Month: June 2003
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Trivia Update: In case you couldn’t tell from the previous post, I’m a little tipsy. Why? We got second place in the trivia tonight! (The team that won was so far in front they had to have cheated.) Even more amazingly, we won four of the mini-jackpots for the night. Snooky won a Wild Turkey…
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If you were head of programming at a cable station, what five television shows would be on your channel? This is the discussion we’re having over at Max’s site. I answered: 1. “Get a Life”; 2. “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose”; 3. Vintage 80’s “Days of Our Lives”; 4. “Double Dare”; 5. “You Can’t Do That…
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Surprise victory.There’s a posh boutique down the street from my house and every day as I walk by I covet the grey wool skirt in the window. It’s fitted from the waist to the knee but then has these kicky big pleats that make it look like something from the 1940’s. I figured they wouldn’t…
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I keep forgetting to update my reading list. Anyway, I just finished Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game. It’s one that I always meant to read, but I’ve had such bad luck with the “geek canon” lately that I was almost scared to try. (Examples: though I loved Philip K. Dick, William Gibson and the…
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I like it when people don’t realize their domain names can be read in different ways than they intend. Today’s examples: powergenitalia.com and artisansexchange.com. Hee! Update: It appears that the first one isn’t working right now. It’s actually the site for PowerGen Italia, an Italian company that makes batteries. It was mentioned in the Sydney…
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What do you think Martha Stewart’s jail cell will look like? (Apologies for harshing on your idol, Max, but it was too funny to pass up.)
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Great discussion at not martha (6/17 entry) about the preferred order for receiving change from a cashier. Personally, I hate it when they give me change on top of the bills. The grocery store in Newtown is even worse because they usually throw the receipt in there too. So I stand there juggling change and…
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I scored 34% (“Total Geek”) on this Geek Test. The Snook managed a 37% (“Major Geek”). This should come as a surprise to no one.
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I was all set not to recommend this Mash Game because I had such trouble getting the stupid thing to work on my Mac. When I finally got it to function in IE though, my fortune was so good that I just had to share. According to the site, I’m going to be a professional…
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The official race photographs have been posted and there are two of me! Unfortunately their stupid site won’t let me link directly to them, so you’ll have to search on my number (6847) if you want to see them. The one on the right is from about the halfway point, while the one on the…