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Love, Sex and Marriage
By Buck Wolf, About.com on 09/03/2008 at 7:36am (UTC) | | | In matters of the heart we say, "To each his own." There are, of course, exceptions.
Perfect Place for 'Beauty Disadvantaged Women'
In Mount Isa, an Australian mining town, men outnumber women five-to -one, and Mayor John Molony wants 'beauty disadvantaged' ladies to know that "happiness waits" if they move to his "bloke-heavy" hamlet. And, yes, women of the Outback called his proposition "Offensive."
Groom Charged With Being Too Close to Bride
When police arrived to break up a quarrel at a wedding in upstate New York, they realized the bride had an order of protection against the groom - an awkward situation all around.
Warning: 86 Wives Are Too Many
An 84-year-old teacher with 86 wives and, at last count, 170 children, says polygamy (at least on his terms) is not for everybody. "A man with 10 wives would collapse and die," he tells the BBC. "but my own power is given by Allah. That is why I have been able to control 86 of them."
New Word for Married Gay Men
Some married gay men feel strange about listing their "Maiden" name on official documents. The The Dutch Language Union has come to their rescue.
Woman Fatally Folds Husband Into Couch
A Russian woman allegedly killed her drunk husband by kicking the handle that activated the folding couch on which he was laying. Emergency workers told a St. Petersburg TV network that he died instantly. Police did not comment.
Polygamous Sect Now Sells Clothing Online
Women of the Fundamentalist Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have gone into business, selling their distinct handmade clothing, just perfect for a night on the town with your husband and a bevy of sister wives.
Va. Police investigate Man-Bride
When what seemed like a loving man and woman walked into a Norfolk courthouse and exchanged vows, they were pronounced man and wife. Now, Virginia authorities are wondering if the person in the wedding dress was actually a man.
Saudi Officials: It's OK to Marry a 1-Year-Old
As long as sex is postponed, a man can marry a 1-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia. One official tells Fox News, "There is no minimum age."
Honk Once for 'I Do'
To make marriage more accessible, the Church of Sweden will institute fun-filled drive-in weddings. These car rallies will include things like a priest singing Elvis tunes and "a bit of Las Vegas" said one official, who noted that 36 couples have applied to exchange vows at an upcoming event.
Here Come 130 Brides
To discourage extravagant spending on individual parties -- and to promote its beaches -- Taiwan hosts its biggest mass wedding. Hopefully, 130 grooms showed up.
ex in a Confessional
An Italian couple in their early 30s apologized to their local biship for having sex in a confessional box during morning Mass.
Man Used Cell Phone to Bug Ex-Girlfriend
A Swedish man has given women reason to think twice before dating a crafty engineer.
Bitain's Oldest Bride Marries
Bess Atkins, 94, married 86-year-old Winston Barraclough in the same place where she married for the first time in 1931, and in doing so, became Britain's oldest bride.
Chinese Don't Orgasm Often, Italians Do
Chinese people are among the least likely to achieve orgasm according to a worldwide poll of 26,000 people in 26 countries reported in Reuters. Italy, Spain and Mexico tied for top place, achieving orgasms 66 percent of the time.
Hell Has No Fury Like a Woman Who Thinks Her Husband Is a Porn Star
A woman chased her boyfriend with a knife after thinking he was an actor in a porn movie that they had been watching together.
Polygamist Women Dress to Be 'Unattractive'
Thinking about wearing a pioneer-style, ankle-length dresses with puffed out sleeves? It's the latest in polygamy fashion.
Indianapolis Tops List of Sexually Satisfied Cities
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but what happens in Indianapolis is apparently much better. Men's Health Magazine has named this Hoosier haven the most sexually satisfied U.S. city, analyzing a host of factors, including sex toy sales and birth rates. Last place belongs to Lexington, Kentucky, where they're apparently not whistling "Dixie".
Court Terminates 8-Year-Old Girl's Marriage
A Yemeni court terminated the marriage of an eight-year-old girl and ordered the child's family to pay about $250 in compensation to her 30-year-old ex-husband. The man gets this money even though the human rights lawyer representing the girl told the court that he forced the girl to have "sex with him after hitting her."
dian Town Offers Guns-for-Vasectomy Plan
Talk about shooting blanks: India is dealing with its exploding population by giving men something that goes boom in exchange for a few quick snips.
Shrinks Say Sex With Patients Is An 'Occupational Hazard'
With HBO's "In Treatment" homing in on a psychologist lusting after a patient, one source finds that 12 percent of therapists admit to sexual contact with their patients. In one recent instance, 35-year-old prison psychologist Magdalena Sanchez, who was married to a Wall Street trader, pleaded guilty to lying about having sex with a 29-year-old alleged gang member in Brooklyn federal lockup.
Singapore to Offer Flirting Lessons and 'Baby Bonuses'
In an effort to boost Singapore's low birth rate, the Asian city-state is offering government-backed course teaching students about flirting and relationships. Singapore has been trying for years to encourage young people to have children, with incentives ranging from tax breaks to "baby bonuses".
Man Leaves Wife, Auctions Off Entire Life
A 44-year-old man in Sydney, Australia is auctioning his life -- his house, his job, his clothes and his friends -- on eBay. "It's time to move," says Ian Usher, who just wants a fresh start after his divorce.
'My Wife's Nagging Left Me Impotent'
An Italian man is demanding compensation from his wife, telling a court that her incessant nagging rendered him unable to have sex.
Got Cold Feet? Pay Up
Weddings cost big bucks, and if you're planning on backing out, a Mexican lawmaker want you to pay a fee to your spurned spouse-to-be.
Study Finds Love Really Is Blind
Could marriage be just a little short-sighted?
Church to Members: Have Sex!
A southwest Florida church issued a challenge for its married members. Decrying the 50 percent divorce rate, Pastor Paul Wirth issued what he called the "30-Day Sex Challenge."
Thai Police Warn Kids: No sex on Valentine's Day
One in four Thai teens tell pollsters that they plan to celebrate Feb. 14 by having sex. Local authorities are so alarmed that they're sending cops and student inspectors to "certain motels" to thwart amorous interludes. | | | |
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JAPANESE -HIRAGANA
Sharpay Evans on 06/13/2008 at 9:58am (UTC) | | | There are four kinds of symbols or characters that make up four Japanese "alphabets":
* Kanji characters
- complex symbols originally from Chinese
* Hiragana characters
- simple, rounded Japanese symbols developed in Japan
* Katakana characters
- simple, angular Japanese symbols derived from kanji in Japan
* Roman characters
- the English alphabet
How many hiragana characters are used in Japanese?
There are 46 hiragana symbols in Japanese, each with a particular sound but with no independent meaning.
How are hiragana symbols used in Japanese?
Each Japanese "alphabet" has a particular function. Hiragana characters play two major roles.
* Creating grammatical structure
A major funstion of hiragana is to add grammatical structure to sentences. One way is in the form of okurigana, the hiragana characters added to the end of words to modify meaning. For example, to change the tense of a verb such as "eat" into "ate".
This means "eat". Japanese for "eat"
The red hiragana characters are different now, changing the tense and forming "ate". Japanese for "ate"
Hiragana symbols are also used as particles (single character "words") to show the relationship between other words in a sentence. For example, in the sentence below the particle "o" indicates that the preceding noun "pizza" is the object that was eaten.
Japanese sentence
(You will notice that there is no subject in this sentence. So who did the eating? In Japanese is often inferred from the context.)
* Showing pronunciation
Hiragana characters are often written next to unusual kanji characters to show their pronunciation in the same way that we have added roman characters to the sentence above. In this case the hiragana characters are referred to as furigana or yomigana. In addition, hiragana is also used to write native Japanese words that have no kanji of their own.
* Other uses
Finally, hiragana are also widely used in books for children too young to be able to read many kanji symbols. They also give a feminine aesthetic to the words of female characters in fiction and video games.
What is the history of Japanese hiragana symbols?
Japanese is believed to be related to the Ural-Altaic family of languages, that includes Turkish, Mongolian, Manchu and Korean. An early form of Japanese existed from about the 3rd century AD. However, it wasn't until later that the Japanese gained the ability to write. The writing system they began to use was Chinese, imported from China and Korea along with a variety of technologies, political systems and Buddhism. It remains in the form of kanji symbols. The difficulty of adapting the Chinese kanji symbols to represent the phonetic sounds of the Japanese language resulted in the two phonetic "alphabets" of simplified Japanese symbols called katakana and hiragana.
Both hiragana and katakana were derived from kanji. The first step in the development of hiragana was the appearance of manyougana (or kanji characters used to indicate pronunciation rather than meaning) in the 8th Century. Hiragana characters were created near the beginning of the Heian Period (794-1192) as simplified forms of whole kanji that conveyed sound rather than meaning. Hiragana was often used by women, who were denied the education in Chinese classics afforded to men and, as a result, Hiragana came to be known as onnade (or women's hand). Interestingly, this development resulted in the explosion of written expression among Japanese women that reached its zenith with Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) by Lady Murasaki
How to write Japanese hiragana
Click on the hiragana characters below and use the animated writing instructor to learn how to write hiragana.
(Macromedia Flash Player required. Click here to download it for free.)
* Note that these marks are not characters, but are used to modify the pronunciation of the character they are written after.
Related Information
(Please note that some sites require Japanese fonts installed. japanese-name-translation.com is not responsible for the content of external sites.)
* Hiragana article
* Hiragana chart with audio
* Hiragana Mnemonics
* Hiragana reading test
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CELEBRITY NEWS IN JAPAN
sharpay evans on 06/13/2008 at 9:28am (UTC) | | | Utada hikaru
肌寒い雨の日 訳ありげな二人
車の中はラジオが流れてた
さよならなんて意味がない
またいつか会えたら 素敵と思いませんか
私の声が聴こえてますか
深夜１時の HEART STATION
チューニング不要 ダイヤル秘密のヘルツ
心の電波 届いてますか
恋人たちの HEART STATION
神様だけが知っている I Love You
忘れなきゃいけない そう思うほどに
どうして 良い思い出たちばかりが残るの
離れていても あなたはここにいる
私のハートの真ん中
あなたの声が 聴こえた気がした
深夜１時の HEART STATION
いつもどこかで 鳴っている二つのパルス
心の電波 届いてますか
恋人たちの HEART STATION
今夜も リクエスト来てます I Love You
私の声が聴こえてますか
深夜１時の HEART STATION
今も僕らを繋いでる 秘密のヘルツ
心の電波届いてますか
*恋人たちの HEART STATION
神様だけが 知っている 秘密
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Romanji: Heart Station by Utada Hikaru
hadasamui ame no nichi yaku ari ge na ni nin
kuruma no naka ha rajio ga nagare te ta
sayonara nante imi ga nai
mata itsuka ae tara suteki to omoi mase n ka
watashi no koe ga kikoe te masu ka
shinya NI ji no HEART STATION
chuuningu fuyou daiyaru himitsu no herutsu
kokoro no denpa todoi te masu ka
koibito tachi no HEART STATION
kamisama dake ga shitte iru I miss you
wasure nakya ike nai sou omou hodo ni
doushite yoi omoide tachi bakari ga nokoru no
hanare te i te mo anata wa koko ni iru
watashi no haato no mannaka
anata no koe ga kikoe ta ki ga shi ta
shinya ni ji no HEART STATION
itsumo doko ka de natte iru futatsu no parusu
kokoro no denpa todoi te masu ka
koibito tachi no HEART STATION
konya mo rikuesuto ki te masu I Love You
watashi no koe ga kikoe te masu ka
shinya ni ji no HEART STATION
ima mo bokura o tsunai deru himitsu no herutsu
kokoro no denpa todoi te masu ka
*koibito tachi no HEART STATION
kamisama dake ga shitte iru himitsu
She is an American born, Japanese Singer-Songwriter. Ever since her debut in 1998, she has dominated the Japanese music scene. She is the best selling artist in Japan ever. Her ability to fluently speak both English and Japanese has helped her create an incredibly diverse fanbase. Under Universal Island Records, she debuted in the western music industry while continuing her Japanese career with Toshiba-EMI.
*** Quick Facts ***
Everything You Need to Know
Given name: Hikaru [hee'kaa'rlu] (ヒカル) - meaning 'shining' in Japanese
Surname: Utada [oo'ta'da] (宇多田)
Nickname: Hikki [heek'kee] (ヒッキー)
Date of Birth: January 19, 1983
Place of Birth: New York, NY, U.S.A.
Height: 158cm
Began carrer in music on / First recorded songs: 1990; as part of family musical group U3 (aka. cubic U) on the album "U*STAR" (released September, 1993; Hikki wrote lyrics of two songs, at the age of 10)
Solo Debut: 1997 - January 1998 (under the name Cubic U)
Japanese Debut (as independant artist): December, 1998 (with "Automatic" single)
International Debut: EXODUS Album - Fall 2004 (Japan: 9.08.2004; US: 10.05.2004)
Ex-Husband: Kazuaki Kiriya (Divorced 2007-Mar-2)
Father: Teruzane Utada (producer/musician who now runs U3music, the family music company; Her manager)
Mother: Junko Utada aka. Keiko Fuji (was a popular enka (Japanese ballad) singer in the 1970s; maiden name Junko Abe)
# Albums: ULTRA BLUE,
# EXODUS (under name Utada; English; U.S. Debut),
# DEEP RIVER,
# Distance,
# First Love,
# Precious (under name Cubic U; in English),
# U*STAR (as part of U3 group)
Concerts:
# Utada United 2006 Concert Tour (Jul 1 - Sept 10, 2007)
# New York Showcase Live @ Skylight Studios, NYC (Feb 23, 2005),
# Hikaru no 5 @ Nippon Budokan Series (Feb 2004),
# Bohemian Summer 2000 Series (Jul-Aug 2000),
# Sokenbicha Natural Breeze Concert @ Nippon Budokan (Aug 24, 1999),
# LUV LIVE (Apr 1-2, 1999)
Record: "First Love" is the best selling Japanese album ever
On January 19th, 1983, in the city of Manhattan, New York, a star was born.
In the fullness of time, she would be known by many names. Among them, "Hikki" by her friends and fans and "(Kazuaki) Iwashita Hikaru" after her recent marriage but in the beginning, she was known simply as "Utada Hikaru".
This is her story...
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In a way, it can be said that the talent for music is written in her genes. Her parents both spent their lives involved with the music industry in some way or another. Her father, "Teruzane Utada" was a producer of music while her mother, "Keiko Fuji" was something of a famous singer in her own right back in Japan who enjoyed a fair amount of fame in the late 60's to early 70's. Her mother's talents as both a singer and a songwriter seem to have passed down a generation and now those very same talents run through the veins of her daughter.
Mr Teruzane's father used to work for Shochiku (a famous Japanese movie company. Mr Kiriya Kazuaki's debut film, CASSHERN, is also under this company) in New York. Therefore Mr Utada Teruzane also moved to NY when he was 16, by his father's influence. In 1979, Ms. Keiko Fuji (real name Utada Junko, maiden name Abe Junko) moved to NY on her own to start a new life after ten years of insane popularity as a Japanese enka singer. There she met Mr. Utada Teruzane, fell in love, and got married. Hikki's husband, Mr. Kiriya Kazuaki (real name Iwashita Kazuhiro), also moved to NY at the age of 15, skeptical about Japan's education system. In 1983, Hikki was born in Manhattan, New York. So in one way or another, each and every member of the family was connected to New York.
As a child, Hikaru ended up spending a lot of time in the recording studio along with her parents which had the effect of immersing her with music from an early age. She began to learn how to play the piano at the age of 3 years and even began to take part in the chorus of her parents recording around the age of 6 or 7. While she enjoyed many tunes that catered solely to young children, her father's influence showed her that there was more to the musical world than simple Disney tunes and even listened to the various popular rock artists of the time. A bit later in life, under the influence of her friends, her eyes were opened to the world of R&B.
Many of the fans that she has today had their eyes open to her existence from her official debut of "Automatic" but not so many are familiar with her activities as an artist before that point; as if she had sprung into existence with her debut with no past musical history to speak of and nowhere to go but forward. This is obviously not the case. As with everything else in the world, Hikaru's story had a beginning and middle and eventually, will have an end.
Hikaru's first forays into the world of music took place with her parents beside her as they formed a group called U3 when she was only 7 years old. It was decided then that each member of the group should have a stage name. Keiko was Ra U, Teruzane became Sking U and finally, Hikaru herself became H* IKASO U. Their first album as U3 was released in 1990; Hikaru was 10 at the time. The album was called U*STAR and Hikaru's contributions to the album came in the form of the illustration on the CD jacket the lyrics for two of the songs on the album. A bit later on, they released two LP's titled "Rainy Day" and "New Life" but weren't very popular and didn't catch a hold before fading from the public eye.
In 1995, the small family group changed their name to "cubic U" and soon after, released another piece of work of which, Keiko did most of the singing. This time though, Hikaru took on a bigger role than she had before and her time was soon to come...
In 1997, Hikaru changed her stage name from H* IKASO to Cubic U to distinguish herself from the name of her family's group for her solo efforts and released a single in the US. In January of 1998, Cubic U (Hikaru) sprung onto the music scene with her debut album, "Precious." All of the songs on the album were in english so perhaps, understandably, it didn't appeal very much to the Japanese public. The album received a fair amount of praise overseas though, foreshadowing and paving the way for what was soon to come...
While recording "Precious" in the studio, she caught the eye of one Akira Miyake who happened to be the music producer of Toshiba EMI and would eventually become her producer. Her voice and her looks while recording caught Miyake's eye and her suggested to her father that perhaps, she should consider a Japanese debut. Miyake continued after Teruzane, slowly persuading him and convincing him until eventually, Teruzane agreed to the idea of his daughter debuting in Japan.
She made her appearence in the October of 1998 during "Music Talk", a semi-annual event sponsored by Toshiba EMI to make known new musicians to the world of music in the hopes of being discovered. Hikaru sprung onto the stage, covering "Sukiyaki," a rather famous song which was originally sung by Kyu Sakamoto. A series of performances which amazed her audience closed with her singing a song that was soon to be released to the public. Needless to say, the audience present at the event were rather impressed.
Near the end of the year, Hikaru debuted onto the Japanese music scene with the hit single, "Automatic." The rest, as they say, is history. Various singles were released, each eating up a huge chunks of the popular music charts, finishing off with the release of her debut album in Japan, "First Love." In an unbelievably short amount of time, Hikaru and her album had climbed up to the top of the Japanese pop music stage and stayed there as her cover song, "First Love" even became the theme song of a television drama. The album "First Love" hit number 1 in the charts and stayed there long enough to hit the record as the most popular debut album released to date in Japan, selling more than 9 million copies. Live performances soon followed, raising her popularity with the crowd to even greater heights.
Despite how busy she was with her musical career, Hikaru wasn't one to shirk from hard work and as such, could still be seen around the campus of Columbia University in the US from time to time. She seemed to relish the relative anonymity that could be had in the US that was simply impossible to find in Japan. As her musical career became more of an issue though, she decided to take a break from her education to focus her attention on her music.
Her various singles and two albums, while unequalling the success of her first album, cut up a respectable swathe of the top-selling charts of Japan. Before, during, and after the release of these albums were various projects and releases, notable among them: her concerts, Bohemian Summer 2000 and Hikaru No. 5; her performance of "Blow My Whistle" with Foxy Brown for the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack; her singing of the theme song for the video game "Kingdom Hearts"; the various singles released and the news of her upcoming US debut has kept her a topic of interest in the music industry and furthermore, has kept her in the public eye. None more so than her marriage to her 34 year old photographer and video director, Kiriya Kazuaki on September 6th, 2002.
Marriage at the young age of 19 was seen as a bold and somewhat rash move on her part and undoubtedly broke the hearts of many a male fan as the teen songstress gave her heart away and tied the knot. Hikaru hastens to assure the public that her decision to wed stemmed from a natural desire to spend her life closer to the one she loves.
While nobody can predict the future with any great deal of certainty, with her current releases from her highly anticipated North American debut, it's safe to say that the future has never looked as bright for our rising star, Utada Hikaru, aptly named after the Light.
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SHARPAY EVANS on 06/11/2008 at 7:54am (UTC) | | |
Xootr Man (Officially uninsurable) Seth majored in Political Science at Yale. He then worked at IBM in the M&A group before he went to Stanford's Business School. Seth flies airplanes (less than he'd like to, but it's expensive!), rides motorcycles, and rollerblades.
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All Things B (Business, that is) Natalie majored in Economics from Stanford. She then worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and Swander Pace Capital in San Francisco before returning to Stanford for business school. After receiving her MBA, Natalie joined Google's Finance team. Natalie is a warm weather junkie, having grown up in Hawaii, and loves soccer, photography, and snowboarding.
Design Whiz (It's off a pixel) Christian majored in Illustration at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. For the past 10 years he has applied his creative visual design "skills" including print, UI, and web design for numerous firms in the bay area. Christian enjoys mountain biking, sketching grungy creatures, and has a passion for vintage VW's.
anita The Staffing One (It's all about staffing) Anita joins us from Google's recruiting team and is looking to bring in awesome candidates to help grow Meebo! She majored in Communication at Santa Clara University and is crazy about good food, pretty pink drinks, and traveling. Anita also loves photography, videography, and the water.
priscilla Pixel Pixie (Works magic) Priscilla cotermed in computer science at Stanford where she focused on HCI and Graphics. She’s interned at various places (NTT Labs in Japan and Apple Computer). Priscilla enjoys swimming, dancing, reading, hiking, lying on the beach, trying out new hobbies, and hanging out in her hometown of San Francisco.
chris Szetopia (Brainstormer) Chris majored in Computer Science at Yale University. Chris joined Yahoo! working on Yahoo! Messenger and also has experience at Microsoft and Google working on MSN Chat and Google Talk. Chris has been working in the IM and online communications space for over 8 years. Chris enjoys tennis, movies, boardgames, and playing with his new dog Sofie.
corey The Guru (It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission) Born and raised in the Bay Area, Corey hails from Webshots/CNET Networks where he was a Senior Customer Support Rep. Before that he was Master of all things administrative at Escalate, Inc., in Redwood Shores. Corey enjoys traveling, reading, movies & music, and spending time with friends and family.
greg Wordsmith (Make it rhyme) Greg began his college career at Cal studying physics and working at the Lawrence Hall of Science teaching and writing science curricula. Two music degrees later, he was editing the Beethoven Journal and singing in foreign languages wearing goofy costumes. Nowadays, he can be found on a soccer pitch, teaching voice, or responding to IMs with grammar and punctuation corrections.
diem Carpe Diem (Sure, why not?) Diem majored in Economics at UC San Diego and later obtained her MBA from Webster University. Prior to joining Meebo, Diem was on the recruiting team at Google. She grew up in beautiful San Diego and prefers sandals over shoes. Diem enjoys creating new recipes from leftovers, traveling (almost 20 countries so far), and believes that ice cream is a panacea.
amy The Cat Herder (You're late!) Amy comes from 7 years at a commercial real estate company where she did everything from Executive Assistant to Purchasing. When not herding the executive team, Amy enjoys running, kickboxing, hiking, playing with her dogs, and taking in a good comedy show or movie.
Interns (2007)
The Tropical Intern (Coconut flavored) Originally from Maui, Matt majored in physics at Stanford and just finished a master's degree in CS, also at Stanford. During his undergrad years, he worked at Bell Labs and CERN, writing software for physics applications. He enjoys the outdoors, traveling, and teaching people how to "high pi" and dance the "towel".
The Stylish Intern (Hippest of us all) Mila joins us this summer on the customer service side. She's got a creative streak that includes transforming an XL Meebo t-shirt into an awesome stylish outfit. Her internship has spanned customer service, JavaScript, and even helping the biz team on mockups. Mila is heading to Berkeley this fall.
Paranoid Tree (Is he CIA... or what?) Tri is pronounced "tree." Tri is currently a senior and ANSA major at Rochester Institute of Technology. He joined Simon and the Ops team. He likes to run and run and run for miles.
Interns (2006)
The Best Dressed Intern (Reppin'; San Antonio) Jason is a junior majoring in Computer Science at Stanford. He also works as a teaching assistant, helping introductory-level programming classes, and a kitchen manager in a student-run co-operative. Jason enjoys trendy music and movies and lying in hammocks.
The Older, Wiser Intern (Whistling with gratuitous vibrato) Ben thrills at the taste of gummy things. His idea of a joke is saying something absurd with such charisma that it cannot but be believed, at least for a moment or two. He does not fear to dabble in extraneous profundity. Ben is majoring in this and that at Stanford.
Code Monkey (It runs as coded) Ryan is a junior majoring in Math & Computational Sciences at Stanford. He knows 314 digits of pi and will write them in the shape of a big pi for you at request. Ryan enjoys rock climbing, squash (the sport), basketball, and generally balling out of control style no big deal style.
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