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I'm With Fred [jackdied] Jan 03 2008, 19:15 EST [permalink] In October I said I'm Kinda With Fred but I'm now officially off the fence. Thompson has been campaigning for a few months now and hasn't said anything un-conservative. The other candidates' campaigns haven't changed except for Huckabee - whom I can't s Full Text Those Damned Foreigners [jackdied] Dec 21 2007, 16:27 EST [updated Dec 21 2007, 16:36 EST] [permalink] Here are three unrelated bits I've stuffed into one post. From Japan Some of you have been emailing me "Hey Jack, your blog is OK and all but do you know of any other blogs? Preferably ones that are piled high with awesome?" Look no farther than On TV Full Text Seasons Greetings to our Lehigh Troops [jackdied] Dec 20 2007, 16:53 EST [updated Dec 20 2007, 17:48 EST] [permalink] Much has been made of the hard leftishness of the Academy. My own alma mater (literally translated "nourishing mother") was not that bad. Politics just weren't part of campus life. Oh sure, in some years the campus newspaper tried to lash out at the "e Full Text Against Huck or Against Evangelicals? [jackdied] Dec 19 2007, 19:53 EST [updated Dec 19 2007, 21:25 EST] [permalink] The Democrats have always been the home of identity politics but despite having a female candidate and a black candidate identity politics are largely absent this cycle. When people write about Hillary they don't write about her womanhood they write abou Full Text Knitting to the Death [jackdied] Dec 18 2007, 22:14 EST [updated Dec 20 2007, 17:43 EST] [permalink] The Wall Street Journal has an article about a knitting competition based on the school game "Assassin". In the knitting version you take out your assigned mark by knitting them a pair of socks before your assassin knits a pair for you. Finally, a game Full Text Quote of the Day [jackdied] Dec 17 2007, 18:59 EST [permalink] Jay Nordlinger in his Impromtus column. ... a story I learned from Tony Daniels. Sometime in the 1930s (I believe), 100 “Aryan” scientists signed a letter against Albert Einstein, declaring his Theory of Relativity to be a Jewish hoax (or something lik Full Text Extras Finale [jackdied] Dec 17 2007, 02:22 EST [updated Dec 17 2007, 02:30 EST] [permalink] The final episode (not season, final final) of HBO's Extras is quite possibly the most casually depressing show ever. Wow, I would have preferred not to watch it. Lots of the bits that would have been passingly funny in any other episode just became pun Full Text Sunday Mixed: Holiday Break [jackdied] Dec 16 2007, 22:24 EST [updated Dec 17 2007, 19:09 EST] [permalink] Tonight was the last game of the year and second to last of the half season (money is paid out and team rankings reset at the half-way mark). I don't have the exact scores because our recording secretary (Kristy) was absent this week. We tied 4-4 agains Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Dec 16 2007, 17:46 EST [permalink] How many five year olds could you take in a fight? [jackdied] Dec 16 2007, 17:44 EST I got 27 but I think that number is wildly optimist Full Text Dear Mr Suderman [jackdied] Dec 14 2007, 14:16 EST [updated Dec 14 2007, 15:43 EST] [permalink] Dear Mr Suderman, How can you write a review of Will Smith's I Am Legend without mentioning - even once! - The Omega Man. If it wasn't obvious enough just from the trailers that Legend is a remake a quick IMDB search confirms it. Or maybe they just s Full Text You, Me, and Australia makes three [jackdied] Dec 14 2007, 00:42 EST [updated Dec 14 2007, 00:45 EST] [permalink] The recent loss of the UK to the EU might be temporary. In the meantime I'm counting friends on one hand. The big conflicts of the 20th century were not very fine grained so the alliances that formed weren't either. If the US was in it the UK was in it Full Text Prime Minister Overturns the Constitution [jackdied] Dec 13 2007, 23:45 EST [updated Dec 14 2007, 00:17 EST] [permalink] Well, the UK doesn't have a written constitution but the headline is essentially the result. As Detailed here Gordon Brown, the UK's Prime Minister has signed the entire UK onto the European Union despite the fact that his party promised a public referen Full Text I Don't Heart Huckabee [jackdied] Dec 13 2007, 21:32 EST [updated Dec 13 2007, 22:32 EST] [permalink] Don't get me wrong - Mike Huckabee would make a great neighbor. His lawn would always be cut, his leaves raked, and his children tidy and quiet. Huckabee would be an awful Neighborhood Association President because he would demand that your lawn would a Full Text Sunday Mixed: Dennis Hagiography [jackdied] Dec 11 2007, 19:02 EST [permalink] I did bowl in a tournament Sunday afternoon but more about that later (and the less, the better). Sunday's news was dominated by our anchor Dennis (who coincidentally won the same tournament I was in two years ago). Our 4-4 ties in the last few weeks ha Full Text Bowl Much? [jackdied] Dec 08 2007, 22:34 EST [permalink] I have a bowling tournament tomorrow so I spent today at the lanes. I bowled to warm up for my lesson. I had a lesson. Mike & Kristy arrived and then I bowled some more. A total of ten games in a leisurely seven hours (I ate somewhere in the middle). Full Text PyBook for me? [jackdied] Dec 06 2007, 18:54 EST [updated Dec 07 2007, 03:48 EST] [permalink] Status update on the Python book. I just got some feedback on the previous chapters and I'm looking forward to having the rest banged out by the end of the month. NB For the haters; this means I will retain the moustache indefinitely. There is also a c Full Text Bowling Extravaganza [jackdied] Dec 03 2007, 18:13 EST [updated Dec 03 2007, 18:25 EST] [permalink] Thanksgiving is always good for minor embarrassments. Pete, Mr & Mrs teddied, and I hit Devon Lanes. I didn't have my gear; it turns out I average 130 with a lane ball and rented shoes. teddied averaged 140+ including a 165 (to be fair he did have his Full Text Fux0r3d by Alewife [jackdied] Dec 01 2007, 20:45 EST [updated Dec 04 2007, 17:21 EST] [permalink] My car's computer went nuts and decided to kill the headlights and lock the ABS brakes. Which was neat because it did it as I merged onto Route 2. Some smoking, screeching, and then an hour of sitting around later it is towed. 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