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Just doing a quick test to see if my new LJ app for the iPhone does indeed work.
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The Joys of the WBC
Besides the opportunity to second guess bad decisions by Team USA, there's always playing the name game, such as with my personal faves, the Korean team. Here's the batting order for Korea in their loss to Japan last night ( Read more... ) -
You've soiled your pants for the last time?
It seemed silly to be in Orlando and not do something fun, so a guy I do business with and I spent the day at Universal. Good times ( Read more... ) -
Super Bowl Quick Notes
Wow. Now that's a way to end a Super Bowl! With our second come-from-behind-to-regain-the-lead-with-35-seconds-left game in two years, it's going to be hard for next year's Super Bowl to even compare. And this year, with two teams that almost anyone can root for (as opposed to last year's Giants versus the Evil Empire matchup), it was just that ( Read more... ) -
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- Watched the Oath of Office and President Obama's speech on the projector in one of our conference rooms. I got a little misty. Great speech, with a good balance of somber and hope. After having sat through a class dissecting JFK's Rice University speech, I couldn't help but notice it was much more simply organized than JFK (and you really have ( Read more... )
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Riding with the Veep (and other holiday matters)
Quick catch up while watching the end of the Noles' whupping of Wisconsin ("Badgers? We don't need no stinking Badgers!")...
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Boston follow-up
Ok, so I left at 1:15 Thursday to give myself plenty of time to make it to the train station before my train to Boston (from which I wrote the last entry). So I spent a good twenty minutes or so lounging in Club Acela until heading for the platform. My colleague, Ken, who I tried unsuccessfully to talk into taking the train with me, left work ( Read more... ) -
Random stuff
Some notes while rolling through Connecticut on my way to Boston:- I have to buy new noise canceling headphones. Random bursts of static does not count as "noise canceling" in my book. This is a mission for before I head back south Saturday.
- Sometimes a particular line will just capture a moment so well that it burns that particular work into my ( Read more... )
- I have to buy new noise canceling headphones. Random bursts of static does not count as "noise canceling" in my book. This is a mission for before I head back south Saturday.
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TiVo Guilt? Not me
CNN, in wont of anything actually happening in the world (um, wait...oh, never mind...) put together this weighty piece on the new malady dismantling Western society ( Read more... )
