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The Daily Clog accumulates various tidbits about Berkeley and college life. We focus on the UC campus, the city of Berkeley and Berkeley’s online community. We give our two cents on all the goings-on—whether you like it or not.

The Dudes

Fiona Hannigan — Blog Editor
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Fiona Hannigan is: The Wikipedia Addict! Blog writer by day, super woman by night, solving all the tough questions, such as: Who is Kyösti Kallio? The fourth president of Finland, that’s who.

Nammi Nadella — Assistant Blog Editor
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As Hermione Granger says, Nammi is “highly logical which allows her to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook.” Some call this “being creepy.” However, some beg to differ. Her interests include hamburgers, yoga and people watching. Whilst people watching, Nammi enjoys pondering why people do the bizarre sh … tuff they do. She believes if you’re going to people watch anywhere, Berkeley is the best pace to do it. People be nuts. Except for Nammi, of course.

Ricardo Barton — Writer
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Ricardo Barton is merely a stereotypical Angeleno who greatly enjoys rooting for the Lakers when they’re winning, abandoning them when they’re losing, sunbathing at that beach on a weekday (whoa!), frequenting restaurants where movie stars dine and perfecting the art of douchebaggery. When he isn’t writing sarcastic and outlandish blurbs about himself, Ricardo can be found “laying in the grass” at People’s Park, or outside of Philz Coffee gulping down gallons of Mint Mojito Iced Coffee while simultaneously tweeting Anthony Weiner, listening to Radiohead and watching Lifetime T.V. movies on his laptop. How talented, yet depressing.

Eunice Choi — Writer
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Eunice is a list of things: can most likely live off solely Smart Alec’s and cereal+soymilk for a month without complaint; is told that she physically looks like a “stereotypical Asian” but then silences everyone with her intended major (English) and shaky Korean; and harbors way too many blank to half-filled journals that are gradually progressing awkwardly towards completion. She still has yet to purchase and complete Portal 2 …

Jennifer Fei — Writer
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Jennifer would rather be her awkward freshman self than attempt to be a normal college student because then at least she’s accepting the fact. She considers multivitamins to be candy and overdosing on them to be rebellious. Much to her friends’ dismay, she refuses to lose the “u” in words like colour and favourite, and swears by the British Columbian way – riding polar bears to school and adopting snow as a major food group. When she is not hanging out with Rick Ross or counting down the hours until Friday she can be found enduring the perils of Crossroads and wondering if she will ever commit to an actual major or end up creating her own … perhaps the sacred language of Canadian, eh?

Kara King — Writer
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Kara is a gangly, shy, inadequate human being who is apt to start speaking in an English accent when nervous.  Because of her societal shortcomings, she prefers to take part in the world of a science fiction novel rather than reality.  Her sinfully boring, simple joys include, reading, writing, reading and writing.  Oh and did we mention reading?  Although a social recluse, she manages to stay up to date with fashionable trends through the help of her MacBook and magazine subscriptions.  Living a life fit for a crazy cat lady, Kara still manages to stay relatively hip.  The sun shining on Memorial Glade and the rich smell of coffee at Café Milano often leer her out of her hermit life style, causing her to take part in the hipster rituals of the outside world.  Blogging unleashes her sardonic side, and gives her a way to share her adventurous risings from the underground into the light of college life.

Bon Jin Koo — Writer
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Grand Master of tomfoolery, wielder of the Gospel and the Doctor’s incarnate: Bon Jin is a good boy. When people ask him whether the glass is half full of half empty, he simply replies, “Why bother? Just down the blasted thing and ask for more!” Mortals can find Bon Jin researching the right amount of pressure needed to make a perfect s’more (about three psi) and drooling over godly over-clocked graphic cards. Bon Jin also likes expressing his love for music via third person.

Andrew Kwok — Writer
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What is black, white and read all over? An article by Andrew Kwok. Many consider Andrew to be utterly uninteresting, but he’s just an average Joe, trying to make it in the business world.  Ever since he ventured into finance, he wears business casual, 24/7 – even to shower. In lieu of being on Facebook, Tumblr, or Tweeter, he watches stock prices rise and fall like the thermostat on an open refrigerator. Now, one could say that 99 percent of Andrew’s time is utilized in new, statistically feasible and productive outlets, but ever since OWS, 99 has been his least favorite percentile. When he isn’t counting sand on Mondays, counting the days until Tuesday (his favorite day), or struggling to write his bio on any given day, sit down to a bowl of plain, unsweetened oatmeal with Andrew to discuss the varying viscosities of tap water from the places he has traveled.

Deborah Lee — Writer
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Deborah Lee is apparently either a mysterious anomaly or the most boring person alive with the difficulty she has in describing herself. At the very least, she is striving to become a better writer and actually justify her soon-to-be BA in English while indulging in incredibly nerdy hobbies in her free time. She is also slowly becoming self-aware of her delusion that procrastination is conducive to getting good grades at Berkeley. Good times.

Ryan Roschke — Writer
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Ryan Roschke is a very strong proponent of food. His hobbies include food, eating, and brunch. Other favorite activities include lying in the sun, making sassy jokes and buying clothes. Legend has it, Ryan sold his soul to the devil a long, long time ago in exchange for cheese fries. But they were like, really good.

How It All Went Down, Yo
The Daily Clog is a blog from The Daily Californian. In the spring of 2006, Arts Editor Soo Oh had a blogerific idea. Then she split and went to France.

That didn’t stop us. Managing Editor Oscar Shine approached an unsuspecting Jonathan Yorde and propositioned him. Then he asked Yorde to manage the Clog. Without a bead of sweat, Yorde passed the feat of pulling a sword out of a stone and he was since known as King Arthur. Wait, sorry, wrong story.

Anyway, Yorde started out with a splendid cast of characters: Angie Baecker, Gerald Nicdao and Lucas Westmaas. They all helped the blog emerge from its womb on October 16, 2006. It was alive and kicking, but no one knew what was to come.

Almost a month later, on November 8, Jeff Bowman dressed up this baby, and the Clog entered the real world, the big boys’ club if you will. The monster was alive.

Now, here we are, ready to bowl. Just as long as it’s not Shabbos. We don’t roll on Shabbos.