January 2007
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Your Two Cents On Typos
My sister has been planning a European vacation with her fiancé and was perusing deals on Hotels.com last week. She was quite surprised when she found vacancy at The Ritz Hotel in London for just one penny a night. You read that correctly, $.01. Without wasting a second, because afterall, time is money, she booked three nights and a charge on her credit card showed up shortly thereafter for $.03....
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J.D., NBA
I’m a big NBA fan, but had mostly given up on the League when I went to college. It was tough to simultaneously care about the intricacies of Duke’s bball squad, the ACC, Dick Vitale’saphorisms and at the same time manage to understand the big league movement. My college idealism and amateur appreciation for the sport coincided with big money work stoppages and a lack of star...
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Betta Testing the Waters
I got a fish. His name is Ghostface.
Well, his scientific name is betta splendens and his street name is Siamese fighting fish. But since he’s my new pet, I get to call him whatever I want. Ghostface it is.
It was an impulse purchase, really. I will never tell Ghostface this, and since the Wikipedia article I’m referencing makes no mention of bettas having developed cognitive...
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Apple a Day
I’m a Mac addict. I’m on Winter Break. So, you’d better believe I’m watching live coverage of MacWorld in California, the yearly keynote address where Steve Jobs makes the real world seem like the future.
What are folks’ predictions this year? The coveted “iPhone”, HDTV and iTV, a true video full-screen iPod, and a robot named Rosie that does your...
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Headphones are Stethoscopes (2006)
Random thoughts from 2006 briefly considered through the medium of new(ish) music that I have listened to in alphabetical order during a train ride that completes the last leg of a fortnight of travel OR a poor attempt to create order out of chronological chaos in the face of a new calendar year.
Art Brut- “And yes, this IS my singing voice. It’s not irony, it’s not rock n’ roll, we’re just...