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Minor Injustices in Somerville [jackdied] Dec 01 2007, 13:04 EST [updated Dec 01 2007, 13:07 EST] [permalink] I went two months without a parking ticket. Two Months!. I just got two in the last two days for something I didn't even know is illegal (and heck, it might not be. Revenue is revenue). I received two $20 tickets for being parked while facing the wron Full Text Holy Fscking Linkedin [jackdied] Nov 28 2007, 10:30 EST [updated Nov 28 2007, 11:18 EST] [permalink] So I haven't checked email since March. I'm now testing spam filters but meantime I'm greping through the 200k unread messages by doing searches to find things I might have missed. 90% was spam and even 90% of the remainder was broadcast newsgroups or n Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Nov 27 2007, 01:02 EST [permalink] Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians [bobsalive] Nov 18 2007, 18:52 EST Sometimes the internets just make me laugh for the strangest, most une Full Text No PyBook For Me [jackdied] Nov 20 2007, 04:45 EST [updated Nov 21 2007, 00:27 EST] [permalink] I'm no longer working on the book. I am now working on tenpinz.com full time. Look for soemthing other than a blank page there come January. Full Text CNN staffers can't use Google [jackdied] Nov 20 2007, 02:22 EST [updated Nov 20 2007, 02:37 EST] [permalink] I'll be more charitable than most and suggest that the six single-issue "independents" at CNN's last Democratic debate were the result of issue groups infiltrating the event and not CNN complicity (via). Hijacking media was pioneered by amateurs [but I Full Text John Lemberger, PhD of Clueless [jackdied] Nov 20 2007, 00:58 EST [permalink] .. but I repeat myself. Here is an op-ed from Dr Lemberger. He argues that tax dollars are a good investment. You get a great bang-for-your-buck on just about everything. In fact he can't think of a damned thing his tax money pays for that isn't worth Full Text I'll be there for Chanukah [jackdied] Nov 19 2007, 20:36 EST [updated Nov 19 2007, 20:41 EST] [permalink] I occasionally get neighbor's mail in my mailbox in error but rarely do I receive letters addressed to "Rabbi Michael Swirsky" at my address. The post marked date is a week ago so I infer that one of the other two apartments got it first and it eventuall Full Text Suburban Achievers: Turkey Day [jackdied] Nov 19 2007, 15:38 EST [updated Nov 20 2007, 02:59 EST] [permalink] League got a taste of Thanksgiving last night. Normally the bowler with the highest score over his average in the second game gets a free pizza. This week the highest over average on each pair of lanes got a free turkey. In our pair of lanes it came do Full Text Illiterate Paper Pushers [jackdied] Nov 17 2007, 00:23 EST [updated Nov 17 2007, 00:32 EST] [permalink] There is a sticker on my beer that says HEY YOU!! It is ILLEGAL to provide alcohol for people under 21!! [then in fine print] This sticker funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services. Sticker designed b Full Text Big Bowling Sunday [jackdied] Nov 11 2007, 15:56 EST [permalink] I've been trying to practice three+ times a week but only got in a couple days this week. So while the pot roast was in the oven I skipped over to Lanes & Games. Pretty good: 194, 139, 135, 187. Now I'm going to pack myself full of meat and potatoes as Full Text Bad Kitchen UI [jackdied] Nov 11 2007, 13:24 EST [updated Nov 11 2007, 16:27 EST] [permalink] While making a pot roast I was stymied by the user interface on my oven. The digital timer cannot be set for longer than 2 hours. Why? I can understand why the microwave won't let you set the timer for longer than an hour -- it doesn't have enough digi Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Nov 10 2007, 18:39 EST [permalink] Fat Moms have smarter kids [jackdied] Nov 10 2007, 18:38 EST The brain is a big ball of fat so this should surprise no one .. right? Full Text Sunday Mixed (3 images) [jackdied] Nov 10 2007, 08:31 EST [updated Nov 10 2007, 08:39 EST] [permalink] I'm three weeks behind in bowling updates and I don't recall much about the older weeks. Three weeks ago we tied 4-4 and two weeks ago we lost 2-6. Dennis is getting frustrated that we always manage to choke. Last week was a quirky 2-6 loss. We're cha Full Text Welcome to Elementary School (1 image) [jackdied] Nov 09 2007, 19:28 EST [permalink] That's it. I'm ditching the short declarative sentences and going back to run on sentences with multisylabic words (and lots of parentheticals which up the per-sentence word count) because while it might be less readable apparently people can handle Full Text Pescatore and other local Somerville news [jackdied] Nov 09 2007, 16:17 EST [updated Nov 09 2007, 16:22 EST] [permalink] I have not received a parking ticket in a month and half - a new personal record. Pescatore Seafood Pescatore Seafood got a much needed boost from a favorable Boston Globe review. Fridays are especially busy because of the tradition of eating fish on F Full Text Mark Steyn in Boston [jackdied] Nov 09 2007, 15:16 EST [updated Nov 10 2007, 09:28 EST] [permalink] Mark Steyn came south of the border to give his talk Outsourcing the Future. bobsalive, Jim [update Jim has a summary], and I attended. The event was hosted by CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) at the Temple Emanuel in N Full Text Modern Christian Pacifist Philosophy [jackdied] Nov 09 2007, 14:14 EST [permalink] David Kopel at Volokh.com has posted a working draft of his Modern Christian Pacifist Philosophy. It is worth reading and not too long at 32 pages. Don't let the "Christian" in the title scare you - most of the arguments are to natural law and not scrip Full Text The Many Problems of New Orleans [jackdied] Nov 09 2007, 13:18 EST [permalink] The UK paper The Guardian has an article on crime plagued New Orleans. It points out that murders have rebounded after an initial post-Katrina dip (when the population was near zero). There have been a record 162 murders this year and two months left to Full Text Bacon Internet Roundup [jackdied] Nov 06 2007, 18:14 EST [updated Nov 06 2007, 19:23 EST] [permalink] The internet has a lot to say about bacon. Here is some of it. It's too late for Halloween this year but next year you can always go in your bacon costume. That sound you hear is a drunk gnawing on your shoulder. What is better than bacon? 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