December 2009
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Gratitude 4
I would be truly remiss if I let 2009 close without my annual gratitude post. Thanksgiving and this holiday break have been quite busy, spending all of my free time with Mariam. But she is currently sleeping upstairs, so I will take these few moments to say what I was grateful for this year:
sappy blogs written at 9 AM in northern Mexico
Mariam
learning to respect myself again
new friends...
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My Avatar review
Ok obviously I’m a bit behind, but I finally saw avatar tonight. It was definitely an entertaining movie. A few thoughts:
This was my first “Real-D” 3D movie. A few hours later my eyes still feel a bit strained, but it made it a very fun experience. Hopefully that technology will get better soon.
The story was basic and predictable, but not terrible. This was really what I...
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Things I will miss about Mexico:
unlimited access to quality Mexican food
spending everday with my amazing girlfriend getting to know more about her family and culture
Things I won’t miss about Mexico:
Mexican buses/taxis on Mexican roads
not being able to flush toilet paper down the toilet and learning what the wastebasket next to the toilet is for
a national scarcity of...
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http://www.donorschoose.org →
Thanks to a suggestion from my sister, this has been me and my family’s charity of choice this Christmas. It is a pretty cool site: teachers in impoverished areas post requests for school projects and classes and donors can choose one to fund. Education has always been very important to me so I was excited when I heard about it. This is the project I decided to fund:
Do You See What I...
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Status update on my teeth
brushed.
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I forgot to brush my teeth today.
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My operating systems professor just sent out an email with feedback for a presentation we gave on Wednesday. It included comments from other students. One of them was “awesome!!” which I had jokingly written down on the feedback form.
Well, I thought that was funny, so I hit “reply all”, removed my professor’s email address from the “to” field so it...
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Per Tianna's request
Resolved: I, Ryan Johnson, will not change the URL of this blog any time within the next 365 days nor will I change the blogging platform any time within the next 365 days. However, I maintain the right to change the theme of this blog at any time.
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“Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money or for selfish aggrandizement,...”
– William S. Clark, to his students at Sapporo Agricultural College on April 16, 1877.
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Stallmanism →
I wonder if I should demand recognition seeing as I coined the term and laid out it’s basic religious tenets back in 2005.
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Blog Archive →
My blog archive is now up, though in a very… raw state. It was generated by a python script I whipped up yesterday afternoon. I still need to cleanup a few of the source files and add some css, but at least it’s there.
I also fixed my .htaccess so that any links to the old permalink style will work with the new ones. ex:
http://www.iambismark.net/2009/12/06/my-girl/
now...
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Markdown Macros in MarsEdit
I have decided to move over to tumblr for my blogging needs (more on this later). tumblr supports writing posts in Markdown, which I have come to appreciate as a nice way of writing text. For writing posts, I use MarsEdit, which even has a built in Markdown filter to give me a preview of how things will look.
Mowever, the default markup macros output HTML. Seemed a little pointless, so I...
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testing out the new blog...
Messing around with my blog again, just to annoy Tianna.