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spicy death
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/30/
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vocabulary fail
Today at lunch, someone claimed that the rivalry between Notre Dame and Boston College stems from the fact that the two schools, though both Catholic, were founded by competing religious institutes (Congregation of Holy Cross for Notre Dame, Jesuit Order for Boston College. And someone very naively said, "They both worship the same God, can't they ( Read more... ) -
Yahoo! 100 Movies to see before you die
Damn it. Utterly exhausted, I fell asleep around 10... only to wake up at 2:30am, unable to fall back asleep.
From kusoyaro and _way_
"100 Movies to see before you die
...according to the staff at Yahoo! Movies, anyway, who 'believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see ( Read more... ) -
vanity plate humor
Today, I saw a minivan with the license plate "CALIVAN".
Perhaps the person just likes California. But there's a certain part of me that really hopes that the person has a child named Miranda, and just couldn't resist the temptation to make a Shakespearean pun (or is that Tempest-ation?) -
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I'd forgotten how nice snow can be, when it's sufficiently cold that the snow doesn't melt into gray slush and refreeze into ice. This is fluffy, flaky white snow, and it crunches satisfyingly beneath my feet. It's not terribly treacherous to drive in either. I actually realized that in my entire life, I've never made a snow angel. I'm tempted to ( Read more... ) -
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Random links for this morning, thanks to the morning news.
David Vitter, junior senator for Louisiana (succeeding the popular John Breaux), is a conservative Republican, and had a bit of a scandal back in 2007, when he confessed to using the services of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the alleged DC Madam. To keep this scandal alive longer, someone put out ( Read more... ) -
poker: skill or chance?
For dwmtak: Is poker a game of chance or a game of skill?
This is actually a point of law; games of chance are regulated by laws controlling the venues where they may be played, who may play them, etc. Far fewer laws regulate games of skill.
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