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Oddities abound! I wasn't on the Web much this past week, so I only have one thing to offer, but I found it pretty funny, so here you go: How to create a weapon that is devastating and unstoppable . More next week, maybe.
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Adam Schein of FOX Sports spends part of a regular column opining on the Buffalo Bills -- specifically, just who is to blame for the fact that the team is a giant mess right now. Here's the entirety of his take: 1. The Bills' mess is Dick Jauron's fault. This is a bust. Don't get me wrong. ...
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Well, folks...sorry about the lack of posting the last few days, but the sails have been pretty slack and wind-free. Part of it -- quite a large part of it, actually -- was the shockingly rapid health decline of a dear personal friend of our family's, a lovely older woman who took it upon ...
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Roger has a quiz , and since I haven't done a quiz in a while, here goes! 1. What is the color of your toothbrush? White with magenta trim. I started using those battery-powered vibrating toothbrushes a while back. I like the tickling. 2. Name one person who made you smile today. A guy I ...
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Spiderman: the red costume or the black one? (On pure looks only, obviously, since the black one turned out to be a bit on the not-so-nice side....)
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The Bills have fired coach Dick Jauron, and there was much rejoicing. Yay. Now, to eat Sir Robin's minstrel.
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One of the most nauseating of all talk points from the Right in this country on the subject of health care is the whole "Hey, the uninsured can just go to the emergency room for health care!" canard. Any time I hear someone say this I instantly file that person away in my head as someone without ...
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The football world is abuzz -- abuzz! -- with talk about a big gamble Patriots coach (and all around Incarnation of All Things Evil) Bill Belichick made in the game yesterday against the Indianapolis Colts. With the Pats leading 34-28 with a bit more than two minutes left, the Pats faced ...
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Linkage of the week.... :: What happened to the right wing swagger? When did they turn into such a bunch of scared wimps? When did they go from standing there in the rubble with George Bush and his megaphone to hiding under Dick Cheney’s desk cowering in fear? :: The funny thing about all of ...
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Back in July, we had in Buffalo a fairly long string of days that were cooler than usual, and as a rule it never really got sweltering during the summer. The general consensus seemed to be that the summer's weather sucked, and one sentiment I heard a lot went along the lines of: "Gee, what a ...
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Oddities abound.... :: Apparently a study was needed to confirm that cannabis is good for stress-relief . :: The union of the sets "Happy" and "Sad" . That's about it, I guess. It was a pretty "Meh" week for weirdness in my usual haunts.
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Here's a bit of film music from quite recently. It's from the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , and it scores a scene where Harry Potter and a number of the kids at Hogwarts decide that their professors aren't doing enough to train them against the Dark Arts, and that therefore ...
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Veterans: heroes who should be honored, or...well, that's it. There's just one option on that one. Thanks to all the veterans out there for their service.
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I don't remember much about the fall of the Berlin Wall. That is to say, I remember nothing about it. The event happened when I was barely two months into my freshman year of college. I was trying to focus on studies that were harder than anything I'd known before; I was a member of three ...
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Readers may remember that toward the end of the 2008 NFL season, I decided that watching the Buffalo Bills consistently lose games and look boring in doing so had lost its appeal to a sufficient degree that I decided to just plain stop watching them . Sunday afternoons became a lot more pleasant ...
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Linkage of the week: :: Very few phrases fill me with dread and/or irritation as the response, "Oh, it's EASY!" And it bugs me on two separate but related levels. :: I really do believe that there are blessings in ALL my experiences. Some float right up to the surface, like those breaching ...
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Via BrightWeavings.com , I see that the cover art for the forthcoming new novel by Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven , has been revealed. Here's what American and Canadian readers will see: The British art can be seen here . I prefer the American/Canadian version; the people on the British cover ...
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Oddities abound! :: Jellyfish of unusual size? I don't believe they exist . :: "Hey Jude", flowcharted . :: Ever want to combine a dead-blow hammer with a mouse sander? No? Well, maybe they won't make one, then. ( They actually weren't , anyhow.) More next week!
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I'm not the biggest Stephen King fan in the world. I find that he can be hit or miss, which is probably to be expected of a writer so prolific as he. I haven't read everything of his; not even close. I've read some stuff of his that I liked a good amount ( Salem's Lot ), some stuff that I ...
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Nettl used this the other day , and it's sufficiently good for me to pass on to you all. Here's the first movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto: This has been one of my favorite concerted works -- in fact, one of my favorite works, period -- ever since I first heard it many years ago. ...
