Archive for the ‘musings’ Category
Monday, December 27th, 2004
Christmas was such a special occasion that I had the opportunity to watch a rerun of a recent Saturday Night Live. It has not changed, for better, or for worse. I got to see Eminem, uh, "perform," if you can call it that. One skit to appreciate ...
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Thursday, October 21st, 2004
I'm taking an Ashtanga Yoga class on campus, and I experience a rather wide range of feelings. Pain: navasana, which strengthens the abs. Laughter (not really a feeling, but..): I can't find the pose, but it's one where the instructor says "it's OK to bend your knees," and ...
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Sunday, October 17th, 2004
Well, I disagree with Jonathan Richman (see link above) on one thing: I like Levi's jeans, 550 to be exact. But it took me about a year to realize that just because the tag on the Levi's and Gap jeans have the same waist/inseam dimensions, maybe they actually measure ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2004
I shaved off my goatee a couple days ago. The most unexpected outcome of having one is being mistaken for someone else. Somewhere, out there in Boulder, is a guy who apparently looks like me - with a facial hair. Before growing it, I can recall being ...
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Friday, May 7th, 2004
This morning I again wondered "where has all my lip balm gone?" I have at least four dispensers, and invariably they disappear. Most often I find them in a par of pants or shorts I had not worn in a while, and this morning was no exception. ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2004
I've added two new booknotes files: The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker and Moneyball, by Michael Lewis.
So this Superbowl half-time show hubub is still in the news. The FCC is up in arms, and there are lawsuits. Ideally, how should this work? I am not so ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2004
to a young man in a grocery store wearing a black t-shirt that says "F**K off and die"? So, what do you wear when you're in a bad mood? Is this your outfit for picking up women?
In football there's something called the "prevent defense." Had I ...
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Saturday, November 29th, 2003
Word of the week: zeugma \ZOOG-muh\ noun. Date: 1523: the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one (as in "opened the door and her ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2003
My car was covered with a layer of ice this morning. It's hard to explain the satisfaction of removing it with the scraper. I could not stop with just the windows. It was like excavating my car, as if it were an ancient artificact. But there ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2003
Question of the day: How did junk email come to be known as "spam"? Answer.
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