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Summer Bowling: Return of the King [jackdied] Aug 05 2008, 10:05 EDT [updated Aug 05 2008, 10:54 EDT] [permalink] We swept the #1 "Team Zenga" last night by an astounding 200 pins. The best part is that they hit their averages - we were just smoking. Half of those surplus pins were made by our sub Mike, formerly of the Suburban Achievers, who came down from bowlin Full Text Faux Philly Sunday [jackdied] Jul 27 2008, 23:06 EDT [updated Jul 28 2008, 08:39 EDT] [permalink] There were some Superpretzel Soft Pretzels, a frozen pretzel that is about as close to a Philly soft pretzel as Budwiser is to Dock Street Beer. I also ate a bunch of Steak-Ums on soft rolls. The rolls certainly weren't Amoroso's but they did OK. Amoro Full Text Possibly Worst Hedge, Ever, Maybe [jackdied] Jul 26 2008, 02:53 EDT [updated Jul 26 2008, 02:54 EDT] [permalink] The NYT on undiscovered oil reserves This [new oil/gas find] would amount to 13 percent of the world's total undiscovered oil and about 30 percent of the undiscovered natural gas. Great, now we know exactly how much undiscovered stuff we have to loo Full Text Palm Treo vs the new iPhone [jackdied] Jul 23 2008, 00:09 EDT [updated Jul 23 2008, 00:22 EDT] [permalink] This space reserved for bobsalive to document his conversion. Full Text The Only Real Protesters Are On The Right [jackdied] Jul 22 2008, 23:46 EDT [updated Jul 23 2008, 00:49 EDT] [permalink] I hate protesters and protests, or at least what passes for them these days. As this blogginhead's segment (flash video) points out the real protests of the Left ended in the 60s. Old protests involved protesters wearing their Sunday Best and getting mo Full Text Summer Bowling: On the Road to Recovery [jackdied] Jul 22 2008, 22:15 EDT [updated Jul 22 2008, 22:26 EDT] [permalink] I haven't posted bowling updates recently because I was out for a week and then my average went into a free fall. Two weeks ago I bowled 80 under my average for the night (so ~26 pins per game) and last night I was 25 under. My Monday average is now 137 Full Text ANN: No Tap Tournament Wednesday Night [jackdied] Jul 22 2008, 16:44 EDT [permalink] July 23rd at 7pm Lanes & Games is having a No Tap bowling tournament. There is no handicap so anyone off the street can play. It isn't bracketed, everyone plays three games and the highest combined score wins. See you there! Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Jul 18 2008, 05:47 EDT [updated Jul 18 2008, 05:50 EDT] [permalink] The Scary Truth About Puppy Mills [jackdied] Jul 18 2008, 05:38 EDT All good advice but along the "there ought to be a law" line Full Text Quote of the Week [jackdied] Jul 18 2008, 05:16 EDT [updated Jul 18 2008, 05:17 EDT] [permalink] a reader wrote, "I actually saw a Prius hybrid the other day without an Obama sticker on it." You mean they don't come with one straight from the factory? -- Jay Nordlinger's "Impromptus" Full Text Speaking of End Times [jackdied] Jul 18 2008, 04:00 EDT [updated Jul 18 2008, 04:56 EDT] [permalink] Jeff Soyer admits he "fell for" the Y2k scare. I kinda did too. I say "kinda" because while I believed it had merit (I'm a computer guy) I applied my belief unevenly. When I went to my parents' for Christmas I secreted a week's worth of food and water Full Text Al Gore's Limousine [jackdied] Jul 18 2008, 03:41 EDT [updated Jul 18 2008, 03:48 EDT] [permalink] Calling someone a hypocrite is the lowest form of criticism. In the first instance you can only be a hypocrite if you take a moral stand at all; It seems unfair to fault people who try and fail more than people who don't try at all. Moreover it is quit Full Text MA Introduces post-Heller Laws; Minorities, Poor Hardest Hit [jackdied] Jul 18 2008, 00:39 EDT [updated Jul 18 2008, 00:53 EDT] [permalink] The Massachusetts Governor has proposed an increase in all firearms fees in light of the recent Heller supreme court decision. It amounts to an extra $100 here, $100 there. I would like to say this effects the urban poor but it really doesn't - they cou Full Text Lithuanian Deer [jackdied] Jul 17 2008, 23:28 EDT [updated Jul 17 2008, 23:29 EDT] [permalink] I asked the waitress what kind of deer I was eating and she said she had no idea (or didn't want to waste time saying). I got around to googling and it was probably one of the European Fallow deer or Roe deer, or less likely an Asian Sika deer. I can te Full Text UK Police Officer Flees to Canada [jackdied] Jul 17 2008, 22:12 EDT [updated Jul 17 2008, 22:27 EDT] [permalink] .. because being a Canadian cop is better than being a UK cop. He lists some things that were "new" to him such as: physical training, weapons/melee training, and pursuit driving. If that all is new then what do UK cops do? Here is a random list of dif Full Text American Politics from a European View [jackdied] Jul 12 2008, 20:40 EDT [updated Jul 12 2008, 21:02 EDT] [permalink] Much of the dinner conversation at EuroPython was deeply geeky stuff but the rest was wine, women, song .. and politics, and religion (well, just with the commonwealth attendees), and sometimes money. I don't believe in the prohibitions against talking a Full Text Chincey Passport Workers [jackdied] Jul 12 2008, 17:03 EDT [updated Jul 12 2008, 17:05 EDT] [permalink] Would it kill Customs workers to stamp a passport? I just took a look at mine and going by the stamps I have entered/left Frantfurt in 2008, entered/left Iceland in 2005, and mysteriously entered the US in 2003 without going anywhere else first. It migh Full Text Lithuanian Eratta [jackdied] Jul 11 2008, 09:40 EDT [updated Jul 11 2008, 14:27 EDT] [permalink] [I'm back from the EuroPython conference. This is cross posted at my Python blog. You can find the slides of my talk here Class Decorators: Radically Simple.] [added last, but should have been first] Vilnius feels safe, but isn't. The girls I met out Full Text Greetings From Lithuania [jackdied] Jul 08 2008, 00:12 EDT [permalink] I think I was made to live in Vlinius. The town is unkempt but not ruinously so. The touch of the law is light - customs was a sign saying "find an officer if you have anything to declare." Food is dirt cheap - $10 for a dinner and $2 for a half liter Full Text 4th Fireworks (1 image) [jackdied] Jul 05 2008, 15:11 EDT [updated Jul 05 2008, 15:25 EDT] [permalink] Here is what $1000 of fireworks looks like. Just standing next to this cornucopia is enough to make you shout "KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!" at the top of your lungs. Our display was at Northwood Lake in New Hampshire where all of these are legal. The show of c Full Text Bike Shed Problems [jackdied] Jul 03 2008, 03:43 EDT [updated Jul 03 2008, 16:48 EDT] [permalink] I should have mentioned the "Bike Shed Problem" in my post about Australia's broadband plan. The "bike shed" problem is what color to paint the shed in the backyard. The problem is concrete and everyone understands it. This enables everyone to have an Full Text Up and Out [jackdied] Jul 03 2008, 03:10 EDT [updated Jul 03 2008, 03:12 EDT] [permalink] Posting will be light. I'll be heading North to New Hampshire for the 4th and then out of the country to Lithuania for a conference gig. bobsalive, teddied, and petedied are in charge meantime. So if there isn't a post in my absence there may be firings Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Jul 03 2008, 03:05 EDT [permalink] NRO Discovers the Cthulhu '08 campaign [jackdied] Jul 03 2008, 01:05 EDT Cthulhu, the amoral, eternal, and anti-human god of H.P. Lovecr Full Text Australian Government Cheese [jackdied] Jul 02 2008, 23:47 EDT [updated Jul 02 2008, 23:54 EDT] [permalink] Everyone loves to decry "special interests" but no one ever sees themselves as a special interest. Geek news site Arstechnica lavishes praise on Australia's broadband plan in a post titled "Australia shows US how a real broadband strategy works" (the re Full Text Obama, Like You and Me, Only Better [jackdied] Jul 02 2008, 22:17 EDT [permalink] It turns out Obama got a deal on his mortgage. This isn't the same "Friend of Angelo" scandal that has plagued other politicians. Obama was just given a good deal by an Illinois bank, full stop. I have to side with Confederate Yankee's opinion which is Full Text I'm Wrong: Lithuanian is NOT Latinate [jackdied] Jul 02 2008, 01:37 EDT [updated Jul 02 2008, 02:01 EDT] [permalink] My previous post titled Surprise! Lithuanian is Latinate should be retitled "Nice! Lithuanian doesn't require any sounds that someone who knows a few latinate languages can't manage." That is a different thing. 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