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I just watched a video of J.K. Rowling’s commencement speech at Harvard. It’s very good.
Watch the video here on the Harvard Magazine website. You can also watch it (in bits and pieces) on YouTube.
Full text below.
Text as prepared follows.Copyright of JK Rowling, June 2008

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the [...]

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Pictionary post, just to keep the embers burning…

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I had a horrible headache yesterday afternoon at work.
So I pumped my bloodstream full of analgesics.
Last night I slept like a baby.
Gotta love OTC drugs!

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That’s the tag line used by the California Lottery (I think).
So, what would you do? Let’s make this a little bit less cliché. No typical answers like “I would buy a house in Atherton” or “I would go on a round-the-world tour” or “I’ll get a bright yellow Lamborghini Murcielago”.
No “I’ll buy [...]

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Friday last week I went with a few coworkers to Nola’s in Palo Alto for drinks. There, a coworker told us about camping at Angel Island and how cool it was. My interest was piqued, so I sort of filed that bit of info away in my noggin.
Last night I remembered my coworker’s [...]

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