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I've been feeling a little light and fluffy today so I thought I'd share a little François-Marie Arouet, or Voltaire as most know him. I'm sure most are at least somewhat familiar with him after being forced to flip through Candide in high school, but this was one witty 18th century French deist. Here are a few of my favorites ( Read more... )

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So in the past four days I have:

• attended roughly 18 hours of conference technical seminars
• attended another 6 hours of poster sessions
• gotten up at 6:30 every morning
• gotten home to the hotel at 12 midnight every night
• was at the conference yesterday from 7AM till 5PM, left directly to the airport, arrived home at midnight, got up at 6:30, went to ( Read more... )

I made it into Boston yesterday... the flight was pleasant, tho we had to sit on the runway for nearly 20 minutes getting deiced... I didn't mind so much, since I've been pretty engrossed in The Ruins, by Scott Smith (the Simple Plan guy).  Great horror and survival story... on my way out of Jay's Bookstore with it, Jay stopped me and told me that ( Read more... )

I was expecting Uncle Touchy to take an early lead in that last poll, but you guys seriously blew the door wide open. Personally I was kinda hoping MC Sausage would get more support, but I'm pleased with the outcome.  Looks like I have a new DJ name, folks.  That is, unless 15 of you quiet people awake from your dark slumber with a hunger for ( Read more... )

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Apparently this music video has been around a while, but this is the first time I've ever seen it.  I thought id share it up since it is such a bitchin song... I remember dancing to it all the time a few years ago.  I wish there were more clubs in Pittsburgh that played indie dance music like this... yet we seem to have thirty different 80's nights ( Read more... )

I just finished a pretty good book and I thought id share... my dad told me about it a while back and said "Nick... this is probably the best spy novel I've ever read", and since me and my dad somehow seem to have the same taste in everything, I thought id give it a try.

I gotta say that this was pretty much the best spy novel I've ever read.  Maybe ( Read more... )

Big Throwback tonight... 60s and 70s costume party! Seems like a good opportunity for me to break out my Hunter S Thompson costume again...

It's business time!!!

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