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Archive for April, 2005

sports overload

randomduck - April 30th, 2005 | Comments Off

A lot of sports today: a Wizards-Bulls basketball game and a Nats-Mets game.
The fun kicked off at 3:00 pm (though we got to MCI Center at the end of the first quarter having taken our time getting downtown), and the Wizards opened up a decent lead over the Bulls, who had won the first two [...]

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a sub-etha thumb up - way up!

randomduck - April 30th, 2005 | Comments Off

This will be quick for now and fleshed-out later, but I was wholly impressed and entertained by The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. The movie holds its own and is very well done - I’m sure that DNA is smiling from wherever he is, as his material was given a great treatment. The [...]

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long live the princeton filibuster!

randomduck - April 29th, 2005 | Comments Off

In protest of Senator Bill Frist (Princeton ‘74) and his threats to “go nuclear” and change the filibuster rule, students, politicians, scholars and citizens have been staging their own filibuster at the Frist Campus Center at Princeton University. They’ve been at it, non-stop, for over 78 hours!
Go, Princetonians!
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what’s next? papier maché?

randomduck - April 29th, 2005 | Comment (1)

Okay, the article title is a bit harsh. But still, the though of a bamboo bike frame is really weird. My best memories of bamboo are in the form of clarinet reeds and slalom gates, both of which broke fairly easily.
Link seen at BoingBoing.
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jesus’ ipod: my 2 sheckels

randomduck - April 28th, 2005 | Comments (2)

sprite noticed an article about the hypothetical contents of Jesus’ iPod. It’s an interesting question, and I’ve got a few suggestions:

Jesus needs some Pink Floyd on his ‘pod. He’d need a balance of the early, Syd Barrett era psychedelia and the later, angst-ridden stuff. And “Echoes” would need to be on there, [...]

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it’s done!

randomduck - April 27th, 2005 | Comments Off

Paper two is done, turned in, and the last class let out early - the best of all worlds!
Also, there were quite a few people missing at class tonight, so… there wasn’t too much to discuss.
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