OK, so, the final episode of the Sopranos got 11.9 million viewers.  Let's call it 12 for consistency's sake.  Now, obviously, not everyone has HBO.  But 12 million in a country of 300 million still strikes me as really quite a small amount.  Not to get all management consultant on yo'ass, just to put that into proportion for you, that's 0.04%.  It ( Read more... )

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"Hell, we really done ourselves up good here....we've got all the major food groups: wings, steak, potato and sundae."

Here, here.

Last night was.  Crap. 

Today it is 74F, 68% humidity, and mostly sunny.

Does that prevent it hailing in the middle of the afternoon?  No, it does not.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6746051.stm

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The horror that is the 'Princeton Tory' has recently made itself known to me.  Specifically by random copies of it festooning the 45 year reunion tent in an attempt to solicit donations.

Herewith the blog, but sadly it is mildly less awful than the actual nasty, so I must leave you to imagine:

http://princetontory.blogspot.com/

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Princeton is festooned in triangles.  And they move around.  I know not what their meaning or purpose is, but I suspect them.


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It's 32 degrees.  32 with 50% humidity.  And I have a hangover.

Some enemy hath done this.

(EDIT: Helpfully the American meterologists have coloured in their map of the East Coast in orange to illustrate the extreme heat.  But in the great tradition of weather folks they are merely describing it as 'quite warm'.)