Monthly Archives: February 2008

Phone calls with a friend

By Justin | February 29, 2008

Chris and I talked today. As a result, I am feeling significantly better. Not health-wise, because I am still sick with this stupid cold. But mentally, in terms of regaining a positive balance and outlook. That had been lacking in the past week or two. That is all. Share this entry:

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Posted in Friends | 2 Comments

Life is a game: you either win, or you lose

By Justin | February 24, 2008

And, like Awesome Kong, I would like to win. Photo credit. Share this entry:

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A few things I’m thinking about

By Justin | February 20, 2008

From F. A. Hayek’s 1945 article “The Use of Knowledge in Society”: But those who clamor for “conscious direction”—and who cannot believe that anything which has evolved without design (and even without our understanding it) should solve problems which we should not be able to solve consciously—should remember this: The problem is precisely how to [...]

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Posted in Politics, Quotes | 2 Comments

Reminders of adult contemporary… ick

By Justin | February 17, 2008

Oh man. I just switched to this new radio station that showed up in iTunes a week or two ago, ActivistMusicNetwork-ObamaRadio.org, and the first song that came on was Des’ree’s “You Gotta Be”. Probably a good theme for Mr. Obama’s campaign—”All I know, all I know, love will save the day.” Throw a “hope” and [...]

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Posted in Canadian Indie | 4 Comments

Straylight Run’s “The Tension and the Terror”

By Justin | February 13, 2008

Yum. One of my favorite songs, especially as of a summer or two ago. Actually, it’s the song that made me fall in love with Straylight Run in the first place. Back then I gave it a meaning different than the one I now attribute to it. Even today, though, part of that meaning revolves [...]

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A poor excuse for a post

By Justin | February 13, 2008

I have a lot to write about. Unfortunately, the writing that I must focus on at this moment is my ECON paper, which is due at 11:00 AM, and which I have not yet started (it’s 2:03 AM). But, in the course of searching for people’s names on Google, I came across a reference to [...]

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Mmm… likely food poisoning

By Justin | February 10, 2008

So, I think I may have some kind of food poisoning. About an hour ago I started feeling weak and nauseous, and now I am shivering and have a temperature of 96.5ºF. I still feel nauseous, my tummy is gurgling a bit, and I seem to be developing a headache. I’ve turned my space heater [...]

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Posted in Food, Health | 3 Comments

I need help listing various types of pasta

By Justin | February 7, 2008

My mind went off on a weird tangent today in AMST201, Culture and Politics of the 1850s. One of the characters in the book we were discussing is named Ravoni, and that reminded me of ravioli (and The Game). So, for the rest of class, I listed various kinds of pasta in the margin of [...]

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Posted in Food | 14 Comments

People, not collectivities, have agency and will

By Justin | February 7, 2008

Today I learned that methodological individualism makes so much more sense than methodological collectivism. Thanks, ECON256! Or, I should say, thanks Adelstein… because ECON256 is just an abstraction that we use as shorthand for the collective actions of a certain group of individuals! After all, a class doesn’t actually have the ability to teach me [...]

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Posted in Academics, Quotes | Leave a comment

A day of thoughts, both big and small

By Justin | February 6, 2008

It was actually two days of thoughts, big and small, but I really only remember the things that happened today, so I’m going to just blend them all into one. As you may guess, this is going to be one of those rambling stream-of-consciousness entries that jumps from topic to topic as they come to [...]

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Posted in Friends, Girls, Health, Middletown, Politics, Running, Wesleyan | 2 Comments