Month: October 2007
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56 American roller coasters… from the front seat. AWESOME. I haven’t been to Cedar Point in more than seven years, so I loved getting to “ride” the Magnum once more. I hadn’t even heard of that new Maverick coaster. Anybody try it this summer?
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Dumbledore is gay. Interesting! I especially like Rowling’s astute observation that the fanfic world is going to go nuts over this news.
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MiddlesexLast Friday I finished the second of Eileen’s book recommendations, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex. I knew absolutely nothing about it before I started, and I deliberately avoided the introduction at the front of my edition. I needn’t have worried. The big “hook” of this story – that it’s being narrated by a hermaphrodite – is given…
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Stories about poker seem to keep cropping up now that I have a semi-relative that plays professionally. Check out this exposé about a cheating ring at an online poker site. Fascinating. (Link courtesy of Daring Fireball.)
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One-Woman Etiquette Crusades That I Am Currently Pursuing: Bus Panickers. If I’m sitting in the outside seat on the bus and the person beside me starts making “get up” signals five minutes before my stop, I smile and say, “Oh, I’m getting off there too” and then make them wait til the bus comes to…
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My poor Penny has roseola!
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I blame my father, really, for my inexplicable love of car chases and the Smokey and the Bandit movies. I suppose that’s why I got so caught up in this Wired article about an attempt to break the Cannonball Run record. Two complete geeks (with lots of money and very little regard for speeding laws)…
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Sydney is evidently suffering an acute butter shortage. EEEEK!
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Poll Results: It’s interesting, isn’t it? Catch-22 is definitely polarizing, though not exactly in the way I predicted. It appears that almost all men like the book, but women are split nearly 50/50 on it. Eh, I’ll still be giving it a pass.
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Thanks, y’all.Thanks to everybody for all their kind words and commiseration. I feel kinda like I did a few years ago when I had several interviews at Kazaa and then they didn’t hire me. I rated that as my biggest disappointment of 2003. (Of course, they got raided by the copyright police a few months…