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some other launcher app installed
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changing volume in 3rd party apps
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not completely fullscreen
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netflix app controls
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amazon's video app controls
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amazon's video app
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plex installed
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but launcherpro crashes :(
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soft home button launches intent as a hardware home button would
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installing launcher pro
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k9 e-mail client installed
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jcs.org
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sideloading
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it knew my name
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lock screen
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boot animation
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power led (goes off after a while)
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kindle fire screen
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rubberized back
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power cable
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box opened
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box
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Finished reading
The Making of Prince of Persia
by Jordan Mechner
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The Making of Prince of Persia
by Jordan Mechner
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Finished reading
The Master Switch
by Tim Wu
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"Where he disagreed with the Independents was simply over the fact of their existence."
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"Kronos Effect: the efforts undertaken by a dominant company to consume its potential successors in their infancy."
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"When the major channels for moving information are loyal to one party, its effects, while often invisible, can be profound."
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"Distance creates a freedom to develop inventions that might challenge or even destroy the business model of the dominant industry."
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The Master Switch
by Tim Wu
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Moonwalking with Einstein
by Joshua Foer
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"Everything about Buzan gives the strong impression of someone wanting to make a strong impression."
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"Benjamin Franklin was apparently an early practitioner of this technique. In his autobiography, he describes how he used to read essays by the great thinkers and try to reconstruct the author's arguments according to Franklin's own logic. He'd then open up the essay and compare his reconstruction to the original words to see how his own chain of thinking stacked up against the master's."
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"On the day I became a man, I was really just a parrot in a yarmulke."
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Moonwalking with Einstein
by Joshua Foer
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"I guess I'm hoping for some fleeting recognition of how odd it all must be, this scene without a prologue."
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"We all come into the world as amnesics, and quite a few of us exit just the same."
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"Sigmund Freud first noted the curious fact that older memories are often remembered as if captured by a third person holding a camera, whereas more recent events tend to be remembered in the first person, as if through one's own eyes. It's as if things that happened to us become simply things that happened."
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"Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next-and disappear. That's why it's important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives."
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"The fact that a plane flies overhead probably isn't interesting unless it's the 100th plane to fly overhead that night."
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lauren feeding her robot
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nook color back vs. kindle 3 back
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nook color vs. kindle 3
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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
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In Pursuit of Silence
by George Prochnik
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"Customers exposed to slow music spent significantly longer at table: an average of 56 minutes as opposed to 45 minutes. Another study, performed around the same time at Fairfield University, demonstrated that people increased the speed of their chewing by almost a third when listening to faster, louder music, accelerating from 3.83 bites a minute to 4.4 bites a minute. Stoked with data of this nature, chain restaurants, such as Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Grill, developed computerized sound systems that were preset to raise the tempo and volume of music at hours of the day when corporate wanted to turn tables."
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"“Traditional churches sound beautiful,” he remarked. Some of the most successful recording studios in the world have, in fact, been churches—both the celebrated Columbia and Decca studios in New York City were converted church buildings, the former an Armenian church with a hundred-foot-high ceiling. It’s only in very recent times, Gaydos believes, that church architects have abandoned Pythagorean conventions to create spaces that are, he said, “completely fucked up acoustically.”"
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"“There’s one born every minute,” Heffner sighed, “and most of them seem to own cats.”"
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In Pursuit of Silence
by George Prochnik
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard P. Feynman
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"One example of the principle is this: If you’ve made up your mind to test a theory, or you want to explain some idea, you should always decide to publish it whichever way it comes out. If we only publish results of a certain kind, we can make the argument"
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"You see, I had been brought up by my father against royalty and pomp (he was in the uniforms business, so he knew the difference between a man with a uniform on, and with the uniform off—it’s the same man)."
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"I had been brought up in a Jewish home, so I knew the kind of nitpicking logic to use"
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"I never liked fish when I was growing up, but I found out in Japan that it was a childish thing: I ate a lot of fish, and enjoyed it. (When I went back to the United States the first thing I did was go to a fish place. It was horrible—just like it was before. I couldn’t stand it. I later discovered the answer: The fish has to be very, very fresh—if it isn’t, it gets a certain taste that bothers me.)"
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"I started to walk into the bar, and I suddenly thought to myself, “Wait a minute! It’s the middle of the afternoon. There’s nobody here. There’s no social reason to drink. Why do you have such a terribly strong feeling that you have to have a drink?”—and I got scared. I never drank ever again, since then. I suppose I really wasn’t in any danger, because I found it very easy to stop. But that strong feeling that I didn’t understand frightened me. You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick. It’s the same reason that, later on, I was reluctant to try experiments with LSD in spite of my curiosity about hallucinations."
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"I adopted the attitude that those bar girls are all bitches, that they aren’t worth anything, and all they’re in there for is to get you to buy them a drink, and they’re not going to give you a goddamn thing; I’m not going to be a gentleman to such worthless bitches, and so on. I learned it till it was automatic."
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"“OK. That’s one for one,” I said. “Ya wanna keep on goin’?” The other guy backed off and left. We would have killed each other if the other guy was as dumb as I was."
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"It was a brilliant idea: You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing."
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"I DON’T believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don’t have any ideas and I’m not getting anywhere I can say to myself, “At least I’m living; at least I’m doing something; I’m making some contribution”—it’s just psychological."
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"I said, “What are you moping about?” He said, “It’s a terrible thing that we made.”"
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard P. Feynman
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"He also didn’t like the idea of taking the risk of selling a stock short, as the risk was, theoretically, unlimited. It could only fall to zero, but it could rise to infinity."
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"“Credit default swaps remedied the problem of open-ended risk for me,” said Burry. “If I bought a credit default swap, my downside was defined and certain, and the upside was many multiples of it.”"
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"Why didn’t someone, anyone, inside Goldman Sachs stand up and say, “This is obscene. The rating agencies, the ultimate pricers of all these subprime mortgage loans, clearly do not understand the risk, and their idiocy is creating a recipe for catastrophe”?"
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"In August, in another e-mail, he wrote, “Avant! still makes me feel I’m sleeping with the village slut. No matter how well my needs are met, I doubt I’ll ever brag about it."
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis
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amazon kindle 3 wifi
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footprints of kindle 3 on kindle 2
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side profiles of kindle 2 and 3
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kindle 2 (3g) and kindle 3 (wifi)
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rear case
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box contents
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unboxing
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"Wild animals almost never die of old age"
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"Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complete that it must include a model of itself."
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Synaptic Self
by Joseph LeDoux
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