Month: October 2003
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Matthew Hayden broke the all time test scoring record today with 380 against Zimbabwe. Man, I wish more of you watched cricket so you knew the significance of this. It’s the equivalent of breaking the season home run record in baseball (before that became a commonplace event). Good on ya, Hayden.
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Harry Potter Casting News: Emma Thompson will play Sybil Trelawney, Harry’s dreaded Divinations teacher, in Prisoner of Azkaban. Cool. I kinda pictured Sybil as older, but I’m sure Emma will be able to pull it off. (Luckily Gilderoy’s not around in this one, huh?) Although, what’s this about the movie not coming out til next…
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AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE! OI! OI! OI! The Rugby World Cup starts today and I’m pretty fired up. Sure, the Poms and the Kiwis are favored, but I think Georgie and the boys can pull it off. And hey! Even we Yanks have a team. GO EAGLES!
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Wow, the new US $20 bill is out. I like the color. Thanks to Aussie and British money, I’m a big believer in having different colored (and sized) bills. I got so confused in the US last June whenever a cashier would hand me a wad of identical green cash.
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Panther is coming! Panther is coming! Hooray, we finally have a release date – October 24. That’s two weeks from tomorrow! I’ve been waiting for this for ages. I desperately need to repartition my hard drive and clear out some old crap but I’ve been waiting til my next major OS install to do it.…
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Happy birthday to Matt!
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Trivia Update: We finished a respectable fourth out of fifteen teams tonight, though the winners beat us by more than ten points. (We’re fairly certain they cheat every week so we’re going to try to find a new place.) My own personal highlights were identifying the Coronation Street theme and remembering Bob Dylan’s real last…
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Dear Residents of California*,Thanks a friggin’ lot. It’s hard enough being an American living overseas – what with our President being a megalomaniacal assclown and all – and you had to go and elect the Terminator. My co-workers have been laughing about it all morning. There’s only so much defending I can do, and this…
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Note to Self: Study this list of world flags. It’s trivia night!
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Snook sent me a link to this article alleging that Chip and Reichen have officially “divorced”. Too bad.