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The Coffee: August 2012
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Thursday, August 30, 2012. What to Do When You Are Caught Plagiarizing. As strange as it seems to be a fan of a news magazine columnist, I have to say I'm a fan of Fareed Zakaria. I followed his columns when he was at Newsweek, and followed his career to Time and CNN. His writing style influenced the way I write prose on my blog posts, aiming for his balance of opinion backed up with solid statistics and research. So it was a bit distressing to learn, from Zakaria himself. August 10 near New York, NY.
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The Coffee: April 2011
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Sunday, April 17, 2011. The point of a good Photoshopping is for people to not be able to tell that it's Photoshopped. In this one case, however, I'm just so pleased with the subtleness of the job I did that I can't help but show it off. A few days ago I went looking for a new Facebook profile pic. People probably see me far more often on Facebook than they do in real life, so a good profile pic is a reflection of myself to the world. Here's the original image I got:. Sunday, April 17, 2011. Here's a map...
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The Coffee: May 2011
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Thursday, May 12, 2011. The Pacquiao-Mosley Effect on Wikipedia. I actually didn't even watch the Pacquiao-Mosley fight on the day itself- first time I missed a Pacquiao fight in at least five years. Anyway, here are a bunch of interesting graphs showing the spike in Wikipedia page views for the articles related to the fight. All of these graphs are from the Wikipedia article traffic statistics tool. Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley. The main article for the fight got 62k views on the big day. The lead si...
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The Coffee: June 2012
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Thursday, June 28, 2012. What's With the Serifs on Mitt Romney's Logo. Just a curious thing about Mitt Romney's presidential campaign logo. Over here is a rendition of Mitt Romney's logo as seen on his official campaign website. Here's my re-creation of the logo in Photoshop, using the same Trajan typeface. And the letter spacing condensed to match the official logo as best as I could:. Part of me thinks it must be an intentional move in order to convey some subtle message, but I can't imagine what.
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The Coffee: August 2011
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011. A friend recently posted on Facebook:. Stop comparing yourself to others.start loving yourself :). Funny I compare myself to others when I want. To feel good about myself. Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Links to this post. Wednesday, August 17, 2011. 712,958 Steps in 12 Weeks. A few months ago at work we got an irresistible offer to join a program meant to motivate people into keeping fit. Irresistible because it's completely free. My total: 712,958 steps. Pedometer steps per day.
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The Coffee: September 2012
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Saturday, September 1, 2012. My Philippines Island Hopping Update. Last weekend I got to go to Cagayan de Oro for a day to attend a wedding, marking the first time I visited Mindanao, our country's second largest island. The visit was less than 24 hours, but at least I can say I've been there. This is what the map of the Philippines would now look like if it only included islands that I have set foot on:. Major islands I've visited (land area over 500 sq. km):. Panglao (Panglao, Bohol). Links to this post.
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The Coffee: March 2014
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Thursday, March 27, 2014. What the hell happened here? While sightseeing around Metro Manila on Google Maps I found this bizarre monstrosity just east of SM North EDSA in Quezon City. View in Google Maps. How did they get into this situation where the have this wild mishmash of irregularly shaped buildings of different colored roofs and no apparent roads? Is there some inherent inability for Filipinos to think in straight lines? View in Google Maps. Thursday, March 27, 2014. Links to this post.
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The Coffee: July 2011
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011. Transfer Passengers, Delayed Flights, and Running Through NAIA-3. Once upon a time, Cebu Pacific. Proudly advertised that their flights were 95% on time. Can't remember if that was the right figure exactly, but the point is that punctuality was their strong point. Not that it should matter much- It's a wonder at all the humans can travel through the clouds at 800 km/h, so who cares about a delay of a few minutes. Yet, things always seem to go wrong when it matters the most. Alrea...
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The Coffee: What's Really Going On with the MRT-7?
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Friday, August 30, 2013. What's Really Going On with the MRT-7? Manila's MRT-7 would be quite the dream. The project would have a 23 km rail line with 14 stations, reaching from the North Avenue Station at Trinoma, up to the final station in San Juan del Monte in Bulacan, and a 22 km road connecting that station to the North Luzon Expressway. Yet every time I hear about the project in the news it's still just months away from the start of construction. Some samples of the news over the years:. In a discl...
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The Coffee: October 2011
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Monday, October 3, 2011. Then-and-Now Pictures of World War II with Google Street View. Here are some WW2 era pictures from The Atlantic. Placed along with the equivalent view today in Google Street View. Amazing how little things seem to have changed in some of them, over the past 65 years. American soldiers march along the Champs-Elysees in August 1944, with the Arc de Triomphe. Parisians scatter for cover as a sniper fires in the place De La Concorde, August 1944. Monday, October 03, 2011.
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