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"I'm a crossword fanatic. As Pinto says, a huge part of the game is knowing the threes and fours that are likely to spring up. After a while, you'll learn that if you see the word 'Georgia' in a clue, you need to immediately fill in SSR; if you see..." [
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"Aha! I knew that this would make its way to Metafilter sooner or later. Didn't think it would happen until Fodor's book on evolution came out, though. Get ready for a long post.
Disclaimer first. I took a seminar with Jerry Fodor on this topic..." [
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"I like these sorts of questions. They come up every so often with regards to one author or another. Should we publish the letters about dirty panties that Joyce wrote to Nora Barnacle? Etc.
Personally, I'd much rather that the work not be..." [
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"I say I'm a grad student studying philosophy. I get three questions all the time:
(1) "So, what's your philosophy?"
(ugh)
(2) "What are you going to do then, teach?"
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"Pavement recorded a similarly abusive version—full of forgotten words, dropped notes, and disdainful chuckles—during a late-'90s BBC appearance.
To be fair, they do that to their own songs too...." [
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"Graduate schools will care not a whit about work experience, volunteer work, and accomplishments that are not related to your field of study. No one cares that you held down a job (who hasn't?). Don't put it on.
Everything I say from now on..." [
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"Film critics pull a twofold duty. On one hand, they need to recommend movies for others to see; on the other hand, they need to write essays that are interesting in their own right.
I've never particularly cared about the first duty, and I used..." [
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"Great comments in this thread.
My favorite experiment linking physical and mental exercise given in a classic study by Yue and Cole (1992). I was thinking about it earlier today, so this thread is timely. Yue and Cole compared increase in muscle..." [
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"I wish Favorites were called Bookmarks or something like that. As it is, people use them to vote for arguments that they agree with, endorse attacks on other users they dislike, rank standing in the community, etc. That's not what they're there for...." [
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""Perfunctory" is such a sesquipedalian-ass word to append "-ass" to." [
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"It's like a fractal... it never fucking ends!
"my version or interpretation of Marvel Universe is different from the official version, since I interpret MU stories differently, as I rarely trust either the narrator to be truthful in telling a..." [
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