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The Danish bro
Here in our little world on Emerald St, stereotypes are often a nice topic for a conversation. For example, a significant amount of time has been devoted to analyzing the hipster movement. Since hipsters do have a certain coolness (although often a pretentious one), obviously a couple of non-hipsters like myself and my roommate are…
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Volquartz
People might have noticed that I have embraced my middle name, Volquartz, and use it where I can. Yeah, why not? It IS my name and it sounds cool.
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Democracy (and coffee)
Today, I have some new and exciting statistical research to present: There seems to be a strong correlation between a country’s coffee consumption per capita and its level of democracy. Just look at these lists: The coffee list The democracy list At this point, I offer no possible explanations for this phenomenon. I can only say:…
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123 SPAM
“Spam, it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3”. Actually, 123 is the exact number of spam comments that my comment spam-filter (Akismet) had caught for me when I logged on right now. Usually, the number is about 30-40 so some spammer has been very active in the past couple of weeks. The above statement is…
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He wasn’t
Big Brother was not watching or at least he did not feel that I should get denied a Visa. Anyway, I just wanted to wish everyone (including all you spambots that account for most of my visit counts) a merry Christmas. … I wonder if the spambots picked up on that.