet ride nao (starts to google for torrents)
Me: Oh, actually. I have a copy of Windows Vista…oh wait, but it’s like 4...
June 2009
5 posts
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Close Encounters: Part 2
Something that I’m always circumlocutory about admitting is that my sense of direction is comparable to that of a carrier pigeon’s, if carrier pigeons were known for their lack of a sense of direction. On the morning of my departure for Italy, I found myself alone and marooned in a small silver line station somewhere out in Boston, looking for the bus to Logan airport…two hours...
Apropos? Maybe I will go there sometime this...
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Close Encounters: Part 1
During the few months leading up to my internship in Italy, I attended cultural training sessions organized by the MIT-Italy coordinator. The training was long and rigorous, and the few things I got out of it that prepared me for the cultural shock I was about to encounter were Italian stereotypes and absurd amounts of pellegrino.
The people who told me about these stereotypes were Italian and,...
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Skype conversation with my Italian research...
Skype seems to be a fairly popular communication medium among professionals and generally among Europeans. I spoke with my adviser here at Fondazione Bruno Kessler for the first time via Skype IM. The following is the transcript.
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LB: Hi andrew
how are you?
Andrew Shum: Hi, I am doing well
LB: fine
tomorrow mornign i'll be in fbk
so hopefully we can meet
Andrew Shum: great, I will be in the office that you showed eirini
LB: perfect
i know...
the office is terrible...
Andrew Shum: hehe, it is fine for computer work
would I possibly be doing electronics work at all?
LB: you mena, with a solder....
Andrew Shum: yes
LB: mmmm
it's like fight club
first rule - you do not talk about soldering!
Andrew Shum: third rule - If someone says "stop" or goes limp, the soldering is over
LB: we shouldn't
ahahhaha
ahahah
Andrew Shum: okay
LB: you studied
Andrew Shum: yes
LB: let's see.....
what's the name of the gipsy in snatch?
Andrew Shum: oh god, haven't seen that one
LB: you see?
you have to keep improving
nice movie, anyway
Andrew Shum: haha, Brad Pitt fan, I see
LB: not at all
just for cultural purpose
Andrew Shum: gotcha
LB: so
see you tomorrow morning
I'm curios about your acomodation
Andrew Shum: what about it?
LB: is ti ok?
Andrew Shum: it's perfect
i'm really enjoying the foot washing sink
i've never seen such a thing
LB: ahahahah
ahahaha
actually it's a bath for babies
Andrew Shum: oh.
May 2009
1 post
A Post Without Yesterpost
Hmm, the combination of the uniformity of these textboxes and the photograph of the silo vaguely reminds me of the typological works of Bernd Becher. Perhaps the layout designer had him in mind?
I should be studying for finals, but boredom abounds. Here are some motivational sentences, typing which might lead me to increased productivity: “Success is a mental transformation, not an external...