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Entries from November 2008

Weird, or wired? No, just weird.

October 31st, 2006 · Comments

In IH 0051 we’ve been reading the Old Testiment and to win the frequent Biblical pissing matching I’ve been toting the 14 lb. Oxford New Revised Standard Version (with Apocrypha) around Temple. This isn’t too odd as based on my size it looks like I’m a smaller person perusing Reader’s Digest. While reading Genesis I’ve [...]

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Christmas comes early, again.

October 30th, 2006 · Comments

I went to Lowes to purchase a replacement air filter to make beef jerky and saw a sight that no sane man in the Northeast of the US should ever be exposed to… One of those gaiye giant inflatable snow globes containing Santa, and a reindeer IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THE OUTDOOR GRILLS. Who says to themselves [...]

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Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft v. Geography

October 29th, 2006 · Comments

I’m planning a route to the Bristol Branch of the Bucks County Library system to grab a Bible so Temple won’t get my 12 dollars in exchange for some shitty annotated version of the King James Bible.  I compared directions with YahooMaps, Google Maps, and Microsoft Streets and Trips.  Everyone gave me a turn-by-turn identical [...]

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Bill’s Hair, you are the weakest link

October 28th, 2006 · Comments

Bill Mischke is the current director of Ockanickon Scout Reservation and is both my boss and eye-blindingly bald.  During OSHA inspections we’ve been knocked for not providing office staff with eye protection.  Anyway, this baldness set in early such that in the 1975 staff picture Bill is seen with quite an afro.  But sadly, the [...]

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Guess where beef jerky comes from?

October 27th, 2006 · Comments

Madrigal’s Meat Market had the flank steak I needed to make beef jerky and I put them square in my errand sights today.  I grabbed the steak and counter attendent asked me what I was using the steak for-
Me: I’m making beef jerky
Her: With a dehydrator?
Me: If by dehydrator you mean box fan, bungee cords, [...]

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Dominoes of Ignorance

October 26th, 2006 · Comments

My antithesis stole and nearly ate the microphone in American Ethnicities, the guest speaker wasn’t prepared.  Let’s look in, my commentary is in brackets.  ”I think the patriot act is just an excuse [okay], to descriminate against foreigners [a little stretch], because of the nation-less multinationals that control America [stop], and allowed September 11th to [...]

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Loudest book she’s ever read

October 25th, 2006 · Comments

My mother is now using a computer I built for her from a donation from a friend.  Now that she has something faster than a dozen mice at mechanical calculators I loaded Windows Media Player and a number of audio books she can now listen to as she quilts or plays Dr. Mario. Upon hearing [...]

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Loud + Dumb = Silence

October 24th, 2006 · Comments

All students in my American Ethnicities are incapable of speaking loudly and coherently simultaneously.  I decided to break this trend when the question: “Why were the benefits of the GI BILL so disproportionately directed towards white men” I responded in a bellow “The government didn’t like black people.”  No one disagreed…

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Suck it, i. We don’t like your kind around here.

October 23rd, 2006 · Comments

While reviewing for my Stat 212 exam I was reminded of how competence related to statistical calculus is so much lower than other areas.  In Acct 0002 I smile if I complete a quiz perfectly, in Stat 212 I throw a small party if the solution I get to a probability function includes at least [...]

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Next, a ape will beat it in 2 hours

October 22nd, 2006 · Comments

I spent the morning learning a crucial lesson:   Given a Nintendo game that took you hours or days to complete as a youth, it is now possible to find a video on the internet of someone having beat it in under 45 minutes if an non-RPG and 1:30 if it is.  I take this [...]

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