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Merry Christmas/Happy Chanukah everyone!

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [6:18 PM]

thanks tae-yeoun for your kind birthday wishes, you are so organized.
also, i have posted a bunch of alex's photos (and a few of my own) on my facebook profile. there is tasp acapella, the robot dance, and adrian playing with the pigeons--an amazing collection.

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [10:10 AM]

I agree that "know" may be too strong of a word to use, but I disagree with your choice of words. "To believe," connotes trust without reason, and I would certainly hope that ideas we endorse are ones that we have spent ample time thinking about. In that sense, perhaps "to think" is a better replacement to use than "to believe." I think "to think" would better account for our changing conceptions across diverse disciplines--from variations in literary criticism, to the ever-present possibily of fallacy in scientific theory.

Enough thinking about this: I should so be writing my paper...

posted by Eunice   [4:48 PM]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATTHEW!

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [8:00 PM]

I agree with Bryan (who I keep looking for on Facebook) about the house being farther down the block. The structure of the house and the parking lot both agree better with the larger building with a (tiny) courtyard than the corner indicated on that lovely map.
...

I've been thinking; perhaps "to Know" is the wrong path. You can never "know" if you think about it hard enough. Maybe its enough to believe in the nature of things (immo). ave-

posted by Adrian   [6:01 PM]

3 things:

1. Bryan, you're crazy.
2. classic 95 is ugly. hey, at least i didn't set the color scheme on blue.
3. i had to sell out to itunes in order to steal music from the americans. you should still give me credit for having msn over aim.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [12:26 PM]

oh... and tae-yeoun... how can you use the "user-friendly" new desktop settings. argh, go old school with classic 95 look. hahha. at least you're not using a mac, although... itunes... :S

posted by Bryan Lee   [11:18 PM]

oh... and uh... that point is different from the point Tae-Yeoun pointed out. Although Google Earth might think that the address is at that location, if you zoom in, you can clearly see that it's not. I believe you must proceed further north up the street about four or five houses after the parking lot. (if you don't remember, there was a grassy area, which we stayed away from because of the ants, and then the parking lot, where Jaimie had his car, and then our lovely dwelling in which we would collapse from the heat.)

posted by Bryan Lee   [11:18 PM]

i believe it's at this point... (but im going from the memory of walking back everyday from seminar) - nevertheless, you can see the "secret meeting room" and it's the only one with a pool in the middle.

N30°17’32.28
W97°44’40.56

posted by Bryan Lee   [11:18 PM]

click to zoom.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [11:50 PM]

http://earth.google.com/ ... sweet god. my first thought was, "I gotta find the adpi house." I couldn't do it, bonus points to whoever can.

posted by Adam   [6:56 PM]

4:20am, working on a ridiculously procrastinated final paper, I catch myself typing "if you will" and running it through the MS Word thesaurus.

4:30am, after ten minutes of tedious synonym-searching, I leave it as is. And resist the temptation to add a parenthetical "(and I shall!)."

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [1:20 AM]

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