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Summer Bowling Update
Jul 01 2008, 23:22 EDT [updated Jul 02 2008, 00:21 EDT]
My new game (post lessons) has caught up with my old game. Monday I bowled eleven games for 150 average - only 140 during league, feh. Tonight I bowled seven games for 160 average - none were during a league (I'm not in the Tues league and no one needed
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Obama on the March
Jun 30 2008, 07:48 EDT [updated Jun 30 2008, 16:25 EDT]
From NRO
OBAMA TO MAJOR DELIVER SPEECH IN INDEPENDENCE, MO
On this Fourth of July week, Senator Obama will discuss what patriotism means to him and what it requires of all Americans who love this country and want to see it do better.
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Ha Ha
Jun 28 2008, 22:45 EDT [updated Jun 28 2008, 22:59 EDT]
Fireworks, public and private, have been going off all week here in Somerville, Mass. I just heard a raft of bottle rockets go off and as the last one ended a police siren matched it. I hope they stick the guy with a noise complaint, at worst. Fireworks
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Restaruant Deopt
Jun 28 2008, 21:21 EDT [updated Jun 29 2008, 00:33 EDT]
It turns out that places like Costco and Sam's Club are undersized. As I picked up my grilled salmon with a side salad the owner produced my Mescaline* Salad from a garbage bag size of greens. I asked her if it was from Costco and she replied "No, Resta
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Some Kind of Wonderful
Jun 28 2008, 06:54 EDT [updated Jun 28 2008, 07:45 EDT]
What would I do without cable? Some Kind of Wonderful is currently playing on HBO. This movie was the perfect storm of a date movie when I was in middle school (feel free to not look up the year). It was written by John Hughes and starred Eric Stoltz,
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Quote of the Day
Jun 27 2008, 17:47 EDT [updated Jun 27 2008, 17:51 EDT]
"Should we emerge victorious [in the election], which I believe we will, sure we won't be arrogant, we will . . . say Let's sit down and talk, and talk we shall," he told the crowd on the outskirts of Harare. "So there it is, let the MDC reject it or ac
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Fowl Laws
Jun 27 2008, 00:00 EDT [updated Jun 27 2008, 00:03 EDT]
As a child born in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania I took special interest in the recent supreme court decision which quotes PA law both for the majority and in the dissent; the colonial constitutional convention was in Philly and Ben Franklin was
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Don't use Firefox 3.0 -- Yet
Jun 26 2008, 22:26 EDT
I liked Firefox 1.x and 2.x plenty but switched to 3.0 only because it was lauded as keeping memory usage low. I usually have 50 tabs open so that was a killer reason to switch. At first it did prove to be true; memory usage with a 40 tab test set drop
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Sit Back and Enjoy the Fireworks
Jun 26 2008, 21:42 EDT [updated Jun 26 2008, 21:48 EDT]
No, this has noting to do with the Supreme Court. For some reason the city of Somerville has decided to close Broadway and put on a fireworks show at the baseball diamond down the street.
I'd add my own 'splodey bits* but there are five cops within sigh
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A Democrat on Heller
Jun 26 2008, 20:56 EDT [updated Jun 26 2008, 21:17 EDT]
Balkinization's Sandy Levinson has some thoughts on Heller. He agrees with it more than not but thinks both sides were stealing bases like crazy. Surprisingly he thought it would be a unanimous decision for the individual right with split decisions on w
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D.C. vs Heller
Jun 26 2008, 19:42 EDT [updated Jun 26 2008, 19:56 EDT]
I've churned through 100 pages but I'm pooped. You can see the long post of my page-by-page reaction. I ended on what is a glaring dishonesty in the dissent. I wouldn't have caught it except that I'm from Pennsylvania so you can't pull a fast one on me
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D.C. vs Heller
Jun 26 2008, 12:32 EDT [updated Jun 26 2008, 19:43 EDT]
The 2nd Amendment case was decided today and the first reactions say that the 156 page decision affirms the individual right to own firearms but then stops. The DC total ban is unconstitutional but what is constitutional and by what standard constitution
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Quote of the Week
Jun 25 2008, 15:15 EDT [updated Jun 25 2008, 16:32 EDT]
Let me put this bluntly - every time the Supreme Court meets in secret conference, it sits as a constitutional convention, rewriting the Constitution at will.
-- Mark R Levin
He is talking about today's Supreme Court ruling that the death penalt
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Because things aren't notable unless they are Odd
Jun 25 2008, 02:12 EDT [updated Jun 25 2008, 02:30 EDT]
I don't use an RSS reader for watching blogs - I mainly use Bruce's blogroll with some random editing*. One of those blogs is the Barking Moonbat Early Warning System (which is one hell of a title, I'm envious). It turns out that we don't agree on some
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Fifteen Pounds of Joy III
Jun 24 2008, 13:50 EDT [updated Jun 24 2008, 22:02 EDT]
Another year, another new bowling ball. This one is a Roto-Grip Cell, motto: "The King of Them All!" My last ball will stay around for backup and my first ball is now in the hands of teddied.
Wow, just wow. I got the ball last night which happened to
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Odd Python Bits
Jun 18 2008, 20:12 EDT
I haven't done much geekery since I moved my Python posts to another blog but a couple oddities came across the transom today:
The Abstract Cheetos Attack
It is possible to determine the most-frequently used letters on a given keyboard on the target's c
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A Bold but Timid disclaimer
Jun 18 2008, 19:50 EDT [updated Jun 18 2008, 19:51 EDT]
Seen on a real estate site:
Square footage and acreage is approximate. Information on this site is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
Thanks for clearing that up.
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Flag Day and other Summer Fare (2 images)
Jun 18 2008, 13:44 EDT [updated Jun 18 2008, 19:55 EDT]
Flag Day
When preparing for Flag Day I forgot that I would be traveling. So I ended up hanging my freshly minted 18th century flags on my parents house instead, viz
Pictured left is a Betsy Ross 13 star and a Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" right (it was
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Customer Service is about the Little Things
Jun 18 2008, 11:59 EDT [updated Jun 18 2008, 12:10 EDT]
I called the Molly Pitcher* Hotel (Red Bank, NJ) and a person answered the phone after the first ring. I wanted reservations so I was put on hold for about four minutes. But but but, once a minute the music stopped and the original gal got back on the l
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McCain Needs a New Economics Advisor
Jun 18 2008, 10:28 EDT [updated Jun 18 2008, 11:00 EDT]
.. or he needs to start listening to the one he has. Reason covers his recent innumeracy. McCain says that speculators are driving up the price of oil and should be punished. If McCain really believed this populist bunk he should make a campaign promis
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Politics as Total War
Jun 17 2008, 14:10 EDT
Some goofballs are having a lawschool conference to try Bush for war crimes. It is a planning conference to outline a list of crimes and venues where they can be pursued. They hope to try and then hang Bush and other "federal judges and members of Congr
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Why Drill for Oil?
Jun 17 2008, 08:51 EDT [updated Jun 17 2008, 10:02 EDT]
The AP brings us this quote
[Obama spokesman] Hari Sevugan said McCain's "plan to simply drill our way out of our energy crisis is the same misguided approach backed by President Bush that has failed our families for too long and only serves to benefit
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Surprise! Lithuanian is Latinate
Jun 17 2008, 00:34 EDT
What I know about Lithuania couldn't fill a thimble. I'll be going there in July so I ordered a phrase book and some CDs from Amazon which arrived today. I figure it is rude not to learn how to say good morning/afternoon/evening and please/thank you in
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BSG Exhaustion
Jun 16 2008, 17:38 EDT [updated Jun 17 2008, 00:42 EDT]
I really liked the previous seasons of Battle Star Gallactica but this year I haven't been able to care. The show was too complicated to watch with just one eye and that is too complicated for me. There were too many main characters with too many nested
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Can You Say That on TV?
Jun 16 2008, 13:06 EDT
I just saw a TV ad for a sit-up fitness aid. It was some kind of girdle for women. The spokeswoman said, literally, "Do you need to control lower pooch flab?"
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Your week in Quickies
Jun 16 2008, 06:57 EDT
50 Pun Store Signs
[jackdied]
Jun 16 2008, 06:56 EDT
You have to applaud "Master Bait & Tackle" for being the only dick joke in the lot
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Massachusetts Self-Defense
Jun 11 2008, 23:22 EDT
The local news is running this story on a rapist in Boston's North End. He looks nothing like me, so that is nice. Their advice for women is the standard: don't walk alone at night, keep your cell phone handy, and hold your car keys in your hand to use
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Lithuania, Yes. Kentucky, No.
Jun 11 2008, 06:18 EDT [updated Jun 11 2008, 06:22 EDT]
I regretfully inform you that I will not be able to make Lebowskifest this year. This breaks my bowling heart in ways you cannot imagine. Instead I'll be speaking at EuroPython in Lithuania. Immediately thereafter I'll be doing the time-limited Intern
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Hot and Muggy in Boston
Jun 08 2008, 19:32 EDT [updated Jun 10 2008, 09:17 EDT]
Today was the first day that has topped 95. In a bad sign of things to come my block in Somerville just had a blackout. I assume it was from all the air conditioning stress. Or maybe not - the power goes out on my block four or five times a year (it is
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Sunday at the Polo Grounds (2 images)
Jun 08 2008, 11:41 EDT [updated Jun 08 2008, 12:33 EDT]
Never let it be said that we're all about low-brow Bowling here (mostly? sure, but not all). We also enjoy low-brow polo matches. How, you might ask, can polo be low-brow? It kindof isn't but the first rule of high-brow is "let no one be embarrassed."
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Flag Day Prep
Jun 07 2008, 22:54 EDT
My two flags just arrived from flagline.com (I ordered through Amazon, flagline is a partner). One is a yellow Don't Tread On Me and the other is a Betsy Ross (13-star) flag. Combined they cost $10 plus shipping. They aren't high quality enough to fly
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I'm Going to Lithuania!
Jun 07 2008, 15:45 EDT [updated Jun 07 2008, 23:47 EDT]
Two months ago I would have bet very large sums of money I would never say those words. Since then my talk proposal for EuroPython (a technical conference) has been accepted.
So if you happens to be in Vilnius, Lithuania in July stop by and buy me a bee
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Your week in Quickies
Jun 04 2008, 02:38 EDT
Bunk Bed injuries in 18-21 yr olds
[jackdied]
Jun 02 2008, 16:18 EDT
Hmm, doesn't that really mean "drunk college students?" I
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Democracy Sucks
Jun 03 2008, 15:34 EDT [updated Jun 03 2008, 16:00 EDT]
Democracies suck and fortunately none of us live in one. In fact none of us have even participated in a total democracy in any aspect of our lives. Not in family, or work, or sports, or anything. We hold votes for lots of things but that isn't the same
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The Side Efffects of Downtime
Jun 03 2008, 11:23 EDT
The blog was down for a week last month. An unexpected side effect is that google dropped lots of our pages from its memory. I used to be able to add "site:jackdied.com" to a google search and find the exact post I was looking for. Now it returns nothi
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