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Money vs Stuff
Mar 01 2010, 19:38 EST [updated Mar 01 2010, 19:45 EST]
I had a few conversations last week where people equated money and stuff ("stuff" being the catch-all for raw materials, consumer products, and services). In our day-to-day lives money and stuff are very similar: you trade money for stuff and the same am
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Winter Bowling: Sunday Mixed
Feb 28 2010, 20:45 EST
Team "Final Warning" finally took some points, 7/8 for the night. Everyone bowled above their averages on both teams but we just did it more so than the other guys.
Audrey 144, 130, 127 (23 over)
jackdied 165, 180, 154 (16 over)
Kerry 147, 174, 223 (4
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Ball Square News
Feb 27 2010, 12:08 EST [updated Feb 28 2010, 20:59 EST]
They killed the White Hen. Bastards. For non-locals: White Hen is a convenience store that is more like a Wawa than a 7-11; full deli, decent coffee, etc. The chain was recently bought by 7-11 and the stores are being redone to be 7-11s, which means no
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The Origins of Curling
Feb 27 2010, 11:33 EST
Chicagoboyz has the scoop
Duncan: “We’ve got naught to amuse our persons with save a frozen pond, some smooth river boulders and our wimmen’s brooms.”
Angus: “Oh, aye, and we’re drunk.”
Duncan: “And we’re drunk.”
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Re-Communicado
Feb 25 2010, 00:08 EST
I've been at PyCon in Atlanta for the last week and relatively out of touch. I somehow lost my phone charger so I've been really really offline. As it turns out the hotel concierge has a big box of phone chargers (they are frequently left behind) but no
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The 21 Hour Work Week
Feb 15 2010, 15:05 EST [updated Feb 15 2010, 15:07 EST]
The BBC has an article promoting the 21 hour workweek as opposed to the standard-ish 40. The listed benefits include full employment and a bag of lifestyle benefits. To the first: if full employment were that easy the French cap of 35 hours would have
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Extremely Local News
Feb 10 2010, 21:08 EST [updated Feb 10 2010, 21:21 EST]
Do you remember that scene in the movie Kingpin where "to pull a Munson" becomes a derogatory phrase attached to a person? Well the Lehigh Valley has a version of that. To be a "cudderman" is to be dirty, stupid, do a half assed job, or all of the above
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Your week in Quickies
Feb 06 2010, 10:43 EST [updated Feb 06 2010, 10:49 EST]
Schluss mit den Grundrechten [German]
[jackdied]
Feb 06 2010, 10:33 EST
It is a strange thing that we call daytime dramas "soap
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The Oxford Comma
Feb 03 2010, 16:54 EST [updated Feb 03 2010, 16:56 EST]
An ambiguous but benign sentence from a friend reminded me about the Oxford Comma. You can write a list as "A, B, and C" or as "A, B and C." Most of the time it doesn't matter because the intent is clear. Sometimes even when the intent is clear leaving
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