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Floor Plans

David Xia — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:49:37 +0000

A friend recently wrote to me that he's having a great time trespassing in dangerous buildings undergoing construction. He even e-mailed some photographs of the floor plans he filched. Show-off.

CDC Updated Growth Charts

David Xia — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:55:06 +0000

In my previous post, I talked about how I compared my childhood growth to the Center for Disease Control's 2000 growth charts. Some questions I had while doing this:

My Mother’s Growth Records

David Xia — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:28:57 +0000

If she wasn't my parent I would've filed a restraining order. It was freaky yet touching.

Read My Article

David Xia — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:12:13 +0000

Check out my article on West Side Independent, a news website devoted to the West Side.

Chilly Monday Calls for Warm Music

David Xia — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:35:33 +0000

Shiny Social Bookmarking Buttons

David Xia — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:11:01 +0000

I'm talking about the shiny social bookmarking buttons at the bottom of the post. If the New York Times has them installed on their website, I can't go wrong, right?

Rinse, Please

David Xia — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:25:58 +0000

If Mother Teresa had to spend 8hrs/day, 5 days/wk spent with her digits enmeshed in some poor mope's nasty, halitosis-ridden orifice, her eyes staring at bleeding gums and ossified plaque, even she would go crazy.

“Johann Hari: How to spot a lame, lame argument”

David Xia — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:48:18 +0000

Johann Hari, a reporter for the UK's The Independent, tells it like it is in his article on how to detect and deflate a lacking rhetorical device.