This date might lose significance as we proceed. But right now, it's the baseline. This is the earliest admission at a world-class continental architecture school that I've found ( Read more... )

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I just moved 380 posts from here to my new wordpress and filtered them.
and boy are my arms tired.

I have been riding a bicycle for a couple months now.
Even with impediments to serious riding - thus < 100 miles in the last month - it has definitely increased my overall metabolism. And I quit drinking alcohol 3 weeks ago.

These two factors have combined for good and bad effects.

The good side: Those hip muscles (you know, the D'Angelo ones) are ( Read more... )

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It has now been over six months since I have had a cigarette.
That's all.

Hell yeah.

Goodbye, George. You did us a world of good. Our view of our leaders and our language will never be the same.
You opened our eyes to things we would not have otherwise seen. You turned stand up comedy from fart jokes to serious social commentary.

Your genius was that you never forgot the fart jokes, too.

Fifteen points.

Very early in the game. Still time to increase that lead.

"The latest numbers on voter dissatisfaction suggest that Obama may enjoy more than one bounce. The new poll finds that only 14 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with the direction of the country. That matches the previous low point on this measure recorded in June ( Read more... )

The rebate checks from the government were a cheap ploy by the White House (and government in general) to make the second quarter of this year appear to have positive growth.

The falsely inflated second quarter was supposed to be a relent between the first and third, which at the time of the drafting of the legislation, were basically guaranteed to ( Read more... )

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