Month: February 2012
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Carbon Neutral in Houston (Year 2)
This report is my second year of carbon neutrality. (A description of my first year is here). This year saw some life changes which affected my carbon footprint. First, I moved to a new place where among other things, I had great access to public transportation. I live near a supermarket and even more places…
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The cool photo gallery I created
Here’s a large photo gallery I created of the cars of the novels by Jack Matthews. Lots of photos, a slow-loading page, but generally enjoyable (I wrote a short introductory essay as well).
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Problems with RSS Feed
I don’t know what is going on, but Google Reader has been having problems parsing my RSS feed. I recently posted 2 articles: Damaged by my education Advice to Literary Critics but neither shows up on my Google Reader feed. I think it has something to do with the fact that my default URLs embeds…
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Damaged by my education
Lynn Barber sums up the life lessons she gained from her ill-fated affair: What did I get from Simon? An education – the thing my parents always wanted me to have. I learned a lot in my two years with Simon. I learned about expensive restaurants and luxury hotels and foreign travel, I learned about…
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Advice to Literary Critics
Don’t read other critics before you write your review or criticism. Why? First, the essay becomes more a reaction if not an embellishment upon what the other critics have said. In college I wrote a great essay about Allen Bloom’s polemic about academia, Closing of the American Mind. While preparing my review, I read longer…