January 31, 2007 at 4:29 pm
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Excerpt from that Facebook event wall (with the Anti-French remarks are deleted):
Me: This is dumb. We can affect climate change by taxing oil more and laxing regulations on trade of nuclear-power technology and coal-gasification technology to highly polluting countries such as China and India.
But then again, if this is going to be such a largescale event, I suppose electricity will be cheaper, eh? Demand goes down, prices go down.
Mmm. Savings.
Person B: Yan, that’s like saying you’ll get people to quit smoking by taxing it more. No, people will find other ways to spend money on oil because they’re so dependent upon it.
Person C: Jinghao has a point there
Person D: I say we just pass the buck to China and be done with it.
Person C: China. I think they might take over in my lifetime.
Me: Maybe we can all stop breathing for those five minutes. Each person oxidizes enough food each 5 minutes to produce 5 g of CO2. If we get a million people to stop breathing for five minutes, we can prevent 5 million grams of CO2 from being produced. Cool, huh?
Person B: Jinghao, you’re really not helping the Asian stereotype, my friend.
Me: On the other hand, if everyone (6.54 billion people) stopped breathing for 5 mins, we prevent 32.7 billion g of CO2 from being produced
Person C: Ah! Hahaha…No, just tell everyone to stop breathing for ten….Population control!
Person E: I like the way you think. I’m going into air traffic control. Perhaps if we all coordinated…
Ha, you think I want to?
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January 28, 2007 at 8:32 pm
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I kinda fixed it, so if you have problems or if you want to (un)subscribe yourself, respond here or figure out how to do it yourself via the subscription manager.
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January 28, 2007 at 8:30 pm
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First off, I don’t even know why exactly I applied to Harvard. I am not going to be a politician or a lawyer, or major in any liberal arts field. So the exact reason is quite elusive to me. Maybe it was the business school, but that’s for graduates. Maybe it was the connections I hoped to forge. Maybe it was the huge cash cache that I wanted for research. But whatever it was, I paid the application fee and now I feel obligated to respond to the interview. After all, my interviewer emailed me and called me to schedule an interview, and after several back-and-forth emails we decided that Thursday was the best day.
But I missed it and an hour before the interview I called her to reschedule–to Monday.
Unfortunately Monday I have badminton practice too. A mandatory one. I like playing badminton, and I don’t like having to drive an hour at 75mph just for one interview with the school I least want to end up at. If I reschedule, my interviewer will be pissed, and I won’t be able to go to Harvard 
Big deal.
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January 28, 2007 at 4:27 pm
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January 28, 2007 at 3:39 pm
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Happy 21st anniversary, Challenger.
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January 24, 2007 at 4:06 pm
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The following is one of the poems I’m supposed to analyze. It’s a piece by John Donne.
Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is;
It suck’d me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
Thou know’st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead;
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pamper’d swells with one blood made of two;
And this, alas, is more than we would do.
O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, yea, more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.
Though parents grudge, and you, we’re met,
And cloister’d in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.
Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it suck’d from thee?
Yet thou triumph’st, and say’st that thou
Find’st not thyself nor me the weaker now.
‘Tis true ; then learn how false fears be ;
Just so much honour, when thou yield’st to me,
Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee.
“Since you won’t have sex with me, I’ll fantasize about our bloods mingling together in that flea’s body. Oh by the way, don’t kill the flea, ’cause doing that is killing three.”
Romantic, huh?
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January 22, 2007 at 6:23 pm
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The blog software has been updated to the new 2.1 version (Code named “Ella” after Ella Fitzgerald) and a new, cleaner and more simplistic design has replaced the old one.
Along with the change I added categories, and I will begin to categorize entries following this.
By the way, subscriptions don’t work so check back when you feel like you need something to waste time on.
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January 19, 2007 at 11:24 pm
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If you don’t see me on AIM by 8 PM call the police and tell ‘em a short Asian dude got mugged and kidnapped by another short Asian dude from his school.
Thanks.
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January 19, 2007 at 10:24 pm
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Just a note: Because Albert is not a Lelander his views are not officially sanctioned by the Math-73 class 
Also, keep the name-blurting to a minimum. Although I admit I do have popular support in this endeavor I understand they do not want to be involved if possible. Direct any questions or commentary you have here, and I promise I won’t censor them unless they are 1. spam (advertising, etc), 2. illegal or 3. otherwise pointless.
Thank you.
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January 19, 2007 at 4:50 pm
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Reacting with violence and irrationality will only prove my point, Kent. Don’t try anything wild at school or elsewhere if you want to be viewed with sympathy.
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