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Baseball Log #9: Gambling Makes Everything Better. Except the Game.
Postseason prediction: Indians over Diamondbacks. Someone in the Rockies organization is tempting fate by giving God credit for influencing sporting events before the season's over. I would credit a sudden collapse to the "Kitna Effect ( Read more... ) -
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"This government does not torture people." -- G.W. Bush
Man, we Canadians have enough problems already without Bush thinking he runs our government instead of his own. -
Pub Quiz
I'm posting our pub quiz from Tuesday for your amusement, enjoyment, or ignoring.
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The Carnivore's Dilemma
What better way to celebrate an anniversary than with meat? With expensive meat!
( The best in cured and uncured meat ) -
New Cat
We got another cat. Her name is Mary Lou. We've been waiting for her and Bean to get along well enough to take a horribly cute picture.
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Concert Review: New Pornographers, Lavender Diamond, and Fancey
The last New Pornographers show I saw was at Tastefest in Detroit. Indie rock shows at Tastefest were always a little weird because the Tastefest itself is a very racially mixed event. Then the show would start and suddenly you were in a sea of white people ( Read more... ) -
Just when I thought my opinion of my undergraduate education couldn't get any lower
An e-mail I just received. The "To:" field for this e-mail was "Washington Area Alumni."
Alumni Western would like to offer you and a guest ( Read more... ) -
Un-Rick-White-ed
Now that Rick White, quite possibly the worst pennant race signing ever, has been released, let's take a second to remember his six games in a Mariner uniform, during which the Mariners went 0-6.
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So Now I'm a Global Warming Denier
Last week, I was feeling a little down about my work. To pick myself up, I tried to describe my two main projects in 10 words or less and came up: 1) "To improve safety in nuclear power plants" and 2) "To mathematically describe behavior inside the cell." That made me feel cool, which is, as you know, unusual.
( Damn, this is long. )