January 2012
4 posts
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Thinking about tumbling again.
I’ve kept this account to keep 2718 running, but I think I’d like to start blogging again. I want to help use it to reinforce my knowledge though—more educational and contemplative (kinda anti-tumblr in that sense: fewer shorter posts, more in-depth thoughts).
Inspired by this, I suppose.
April 2011
4 posts
Well…
With that, I’ve decided to more or less stop tumbling. I’ll let LTWP sit for a few days before deleting it. ILMS won’t live much longer, probably, but 2718 will keep going.
email y’all!
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Real-Time updates on Lukas' college consideration!...
Less certain about Carnegie Mellon. Or rather, more thoughts on Northeastern.
It goes back to the same basic argument: academics/reputation or freedom/fun? I wonder if Northeastern’s great Co-Op program would let me eschew the ‘reputation’ aspect of it when job searching—I will have had experience in the fields I’m really interested in already. Does that outweigh a name?...
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March 2011
18 posts
Well,
I didn’t get into the universities I wanted to. Now I have to make peace with being myself, rather than my ideal self. I hate that it matters so much to me, but I can’t fix that right now.
Love my little brother. I’m still in Florida, but he texted me this from home:
“Rukas, parents are gone thursday night. I have a subwoofer and there’s a 7-11 2 minutes away. We’re going to party.”
Yaaaaay 14-year-old bros
More Personal Tumblr Ideas
This is a curt list of my favorite ‘personal’ tumblrs. Please don’t be offended if you’re not on it:
inky
eric nelson
kristen wentrcek
brandon evans
kevs
justin ouellette
guy schmidt
I’m trying to connect the dots as to why I like these most. I think they all balance a variety of posts and a mix of super-personal interesting tidbits and things with slightly...
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The Affair to Remember →
I love the Bygone Bureau!
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I’ve been debating the longevity of this blog for quite a while. But recently I’ve truly been cutting down on my online presence and I love it—I’m less distracted and spend less time online. I do real things more often.
So tumblr comes into question… I’m not sure much anymore what I get out of blogging or what others get out of reading my blog. I think it’s...
I like what I’m wearing today!
Feel fresh if I look… fresh.
V-neck sweater with V-neck T underneath (ooh a little clavicle showing!) and khakis that fit me really well. Leather driving mocs. Flyyyy.
Choosing books for spring break! Want to re-read Baker’s The Mezzanine, hopefully Freakonomics and McCarthy’s The Road.
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Travel is always invigorating, even if its only a few hours away.
Fun weekend with friends, met some new interesting people. Listening to good music.
I have three tests on tuesday… awesome. I’ll get through.
This is my last week before spring break. I have around 5 full weeks of high school left. Holy crap!!!
I’ll be going to florida for the first time in my life. I’m...
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Reddit Lifestyle Tweaks →
I like this list?
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Lung Collapsing Lyrics — Percee P
Some of the...
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Flâneur →
February 2011
13 posts
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Far Nearer — Jamie xx
I forgot where I found...
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Shout-Out
My school does a “Senior May” project. i.e. We get to take 3 or 4 weeks off (including finals!) during the month of may to go intern/work somewhere. We’re encouraged to do something we’re interested in or want to pursue in the future.
My original plan was to work for family friends in Christchurch, New Zealand, in a small patent attorney’s office. Buuut the...
sigh
jqsk asked: I am curious: how likely is it that you will be gracing either Brickworld or Brickcon (or some other convention) this year?
I really don’t want to do homework.
I really don’t want to be around people.
I really just want to watch some decent movie with thinly veiled aphorisms and a lead character who is a total boss.
Or play video games.
Or yo-yo! (newly acquired!)
Or read or listen to music.
But this physics lab really needs to get done.
Not following my no-tumblr-during-the-schoolweek-especially-not-busy-ones rule to break news:
Physics lab PRO right here. Hand crafted data regarding Hooke’s law that had an R² value of 1. That’s right. Excel rounds around the 5th decimal place.
Crowning moment.
Social Animal (The New Yorker) →
Very, very interesting.
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Satan is My Motor — Cake
Kenyon Commencement 1990: Bill Watterson →
The cartoonist behind Calvin & Hobbes covers a lot of ground here, and it’s all excellent. creativity, self-motivation, nature of ideas, and more.
Sorry for the philosophizing. (I can’t find the image right now, but I’m reminded of something I saw on reddit of a south park screencap with college students going on about how introductory philosophy classes has “opened...
January 2011
18 posts
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Watchphilosophical pistol-whip into da-sein.
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I lost my planner
maybe its at the restaurant where I ate
maybe it fell out on the ground
maybe I left it in mike’s room
maybe I’m going crazy
I have no idea how to handle my weekend without it
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Inner Knowing — Myka 9
I really, really, really want to build LEGO right now.
Alas. Going digital just doesn’t have the tactile aspect of it I love. (I’d only use it for technique fiddling or, as I did with my himalayan train, planning something I already have in mind but can’t build.)
But right now I have nothing in mind. I just want to fiddle and twiddle and aaauuuugggghhh I can’t.
...
“Instead, we should, as Michelangelo said, criticize by creating. Rather than...”
– Alone With Our Triumphs - Kyle Baxter
For all my assorted internetting, it’s astounding I made it this far before using an actual RSS reader.
But today, after my AP Physics exam, I opened up google reader and plugged stuff into reeder and BAM I’m happy.
Link Rot (The Bygone Bureau) →
This touches on the reasons for my ephemerality online, especially a few years ago. I have to decide how important the pieces of my life I put online are to me, just in case.
There’s just so much I want to keep track of and share, and the internet is great at that, but it’s so easy to get sucked into all of it too. And then, when you take a step back and go “whoah”,...
