What We Want in 2009
What do we hope to see in 2009? I mean this both personally, and in reference to our society as a whole. In this post, I am going to talk first about technological expectations, then some of the other...
View ArticleThings that annoy me
Here are a few things that really irritate me: inconsistent usage of Canadian/American/British spelling; for instance, writing ‘favour’ throughout but slipping in something like ‘neighborhood’ bad...
View ArticleHow do you deal with stress?
It’s very difficult to live life entirely without stress. No matter how calm and peaceful one wishes to be, there will always be events in one’s life that test the limits of psychological endurance. I...
View ArticleGenerosity (?)
Prologue To give you some background before I go into the content here, I had just concluded a successful interview (the first of two) and was stopping by the library on my way home. The trip from...
View ArticleOn coffee
So. It’s been quite a while since I last posted, so I decided to put up something that’s been on my mind: coffee. McDonald’s Canada (@McD_Canada) has been offering free coffee all day from March 1 up...
View ArticleHow would you shorten your name?
Happy New Year! We’re now in the year 2011 — which I propose is “twenty-eleven” as opposed to “two thousand eleven”. It’s time to answer some serious questions. I’ve been bothered recently (very...
View ArticleMy experience with American health care
Right now*, I stand among several dozen patients at Health Center #3, operated by the Philadelphia city government to provide clinical care to residents in a way that is available even to those without...
View ArticleReflections on Penn
I’ve been attending classes for nearly three weeks here at the University of Pennsylvania, and in this short month I have already experienced many aspects of college life: meeting new people, making...
View ArticleThe easiest way to clean up eraser shavings
Every pencil-and-eraser user’s greatest annoyance is getting rid of eraser shavings. The top YouTube result for “how to remove eraser shavings” is a rarely-viewed video (~300 views right now) showing...
View ArticleTaxes
I don’t hate taxes. I just hate filing taxes. The IRS and the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue have made perhaps the most convoluted forms and instructions I’ve ever used. No wonder tax preparation...
View ArticleMore photos from trip to China soon
I haven’t had much time to blog recently — but more photos from Days 2-5 are coming soon.
View ArticleMy FOIA request to US Customs and Border Protection
I was bored. At 4 in the morning. And I had just received a summary of a story about someone who sent an FOIA request to US Customs and Border Protection. So I decided to do the same. Here’s a redacted...
View ArticleForm 1098-T: an example of international students’ special needs
I am not a tax attorney or tax consultant. I’m merely an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Co-Chair of the International Student Advisory Board. IRS Form 1098-T, which...
View ArticleChanging this site’s tagline
Previously, my site tagline was “News, technology, life, and more.” As of today, it is now “Technology, law, life, and more.” When I first started this blog in 2008, I labelled it “A blog discussing...
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