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Monthly Archives: May 2006
My experience on the Titanic
May 15, 2006 – 12:36 pm
Well, not really the Titanic, just my basement. With the torrential rains here outside Boston, my newly redone furnished basement was flooded starting Saturday night until about 2am this morning. It was like a sinking ship because after 12 hours of wet-vacing you come to realize that you are not going to win and its [...]
A chink in their armor?
May 12, 2006 – 2:18 pm
Steve Almond, author of those revered contributions to the western canon, the story collections “The Evil B. B. Chow” and “My Life in Heavy Metal”, inadvertantly reveals a way to take academia back from left-wing extremists:
Condoleezza Rice at Boston College? I quit
By Steve Almond | May 12, 2006
An open letter to William P. [...]
The Greatest Spam Name Ever
May 10, 2006 – 3:29 pm
Euripides Throckmorton
I am not sure I will even continue the Spam Name of the Week contest- since they all pale in comparison.
Cell phone companys are so freakin’ stupid!
May 10, 2006 – 3:17 pm
I signed up for cell phone service a little over a year ago, and my contract has expired. I have now received two phone calls by Verizon salespeople offering a “Special Deal”. Some background first - I have the 400 minute, free night time and weekends for $39.99 plan. With the plan came [...]
Let loose… the Kraken!
May 9, 2006 – 1:47 pm
Luc generously offers:
Feel free to print him onto iron-on paper for your own personal use, and send me pics of your swellegant tee!
Man, it would make an excellent tshirt! Without the background color, but printed on a shirt of that green.
I just wish the image was bigger.
UPDATE: D’oh! There IS a bigger image! Sweet.
But do they sing God Save The Queen in Hindi?
May 9, 2006 – 1:38 pm
In 1972, Idi Amin stole everything from third-generation Indians living Uganda, and gave them the boot. What happened next is certainly interesting:
The crisis this provoked in Britain at the time has been softened with the passing of the years, but because they were Commonwealth citizens with British passports, the government, in the face of almost [...]
Google Murder Hack
May 8, 2006 – 8:07 pm
Discovered while doing some research today: the above morbid google hack, that the Boston Police Department has a blog, and that some cops ride segways and wear bicycle helmets.
Quote of the day
May 7, 2006 – 9:26 pm
dff: … and graduation ceremonies suck anyway. You just sit in the heat and listen to some idiot yammer.
tjic: Or worse - I went to the kind of college where they’d rather dig up the corpse of Karl Marx than let someone as right wing as, say, Hillary Clinton speak.
I love the smell of competition in the morning
May 6, 2006 – 7:42 pm
I’m assuming this is part of the FiOS rollout.
Apparently I’m not paying enough attention to my surroundings
May 4, 2006 – 9:49 pm
I missed a Tim Hecker show last Saturday night. Damn.