The Stuff I Like
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A list of everything I, Shawn Leslie, like.Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:59:33 +0000http://backend.userland.com/rss092en#21 - Referral Codes from DreamhostDreamhost! Fuck Ya!
And man is this blog DINOSAUR. Hackers, please stay away.
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#20 - Pointless ExperimentationHypothesis: A cell phone will get cold if you put it in the freezer.
Method: Put a cell phone in a freezer, and measure the temperature through bluetooth communication and monitoring software.
Background: I have a super cheap Sony Ericsson K550i with all the usual features: 2.0 megapixel camera, FM radio, and ...
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#19 - Buying Random CDs That Are GoodBack when everyone bought CDs, my favorite thing to do was browsing through the selection at used CD shops. I did this for years, and found a ton of music by combing through the other people's discards. I was never a collector -- I was in this only for the ...
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#18 - Vegetables, Chinese StyleChinese food looks simple to cook. There's nothing to bake; everything is flash fried or steamed. All soup is made in front of you, even at a roadside stand. There's separate bowls for all the ingredients; you order; they mix it all up with hot water and hand it to ...
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#17 - HamburgersI am a food snob. It has to be fresh, spicy, and interesting. I will never eat bologna. But there is one foodstuff that I love despite its pedestrian roots -- the hamburger. It takes a lot of work to cook one the right way. Regular meat, corn flakes, eggs, ...
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#16 - Olympic Torch RelaysI've seen two Olympic torch relays in my life. The first one was for the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. I remember it being very cold. I remember the cheap plastic cups and candles they gave us to share the flame amongst the crowd. I carefully took the burning candle ...
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#15 - Shenzhen
It's the only frontier of humanity left in the world. The new wild west. Whenever I go there, it feels like I'm in Denver circa 1890. I can't prove that this is really like the old wild west, but the energy here is crazy, frenetic, and never ending. There is ...
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#14 - Knowing What Crude Oil Tastes Like When You Don’tYou don't know what crude oil tastes like, do you? I do. You've seen the stuff in movies, but it's usually fake. I've never seen convincing snow in a movie, ever, and I've never seen convincing crude oil in a movie. You probably don't even know what crude oil ...
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#13 - All NightersI love "pulling" all nighters. There has been some boring ones where I spent the night in an office coding up lottery ticket data, but the following is my favorite one. One that will never be topped. My number one all time best all nighter.
The Plan
Spend a night in ...
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#12 - Goldman Sachs Phone Screenswhat about lorenzos on yokohama tires?
what about when people say "take that chain off boy, you're blinding me"?
what about the 40 billion candle light atop the Luxor?
what about drink till we throw up?
what about candy coated helicoptors with leather covers?
what about private planes with 30 inch lorenzos?
- Enron Poem
First off, ...
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