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Summer Bowling: Monday League/Lesson/Errata
Jun 03 2008, 01:42 EDT [updated Jun 03 2008, 11:32 EDT]
Trio League
We won a 5-2 victory over Team #3. The guys on team #3 have been bowling casually on weekends for a while and decided to join a Summer league. Good to see (this is how Mike, Kristy & I started bowling last year).
I showed up 40 minutes ear
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Family Trivia
May 29 2008, 23:11 EDT [updated May 30 2008, 11:41 EDT]
I recently learned that Henry Kissinger is my Grandfather's Sister's Husband's Niece's Husband. In other words, no actual relation to me. But it does explain why my Great Aunt kept Kissinger news clippings in her scrapbook - she was at his wedding and k
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Nudge: The Problem with People is People
May 28 2008, 02:40 EDT [updated May 28 2008, 03:34 EDT]
I haven't said anything about Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness the book about "Libertarian Paternalism" by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. The idea of Nudge is that the government shouldn't force people to do things (the
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Quote of the Week
May 27 2008, 20:17 EDT
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
-Wilfred Owen, Soldier-Poet
As seen at this great list of war quotes (for, against, and ambivalent).
PS, like "Your Week in Quickies" the "Quote of the Week" is less than weekly so I'll occasionally p
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The New Hampshire Difference
May 27 2008, 17:42 EDT [updated May 27 2008, 17:44 EDT]
Yesterday was Memorial Day. MA and NH treated the holiday slightly *ahem* differently. All liquor stores were closed in Mass. New Hampshire went the other way and had a sale [apologies, the contents of the "Promotions" link have changed].
There is cur
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To the Indian guy who keeps calling me
May 25 2008, 12:04 EDT
As I explained to you last Sunday when you kept calling (during league!) you have the wrong phone number. No matter how many times you dial it it will still be the wrong number. I don't care that your nephew said it was his phone number, it just isn't.
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Unity? I'll show you Unity (not metaphorically - I mean with pictures) (2 images)
May 25 2008, 02:43 EDT [updated Jul 26 2008, 17:17 EDT]
Obama's pledge of "unity" is of the same caliber as George W's pledge to be a "uniter and not a divider." Bush's most popular acts in office (at the time) were the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. His tax cuts went along party lines (closer to 50%).
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The Fall of Conservatism
May 24 2008, 22:31 EDT [updated May 25 2008, 00:53 EDT]
If you want to know why conservatism is doomed look no farther than The Fall of Conservatism at the New Yorker. The long [long] piece is about how the successes Republicans earned through divisive politics and pandering are coming to an end at the same t
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Winter Bowling: End of the Achievers
May 24 2008, 15:43 EDT [updated May 24 2008, 16:24 EDT]
The Sunday Mixed league ended last week and so did the "Suburban Achievers." The final night included a "No Tap" tournament and awards banquet.
No Tap Tourney
A "tap" is a near strike where only one pin remains; So-called because you just have to tap t
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Summer Bowling: Monday Trio
May 24 2008, 15:00 EDT [updated May 24 2008, 15:03 EDT]
Monday was the first day of Summer bowling leagues. I'm in the Trio buy-a-ball league with Trudi and Larry (Mike & Kristy having retired to greener pastures in Derry, New Hampshire). "Buy-a-ball" means your weekly fees include a new bowling ball. Trudi
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Summer Bowling: Wednesday Instructional
May 24 2008, 14:45 EDT
I signed up for the Wednesday Instructional league which is led by our local bowling pro Don. Fortunately for me I was the only one who signed up. So the session was canceled but since Don also bowls on Monday nights we're going to do private lessons im
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Quote of the Week
May 24 2008, 14:26 EDT
Liberty without responsibility does not produce freedom. It merely enslaves the responsible to the irresponsible.
- Shannon Love at Chicagoboyz.
The gist is that allowing people to choose is fine as long as they pay the price for their choices
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Your week in Quickies
May 24 2008, 13:39 EDT
How to make Rotten Shark
[jackdied]
May 24 2008, 13:37 EDT
I've had this Icelandic, umm, delicacy and I described is thusly: "Dried shar
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PA Cops Don't Know the Law
May 24 2008, 13:26 EDT [updated May 24 2008, 13:34 EDT]
Well, cops aren't lawyers so they can't know all the laws but they should know the basics. Like not arresting people for open carry of guns. Or not confiscating guns for being "un-registered;" PA law prohibits a gun registry - the cops have tried to mak
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Other People's Jobs: Scrap Dealer
May 21 2008, 13:25 EDT [updated May 21 2008, 13:42 EDT]
Officially the place was a "recycling center" but it would be misleading to call it anything other than a scrap yard. My brothers and I were around for my father's birthday and as usual we were pressed into service. We filled up teddied's pickup truck [
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Philly spending your dollars on anti-gun ads
May 21 2008, 12:46 EDT [updated May 21 2008, 12:47 EDT]
I was back in Pennsy for my father's birthday and heard a radio ad on WMMR (93.3 rocks!) advising listeners on PA gun law and warning them on how the city police and district attorneys would come down with a brick bat on violations of gun transfer laws.
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Females and Engineering: Do Not Want
May 21 2008, 00:21 EDT [updated May 21 2008, 01:01 EDT]
The Boston Glob breaks this amazing story: women just aren't that interested in Engineering. The cited study reaches an unremarkable conclusion: women - even with high faculties in hard maths - choose careers that involve a humanitarian component. The
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Ted Kennedy Hagiographies
May 20 2008, 23:08 EDT [updated May 20 2008, 23:12 EDT]
After Ted Kennedy's hospitalization local news and talk radio have been praising the man's legacy left and right. Everyone is pointing out the baseball fields that wouldn't exist except for Ted, and the streets, and the buildings, and the parks, and of c
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Blog Downtime
May 20 2008, 22:23 EDT [updated May 20 2008, 22:25 EDT]
Sorry for the downtime. The blog is graciously hosted on my old company's servers and they did a big upgrade of the machine setup which didn't involve low priority services like this one. Needless to say their new setup is cooler than our last one which
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Hard Candy
May 11 2008, 23:19 EDT [updated May 11 2008, 23:57 EDT]
Hard Candy (2005) is a gem of a movie that I hadn't heard about but is currently playing on Showtime. Watch it. It is a small budget, two person, one room drama about a 14 year old girl who entraps and surgically castrates a pedarast (or whatever the eq
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Quote of the Week
May 08 2008, 19:21 EDT
Catering to your mentors is necessary in any subject not governed by mathematics.
- Robert Heinlein
Seen at Jerry Pournell's blog.
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Comcast is Incompetent
May 08 2008, 19:08 EDT [updated May 09 2008, 21:31 EDT]
If the YouTube video of the Comcast agent asleep because he had been on hold so long in someone’s living room didn’t convince you I’ll give it a whirl. Mainly because I hate them. Right now I’ve been on hold for 10 minutes.
So I decided to get Fi
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Suburban Achievers: Rolling Disaster
May 04 2008, 22:27 EDT [updated May 04 2008, 22:29 EDT]
In the second to last game of the bowling season we got swept 8-0 by the 2nd place team. We were 15 points out of 1st place going in so now we're an unreachable 23 points away. With a good final week we'll finish middle of the pack.
Kristy did well wit
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