December 2008
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A letter from my accountant.
Steve - Are you kidding me with this? Itemized: 1 - No, claiming you’re raising money for a “local orphanage” does not mean you can write off an egregious amount of business time spent playing “sponsored Solitaire”. 2 - When I say you need supporting evidence, I mean things like reciepts and invoices. Not crude drawings of stick-figure children and what I...
Dec 31st
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Dear Neighbor
midnight. Oh, you’ve come back. I assume the carousing continued after you’d decorated the hallway and stumbled down the stairs, spilling the can of beer as you went. I cleaned that up. You’re welcome. I am very sorry you didn’t get enough musical entertainment at any of the (presumably multiple) pubs, clubs and bars you frequented. By all means play as many bass-heavy...
Dec 30th
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Brant Charles's Commencement Speech To MIT.
I’m Brant Charles, and 14 years ago I was just like you. Now I’m a meta-physicist. Being a meta-physicist is awesome and it isn’t even hard. Newton discovered gravity whilst lounging under a tree. Einstein came up with most of his theories by daydreaming. Stephen Hawking just sits in a chair all day. And the stuff we do is fun, too. Galileo? Dropping the feather and the...
Dec 29th
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