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	<title>The Ink &#187; missed connections</title>
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		<title>Learning curves: U-Store food edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Saborio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Mexican food"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[quesadillas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the U-Store microwave is disgusting]]></category>

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<p>A valuable lesson for some intrepid student: never go for the Mexican food encased in the U-Store&#8217;s old, old roaster.</p>
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		<title>The Curious Case of Chatroulette, III: You&#8217;re nice! Or, not.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Saborio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll have to pardon my insistence on Chatroulette. I&#8217;m just consistently amazed at this&#8230; thing, and the interactions it produces. What&#8217;s even better is that some people have made such a connection to people they&#8217;ve met on Chatroulette that they&#8217;ve actually friended each other on Facebook (not to mention posted missed connections about lost opportunities [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;ll have to pardon my insistence on Chatroulette. I&#8217;m just consistently amazed at this&#8230; thing, and the interactions it produces. What&#8217;s even better is that some people have made such a connection to people they&#8217;ve met on Chatroulette that they&#8217;ve actually friended each other on Facebook (not to mention <a href="http://gawker.com/5468903/a-meme-conferred-chatroulette-missed-connections">posted missed connections about lost opportunities on Craigslist</a>).</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 286px"><img class="   " title="Nazi" src="http://funpics.classicfun.ws/var/resizes/Funpics/Chatroulette_Nazi.jpg" alt="source: funpics.classicfun.ws" width="276" height="204" /><p class="wp-caption-text">source: funpics.classicfun.ws</p></div>
<p>A female student who chose to remain anonymous (we&#8217;ll call her Flustered Flo &#8216;12), told us about her own experiences getting to know some &#8216;rouletters.</p>
<p>Flo heard about Chatroulette through some friends and thought it was hilarious the first few times she did it.</p>
<p>&#8220;I generally don&#8217;t tell people who I am or where I am, until I know who they are and where they&#8217;re from,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve only ever told one person that I was from Princeton, and we found out that we knew some people in common. That made me feel safer.&#8221;</p>
<p>She&#8217;s even Facebook friended two college students she met on the &#8216;lette and has kept in contact with them through messages.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not to say it was all rosy, though&#8230; Because, you know, things get complicated in matters of the heart.</p>
<p><span id="more-4736"></span>&#8220;I met a really attractive guy from Turkey, who said that he was training to be a police officer. He was really adorable, and kept pausing to look up what he was trying to say in a translating dictionary,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I was totally crushing on him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Love! Found on the Internet! In the most unexpected of places, Flo stumbled upon her own handsome Turkish law-enforcer. He could move here, she could teach him English, and they could eat Turkish delights for the rest of their days. She swooned, until&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;I friended him on Facebook and then saw that he was a fan of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I defriended him.&#8221;</p>
<p>I think&#8230; Yep. That&#8217;s a dealbreaker.</p>
<p><em>Got any good Chatroulette stories? Drop us a line at theinktips@gmail.com.</em></p>
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