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Archive for October, 2006

Oct 19th 2006

Be a mayfly, make the most of today

Cool advertisement.

 

Oct 17th 2006

kind-of embarrassing typo weird statistic

found while i was searching for projected job growth by industry in the US:

You will find data on employment by detailed occupation, sex, race, and hispanic origin at ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aat11.txt. These data are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population survey, a survey of households.

source: bureau of labor statistics.
i think they […]

Oct 16th 2006

detroit tigers, AL champs

“what a wonderful, wonderful story”
losingest team in the majors over the past 13 seasons. losers of 119 games in 2003. a year ago, ranked fifth from the bottom in a list of teams likely to win this year’s world series. now, the tigers are favored.
a video clip of magglio […]

Oct 15th 2006

lorna d. lister (1979-2006)

a friend of ours died last week in utah in a horrific car crash. i am still in shock. you never think of car accident victims as people you know. they are usually just faceless names. it is very different when you know and care about the person driving the vehicle […]

Oct 14th 2006

ESPN’s obsessions: cross-promotion and terrell owens

first, terrell owens. ESPN has become the channel for “all TO, all the time.” thank goodness i tivo sportscenter so i can fast-forward through most of it. their coverage is football-heavy as it is–so much time is devoted to the odd-shaped ball that they have time to give helpful hints to viewers, […]

Oct 13th 2006

Intoxicados - Está Saliendo el Sol

Y la segunda canción de la semana…te presento otro de mis grupos preferidos del rock argentino: Intoxicados. Esta canción es de su disco No es sólo rock ‘n’ roll.
Intoxicados - Esta saliendo el sol

Oct 13th 2006

La Portuaria - 10000 km

Este viernes te presento dos canciones del rock argentino. Primero, una de La Portuaria.
La Portuaria - 10000 km

Oct 13th 2006

3000th blog comment and 350,000th blog visitor

all-encompassingly has recently passed a couple of blogging milestones.
at the beginning of october we served our 350,000th visitor. we have been blogging since march 2003, or about three and a half years. this works out to about 100,000 visitors per year (just over 8,000 per month).
at the end of september, […]

Oct 12th 2006

Llan-fair-pwll-gwyn-gyll-go-ger-y-chwyrn-drob-wll-llantys-ilio-gogo-goch

no, i did not pass out with my head on the keyboard. it is the actual name of a train station in wales.

good for them.

Oct 11th 2006

Democrats on Iraq, Then and Now

As a followup to the not-to-be-released GOP video I posted yesterday, here is a then-and-now video from the GOP web site:

 

Oct 11th 2006

Grand Talipoobah

Scott Adams over at Dilbert Blog has a serious/humorous solution for what he calls the “problem of dumb terrorists”.
Have you noticed that there are two basic types of terrorists? There are the smart, educated ones with engineering and medical degrees, for example. And then there are the Taliban who are essentially monkeys with guns. I […]

Oct 11th 2006

2L job search rejection email revealed

last week i posted three colorful rejection emails from my 2L job search. only one of them was real. i wrote two of them myself based on what i think people really want to say to me. the real one came from a small immigration firm in hawaii (which shall remain anonymous). […]

Oct 10th 2006

on democrats’ reaction to mark foley

democrats are outraged that the GOP leadership (specifically denny hastert) supposedly knew about what was going on with mark foley and his teenage page(s) for a long time, maybe a year.
what did democrats do when they knew about representative gerry studds‘ relationship with an underage teenage page? he refused to resign, turned […]

Oct 10th 2006

(Not) Potential GOP Ad

I can see why they aren’t going to air this…but…wow. It’s an instant classic.

 
According to Drudge:
….the advertisement was deemed “too hot” by GOP strategists all across Washington, DC who have refused to use it!

One GOP strategist said “jaws dropped” when the ad was first viewed. “Nobody could believe Zucker thought any political organization could […]

Oct 10th 2006

Mexico: Fences Bad, Bridges Good

Mexico is all hot and bothered that the United States might try to secure its southern border.
Mexico’s foreign secretary said Monday the country may take a dispute over U.S. plans to build a fence on the Mexican border to the United Nations.
Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters in Paris, his first stop on a European tour, […]

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