Dis-Honor Roll Tide
Posted on December 20, 2005 - Filed Under Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
According to this article, Alabama has the lowest graduation rate (39%) among the AP’s Top 25 college football teams. Alabama takes on Texas Tech (73%) in the Cotton Bowl. The largest disparity among bowl competitors lies between Notre Dame(96%) and Ohio State(54%). Of course, these types of reports seem to come out all the time [...]
Read More..>>Liquor, Limericks and Pirates – Giveaway!!
Posted on December 20, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Contests, Drinking | 3 Comments
Happy birthday to my brother today. Wish I could be in Wino to celebrate, as his three planned activities incorporate two of my …err… enthusiasms. On tap in Winona tonight: Jameson, Limericks and Pirates. (I’ll leave it to you to deduce which two I lean toward). My imagination is running wild with activities sure to [...]
Read More..>>Triple True
Posted on December 19, 2005 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
“If you make some ignorant beats, you can say all the smart shit you want.” ditto pretty much everything else Chris wrote.
Read More..>>Double-True
Posted on December 19, 2005 - Filed Under Movies, Music | 1 Comment
Via everywhere: The Chronic-WHAT-les of Narnia. As I live in San Francisco and don’t fork over for cable or dish, NBC is not to be had1 in my house. Luckily, the interweb stepped up to bat beaming this goodness to my desktop. 1 “Because of the Bay Area’s rocky terrain, some 200,000 households in San [...]
Read More..>>Screw You, Government
Posted on December 19, 2005 - Filed Under Money, Politics, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
“The $12.7 billion in college cuts are part of an effort, led by conservative Republican lawmakers, to show discipline with the public’s money. But Democrats say GOP leaders only want to pay for tax cuts, all the while eroding the ability of parents to pay for college.” Meanwhile, as of Dec 19th afternoon, the cost [...]
Read More..>>Ghost Writers?
Posted on December 19, 2005 - Filed Under Books | Leave a Comment
Maud guides us to an entertaining quiz where you can test your knowledge of how 10 writers kicked the bucket, including one who had “a complete refusal to urinate”. Amazingly, I answered 7 out of 10 (“thoroughly above average”) correctly. I’d like to thank random chance for making this possible.
Read More..>>Quick Quiz
Posted on December 19, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
via OGIC. Please jump in. Four jobs you’ve had in your life: dishwasher, telemarketer, computer programmer, referee Four movies you could watch over and over: The Karate Kid, Road House, Goodfellas, The Jerk Four places you’ve lived: Omaha, South Bend, Kansas City, San Francisco Four TV shows you love to watch: America’s Funniest Videos, King [...]
Read More..>>I Blame ASCII Porn
Posted on December 19, 2005 - Filed Under Robot Brains, Sex | Leave a Comment
Marcella Bombardieri at the Boston Globe on diminishing female enrollment in computer science: Some computer scientists fear that they may be going in the same direction. They view the dearth of women as symptomatic of a larger failure in their field, which has recently become less attractive to promising young men, as well. Women are [...]
Read More..>>Black Eyed Pee-ers
Posted on December 16, 2005 - Filed Under Ass Cleavage | Leave a Comment
Apparently there is some song by the Black Eyed Peas called “Humps” which is the end of the world as we know it. Does anybody care? Oh, and then there’s this picture buried in Pitchfork somewhere: I’m just sayin’
Read More..>>We’re just all screwed
Posted on December 16, 2005 - Filed Under Politics, Race, Religion, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Wha-huh? Confused western intellectuals? But these familiar generalities – Enlightenment versus Religion, Democracy versus Fascism – have always been facile, and are now being exploded by the ordeal of another prominent writer of Muslim ancestry, Orhan Pamuk, who goes on trial in Turkey today. Mr. Pamuk is accused of a committing a crime by mentioning, [...]
Read More..>>Fuck Apple
Posted on December 15, 2005 - Filed Under Money, The Man Stickin It To Us | 3 Comments
Some of you may be considering giving the gift of an iPod this holiday season. Might I suggest you do not get an iPod? I have a 1 Gig shuffle that does not work, and everybody I know with any iPod product has had it stop working at least once. Usually more often. I am [...]
Read More..>>No Foreigner?
Posted on December 15, 2005 - Filed Under Drinking, Music | Leave a Comment
The Telegraph lists and makes available for download the 10 Greatest Karaoke Songs of All Time. As one who has dabbled in karaoke, I would like warn you (from personal experience) that Eternal Flame1 requires a wider vocal range than the consideration seven-and-sevens2 may allow for. Ditto for Twisted Sister. Damn you Dee Snider. 1Somwhere [...]
Read More..>>All The Young Lewds
Posted on December 15, 2005 - Filed Under Crime, Kids These Days | Leave a Comment
If you feel like doing some peeping-Tommery at a tanning salon in Omaha, best wait until you’re 18: Violation of the law is a misdemeanor. The punishment is up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine when the victim is younger than 18 and up to three months in jail and a $500 [...]
Read More..>>Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
Posted on December 15, 2005 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Robot Brains, Statistics, We Kid Because We Care | Leave a Comment
TMFTML notes the new methodologies of research – namely, put some words together and see how many pages google finds. The larger the number, the more righter you are! Inspired by the elegance of this approach, I decided to use google’s “hit count” to answer some questions. With some of my own analysis (really trivial, [...]
Read More..>>Question of the Day
Posted on December 15, 2005 - Filed Under Money, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
“Who the hell wants to live in a high-rise condo in downtown Omaha?”
Read More..>>Music Books
Posted on December 15, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Music | Leave a Comment
Looking for Christmas gifts, or perhaps you’ve already fallen behind in you Hannukah celebrations? LHB has listed a number of gift ideas for the bookish music lover on your shopping list. Included is an intriguing Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin. For some time, I’ve been meaning to put together a [...]
Read More..>>When similes attack
Posted on December 12, 2005 - Filed Under Money, Music, Uncategorized, Words (In Print) I Hate | Leave a Comment
“Changing technology has left the CD single, like the parrot in Monty Python’s pet shop, pining for the fjords, still standing only because he was stapled to his perch.”
Read More..>>Let this be my solemn vow
Posted on December 12, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Race, Religion | Leave a Comment
I’m not sure how google-bombing works exactly. But as I sang in elementary school Christmas programs, “let it begin with me”: douchebag
Read More..>>Fly The Fiendly Skies
Posted on December 12, 2005 - Filed Under Crime, Pain, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
More dispatches from the reality based community. The Gulfstream V has been identified as having been used by the CIA for “extraordinary renditions” – abducting terror suspects and taking them to secret prisons around the world where they may be tortured. The recording of flights by spotters like Paul from places as far afield as [...]
Read More..>>Boots on the radio
Posted on December 12, 2005 - Filed Under Music, Politics, Race | Leave a Comment
I see the internet stream is scheduled for today, though I’m not sure what time. All I needed to read was BMK fave Boots of The Coup will be taking part. More details here. I’ll be listening to the archive in a day or two.
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