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The school district here in my home town has a pretty efficient system for making automated phone calls to parents of students in the district. We get phone calls from my daughter’s school fairly frequently, usually about things like:

School closure announcements
Special events at the school
Report card reminders
Emergencies and/or high-importance messages

Tonight, we got a recorded message [...]

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Parker and I were talking yesterday about an article that I’d written for The Tech – MIT’s student newspaper – back when we were there. It seems their archive link is busted, so I’ll post the article here for posterity.
Interesting note: the article was published on September 11, 2001. *shudder*

The Athletic Enterprise
A few weeks [...]

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Nancy Pelosi finds the use of dangling participles acceptable, and that’s unacceptable.

Pelosi, at a news conference in San Francisco, said Cheney’s criticism of Democrats was “beneath the dignity of the debate we’re engaged in and a disservice to our men and women in uniform, whom we all support.”
Can you spot [...]

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I’ve been talking about starting up a podcast for far too long…and the time has come to make good on that promise.

So, it’s with great fanfare that I announce our new podcast: Turnip Soup. Turnip Soup is a weekly podcast where my buddies and I will talk about the sorts of things that show [...]

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During a meeting earlier today, my MDA buzzed the long buzz. I can tell by the duration of the vibration what type of notification I’ve received: short buzzes are incoming phone calls; medium buzzes are text messages; long buzzes are email messages, and really long buzzes are appointment reminders.
The long buzz was for a [...]

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