Archive for July 2008

24 Jul 2008 1610H

Las Vegas

Here we come. See you after the weekend.

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23 Jul 2008 1908H

omgOMG

In high school, during the mid to late 80s, this was perhaps one of my favorite books. And now, almost 20 years and change later, it’s being made into a movie. Hard to believe that a book like that is this hour’s #3 bestseller on the B&N hourly best seller widget, but, not really. You [...]

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23 Jul 2008 1907H

Happy Birthday, 十八樓C座!

I love this series on Commercial Radio in Hong Kong, which is now, to my surprise, in its 40th year, second only in longevity to the Archers on the BBC. Owing to the late hour, I’m rarely able to catch it [...]

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22 Jul 2008 1823H

On vacation

What am I doing?
Cleaned house. Four boxes of books went to the Bridge to Asia program in River Grove. Probably could have sent them to Half Price Books at Touhy Crossing, but that’s where I sent the DVDs and CDs instead (and got paid a pretty good amount for them). Three bags of clothing went [...]

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21 Jul 2008 1736H

One down, one to go

We’ve waited a long time for this. Karadzic will soon be in a dock at the Hague. Mladic is next.

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16 Jul 2008 0821H

Yes, I’m double posting

Professor Randy Pausch’s lecture, not just being a great talk by a great user experience thinker and practitioner, is also ultimately a story about the best of his humanity, challenged as it is by the fight of his life, with all the bravery and terror and everything on the line that he can muster, an [...]

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16 Jul 2008 0744H

We don’t work like farmers anymore…

So why do we continue to eat like we are? Just a thought. I am actually more comfortable not eating in the morning (or eating something very light) and having a light lunch of soup or a salad. It’s weird, but it’s taken me a while to figure out.
Also I am noting that my favorite [...]

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07 Jul 2008 2000H

NPR: Prison overcrowding at San Quentin

A powerful piece of journalism from NPR’s Laura Sullivan on All Things Considered today about prison overcrowding at San Quentin. When California is raiding the educational budget to house inmates at $8bn a year, and 70% of its inmates come back, something is terribly wrong.

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05 Jul 2008 0547H

The art of fighting, without fighting

“The Colombian military chief of staff, Gen. Freddy Padilla said Thursday, ‘On the morning of the operation, I prayed to the memory of my mother, to whom I have never asked anything, to grant success and for there not to be anyone killed.’”
I love it when a plan comes together.

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04 Jul 2008 1814H

Well, no sense hiding anything at this point

Long and short of it is, I’m getting married in a few weeks to someone I met over eHarmony, on which I have been almost exactly a year.
By the way, eHarmony and the 29 Dimensions of Compatibility? Not good predictors of successful matching, mostly due to the ridiculous amount of human error really.
E. [...]

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