Oliver Mayor

Melatonin always gives me freaky dreams, and I end up sleeping more than usual.

(though I could have gone without the weird racists-in-denial commenters) http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012...

Nice post on Tokyo by Seth Roberts. http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012...

How much time and energy do I devote to myself? How much time and energy do I devote to my appearance? How often do I confuse these?

Question when overwhelmed by envy or disappointment: is this what you want? Or is it what you want your player avatar to have?

Coursera: probably supposed to read as "cor-se-ra" but I keep seeing "Course-Rah", rhymes with "Horse-Ra" the evil undead equine mummy king

Jeff Atwood leaving Stack Exchange http://www.codinghorror.com/blog... @codinghorror -- Thanks for making so much possible!

And when you think about it, language has always been about the cloud. When we humans comprehend a word or a sentence, a whole network of knowledge and memories is invoked. The pattern of activation is likely to follow the famous power law. In such a distributed environment, there is no strict central control. The scattered and haphazard nature of... - http://olimay.tumblr.com/post...

Well what do you know. Firefox is loading up things quite a bit faster than Chrome, and no longer eating kanji.

"And when you think about it, language has always been about the cloud. When we humans comprehend a word..." http://olimay.tumblr.com/post...

"Being proud of of demolishing [absurd] 'arguments' is sort of like being proud of dunking on an infant." http://www.cracked.com/blog...

7 stupidest things that make people proud: http://www.cracked.com/blog... (HT Robin Hanson and Dale Sikkema)

Good day for language practice? http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki... #sopa #ajatt

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Plymouth, UK proposal targets foreign students movement in city center, ability to enter stores: http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Plymout... (via Ben M.) #wtf

'Trespasser fatality.' Someone hit on the track by an Amtrak train in front of us. #njtransit

(I guess what I'm a little underwhelmed by is the literate public's ability to deal with scientific and mathematical concepts=I is eliti ...

So underwhelmed with most popsci books these days. Still, an occasional gem slips past editors and onto shelves.

Leave me anonymous admonitions here: http://t.co/TUJo6hgl

Instead of the usual muzac, they've put on a song about getting drunk on christmas sung by country hicks.

I'm going to pick up Bryce at 7.

More importantly, Santa is an academic? http://t.co/usxRa7To

RT @shaanakbar: "If power is to be handed over then Jong-un is the best for it.He has superb physical gifts,is a big drinker and never admits defeat." #DPRK

Dictators a'topplin these days.

4-(2-aminoethyl)benzene-1,2-diol

Okay, so *now* everyone knows about the Norwegian butter shortage.

Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews: Teachers Narc'ing on Santa - lazybookreviews: Yeah. Santa is a bigot. http://t.co/aHHBH0A6

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"English butlers, synonymous with Reginald Jeeves in the novels of P G Wodehouse, are answering more..." http://t.co/FxpwdzQu