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Just Click the Youtube Link

Having a website where you duplicate postings to your Youtube channel makes no sense. I’m not saying it made sense years ago when I registered this domain either, I’m just saying it certainly doesn’t make sense now. I spent a month learning how to tinker with this thing so it[…]

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In Love with your Philosophy – Shape of You Parody

Considering the emphasis in the original song on being in love with your body, I thought an intellectual take on the song would be fun–specifically philosophy. I’m really not sure what the overlap is between people who are familiar with the original song and video, and people who are familiar[…]

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Structural Engineering Medley

For kicking off the Youtube channel, I figured I’d get the most oddball niche video out of the way first: a video about the profession of structural engineering. The channel itself will mainly develop around musical comedy and sketch comedy for the time being.

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Pride Sculpture

Someone at the office approached me to “do something creative” for pride weekend. As usual, I started with a small idea and then got progressively more ambitious with it till things were out of control. I’m pretty happy with the result though; I’ll add it to the Art section shortly with[…]

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Three Tragedies

I The Obsolescence of Remedy There is a cure for almost everything. Rather, there is a prescription for every condition, no matter how uncommon the condition, or how worthless the prescription. Empathy guarantees it. The market guarantees it. Most of us are familiar with the cure for most things, and the[…]

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Tale of the Visible God

In some possible world W’, to be distinguished from W, the actual world, there was a god, who was called God. His appearance was that of a pillar of fire and light, and his voice was an impressive baritone, which issued forth to four arbitrarily-chosen points upon the surface of[…]

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Vocablabber Malapropisms

I’ve been thinking for a while about the propensity to substitute common words with similar-sounding, but more obscure, words (often in an effort to sound intelligent). However, the substitute is a different word and does not mean the same thing, which often results in a malapropism. Urban Dictionary has a[…]

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