Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Google hates me.
I just googled “humble nailbanger,” and it offered me as an alternative “Did you mean human nailbender?”
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Some interesting and random stuff
This is interesting if you’re into reading stats and like them shown to you via youtube. Some samples from Did You Know?: If you’re one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you. The 25% of the Chinese population with the highest IQs is greater than the entire population of North [...]
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
Freakonomics.
I’m in the middle of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, which is so interesting that I find myself taking the train to work instead of driving…no mean feat when you have to be on the train at 430am vs on the road at 530am. I can’t say enough about it, [...]
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
Your tax dollars at work.
DoD 101. An introduction to the military.
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Who cares whether they’re really vegetarian?
I’ve been reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan and I have again and again run into situations where my thinking has been fundamentally changed as a result. One good example is in this ask.mefi thread. The asker, a waiter, talked about how he runs into “vegetarians” who say [...]
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
Photo post…testing…testing…
Made some big and long-needed changes to the site tonight, seeing as how we’re snowed/iced/whatevered (Accuweather is actually reporting “unknown precip.” And if they don’t know, I certainly won’t claim to. Anyway, this is a test of a new photo album thingamabob. And yes, I too got caught up in the “smoke” craze. They’re fun [...]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Who? Why?
Who am I? Why am I here? Even having started a number of blogs by this point, I still am a bit perplexed about how to approach the first post. Is this a needless, pointless exercise? Has anyone, anywhere ever said anything relevant or profound in the first post of a new blog? I’m not [...]