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Sticking it to the man, sort of
Up until last week, my wife and I rebelled against conformity by subscribing to DirecTV instead of Comcast. Two years of blissfully shaking my fist at the lazy monopoly that is Comcast, the local cable franchisee...HD precipitated a sea shift in the pop household. More importantly, the desire to see ND play in HD precipitated the desire to get ( Read more... ) -
As we near the start of football season, a wish
The Sports Guy has a fabulous column on picking an EPL team (something about getting addicted to soccer while having the World Cup on as part of his morning routine). I'm not willing to make a commitment to an EPL team yet but I found this paragraph from TSG's article to be thought provoking. If the gods of college football are listening, please ( Read more... ) -
43 Down is a dirty word
The people upset over this are linguist snobs, but it is an interesting history of the word. Gives scUM a whole new meaning.
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A New York Times crossword gaffe.
By Jesse Sheidlower
Posted Thursday, April 6, 2006, at 12:25 PM ET
If you finished Monday's crossword puzzle in the New York Times, your answer for 43 Down, clued as "Scoundrel ( Read more... ) -
The New York Times on my soulmate
Not my real soulmate, of course, but a person with similar life goals and ambitions as mine. Meet "Vandy Lance." I could only imagine what Notre Dame Stadium would be like with 80K Vandy Lances instead of the Chardonnay sipping, brie eating, plaid pants wearing, no cheering spectators.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/sports/baseball/02cheer.html ( Read more... ) -
DST in South Bend
So far the only problem I have had with daylight savings time in South Bend was figuring out how to set my clock in my car.
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Woo-hoo, some sanity in politics
Indiana's state house passed legislation that allows for the direct shipment of wine to consumers (from both in-state and out-of-state wineries). This was in response to last years SCOTUS decision that that it was unconstitutional for a state to allow in-state shipments but not shipments from out of state. The officially sanctioned leaches ( Read more... ) -
Are you celebrating Pi Day?
Written in the USA date format, March 14 is an unofficial celebration for Pi Day derived from the common three-digit approximation for the number π: 3.14. It is usually celebrated at 1:59 PM (in recognition of the six-digit approximation: 3.14159). Some, using a twenty-four-hour clock rather than a twelve-hour clock, say that 1:59 PM is actually 13 ( Read more... )
