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Well, I’ve been using the Colemak keyboard layout for 2.5 weeks now. Colemak is a keyboard layout alternative (as opposed to qwerty). Here’s what it looks like: As you may know, the keys on qwerty keyboards are the way they are for historical reasons–on typewriters, qwerty keyboards minimized the amount of jamming that occurred with […]
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12 Sep 2009I spent this entire week in court on a jury panel. It was my first time serving in a jury and I really enjoyed it. The whole process has really convinced me [more than before] of the fairness of our system. For our case, they brought in about 40 potential jurors and had us introduce […]
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20 May 2009Saw this on Craigslist: i need a job wear i dont haf to do anything but play all the time or do wahtever i want to. i am 34 and a hi scool dropout but my dad is trying to get me kick out of the hous. i hav nevr had a job so i […]
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6 May 2009My first hint that there was something seriously popular going around was yesterday when I got several emails telling me about KFC’s free 2-piece grilled chicken promotional. I checked the top Google keywords and found that it was ridiculously popular. From the top 100 queries, 24 of them dealt with the KFC promotional. Check the […]
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28 Feb 2009Two things about RyanAir, an Irish airline, came out on the news this week that are particularly appalling. Both their rude response to a blogger and a potential new pay to pee policy tell me that RyanAir hates their customers. I got most of this information for you guys from this article at http://gogobudgettravel.com/. Give […]
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13 Feb 2009For the 1234567890 countdown, I celebrated by watching coolepochcountdown. It was pretty exciting. When it was time, the screen flashed and fireworks were shot and music was played! Here’s a screenshot.
On January 15, 2008 a US Airways plane (flight 1549) made a crash landing in the Hudson River. Luckily, there was not a single fatality. Before they leave to pick up their loved ones, many people check the flight status to make sure it’s on time. So I wondered: does it tell them that the […]
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16 Jan 2009Over the holidays, we took a trip through Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California. When we were booking our Los Angeles-Seattle flight, we found that Virgin America was the cheapest flight at $80 per seat. The next cheapest was about $110 on Southwest. For almost all the cases that I’ve checked, Virgin has cheaper […]
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14 Oct 2008I’d say I’m a casual eBay seller. But somehow, everything I list ends up selling for more than the average comparable product. My friend asked me how I do this. Here are my tips: Set your initial price low. That gets people interested. If you set it at the price that you want, nobody will […]
I'm Jon Chin. I love technology, food, and learning. I served a mission in the Philippines and loved it. You probably can't type on my keyboard because I don't have qwerty installed--I use Colemak. I'm obsessed with learning about North Korea and abandoned anything.
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