They changed the rules of the basketball pool this year because of me. Last year they gave 10% to the person who picked the most upsets. Picking the most upsets is easy, if you aren't trying to win.
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10:12:23 AM,
Thursday 17 March 2005
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Guest blogging misses the point.
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11:49:21 AM,
Monday 14 March 2005
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Billionare's list. I'm rooting for IKEA, #6. Silvio Berlusconi is #25, worth about 3 Ross Perot's. If you put them back together, the Walton fortune would still be twice Bill Gates, and the Mars fortune would be 4th. The Ferrero Chocolate people are in the top 50, and the Wrigley fortune is still on here. The pile of canadian money that employs me is #15.
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11:28:42 AM,
Sunday 13 March 2005
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Bride & Prejudice was a disappointment. The music and dance scenes were lacking, there was little effort to turn the novel into a movie. Jane was good, Lizzie was all wrong: too stunning, too grand, to be Lizzie. Rai reminds me of an iguana somehow, the worlds most beautiful iguana. She should be restricted to playing mythical characters. Lydia stole the scenes she was in, as Lydia should, but she saw through Wickham at the end, which takes all the edge away. Darcy was bland, like Tom Cruise, but without leaving a coating of sleaze over everything. Bingley was too much of a movie star, too charming, not silly enough. Accent to die for. Mr. Collins was fun enough, if a little shrill. Mr. Bennett was right, and the best laugh in the movie was his "your mother will never talk to you again" speech. Mrs Bennett, while impressively terrifying, wasn't beautiful enough to make her coherent, or to make the connections clear. It was diverting enough, but Bridget Jones remains the best Pride & Prejudice movie I've seen.
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01:18:56 PM,
Saturday 12 March 2005
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Google maps lives up to the brand. The maps scrolls! Particularly good for plotting the distribution of (insert hated fast food joint of choice here). Just search for Starbucks, town, State. Go, play. It's nifty.
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05:29:48 PM,
Thursday 10 March 2005
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Are other american cities littered with squares, and I'm just unaware of it, or is it a Boston thing? Teele, Powderhouse, Ball, Magoun, Davis, Union, and that's just Somerville.
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05:13:31 PM,
Thursday 10 March 2005
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If satellite clocks ever become standard in cars, you could synchonize all the worlds turn signals.
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03:15:39 PM,
Wednesday 9 March 2005
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Current weather conditions: 37 mph winds, 16 degrees, and freezing fog. Whoever's bright idea freezing fog was, I don't like it.
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08:08:42 PM,
Tuesday 8 March 2005
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Any thoughts on mysterious weeklong lumps in the throat, without acommpanying coughing?
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04:59:57 PM,
Tuesday 8 March 2005
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Cats are clearly delusional.
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04:59:42 PM,
Tuesday 8 March 2005
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Dash (distinguishable from Dot by the pattern on the tail) was something of a bully for the first week or so. This was my attempt at solitary detention.
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04:58:11 PM,
Tuesday 8 March 2005
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The lump on the bottom of the bonsai sunken log is a pleco. You probably can't see it. The two blue fish are the opaline gouramis, and the blurs in the back are some of the rasboras. Still haven't got the whole focusing on the fish thing down yet, so no closeups.
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04:53:55 PM,
Tuesday 8 March 2005
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