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You’re Not Smart Enough

My roommate tells me nearly every day: “I’m dumb.” Sometimes he uses variants, such as: “I’m stupid.” I disagree, but that’s beside the point. Clearly, this kind of perspectives are a matter of opinion. But I do have a point I want to make: every time I hear him say something to the effect of…Continue Reading…

Kids are film critics

A short audio clip (about one minute) from This Week in Media episode 46. I thought it was amusing :) [mp3]http://www.intelliot.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/twim46cut.mp3[/mp3] “My daughter looks at it a couple times. At the time, she’s like 10 years old. ‘I think it’s pretty good, but there’s this black fringing around the edge of it…’ We went to…Continue Reading…

EVK has the best music

One of the two residential dining halls here at USC is “Everybody’s Kitchen”– also known as EVK. Sometime over the past two years, I think they switched to a new music provider. I really like the music they’ve been playing for the past couple months. It seems to be all of my favorite songs! Here’s…Continue Reading…

Publish your book online

Leo Laporte and Amber interviewed Scott Sigler on net@nite episode 17, “There’s something wrong with the sheep.” This really inspired me to someday publish a book online, and I think you should definitely do it right away if you have the time to do so. And let me know if you do! I’d be happy…Continue Reading…

Little features make a big difference

I was using iTunes just now, and I wanted to locate the audio file for a podcast on my computer. So I right-clicked its row and selected “Get Info.” That brings up a window which has the path of the song, but this field is not left-click selectable. (I use iTunes 7.1.1.5.) I was afraid…Continue Reading…

How to name your computer

Good guidelines for choosing computer names.