A recent highlight featured a Princess Bride reference that I always find amusing. 
So, yeah, go get y’all’s GraphJam on! 
Also worth including: I’m not the only one who misses Andre the Giant, am I? Just curious…
Even though many of you already frequent the blog this link comes from, I still think it’s worthy of inclusion here. I found it amusing enough to steal the author’s best line for the link that follows.
Gary Gygax had a time machine, yo!
Fun! Woo-hoo, Platonic solids!
With my moving down to Boston, I feel it is no longer reasonable that I continue my fight against modernization by refusing to get a cell phone. I won’t go into the many reasons why I dislike them, sufficed to say I think they herald the end of civilization, but now I find myself weighing the prospect of having 2 land line phone bills vs. 1 shared cell phone plan.
So, since this is my first time I’d like to request input from all of you as to what I should look for in a cell phone plan and in a cell phone from said plan. Neither Kathy nor I talk on the phone that much and we’ll primarily be calling either each other or family back in New Mexico.
What says the council in this my hour need?
A bit inspiring, if depressing at the low standards, a nice column on Obama and foreign policy:
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It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Democrats’ nomination of Obama as their candidate for president has done more to improve America’s image abroad — an image dented by the Iraq war, President Bush’s invocation of a post-9/11 “crusade,” Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay and the xenophobic opposition to Dubai Ports World managing U.S. harbors — than the entire Bush public diplomacy effort for seven years.</blockquote
David Ortiz became a card-carrying US citizen yesterday.
Of course he made sure to look sharp for the event
Congrats, big guy! Nice to have you counted among us.
The above could apply to many people, certainly, but in this case I’m labeling Roger Clemens and David Stern. If this were on Slashdot, I would file the post in the “people in glass houses… category” or something like that.
Basically, if you’re going to file a libel-like suit, you’d better be damn sure that you the other guy doesn’t have anything on you. In the case of the Roid-ket, he had no business claiming “defamation of character” when he’d already had multiple affairs, possibly one with a 15-year-old, and another with John Daly’s ex-wife.
Now it comes out from the NBA ref who got caught betting on/fixing games that there were other refs involved, and that multiple playoff games were affected. Why did he disclose the info now, in the middle of the NBA finals? Because Stern just filed a suit against Donaghy for $1mil… as if he didn’t have anything to lose. Not only is Stern a bully and an asshole, but he’s also a dummy.
