Sunday, June 27th, 2010
a couple of words about football.
today’s football games were riddled with the continuing controversy of FIFA’s refusal to incorporate technological arbitration for poor play calls.
for those that didn’t catch the games, England was down 2-1 against Germany and kicked the ball into the goal tthat was disallowed because the ball hit the top bar, bounced once close to the plane, [...]
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
conceptual shift in financial priorities with a side commentary on the change of internet social networking
for various reasons, something started taking shape for me since i moved to new orleans regarding travel.
when i lived in eugene i didn’t travel that much. usually any travel were road trips related to DDR tournaments in either seattle or san fran which would occupy a weekend or four days. There were several [...]
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
the problem with anti-smoking
people that don’t know me that well could find it head-scratchable to hear “anti-smoking adverts make me want to start smoking” come out of my mouth, particularly given my history of asthma. i’ll admit that as a non-smoker it’s nice to be in a public place and not have to deal with a stale [...]
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
gustav: the overhype of the century
i’ve always had a pretty healthy disregard for television news and rolling news channels in particular (CNN, Headline News, etc.) but it wasn’t until i watched Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe special on news that i could understand my distaste for it in concrete terms. Now whenever rolling news tries to put itself in the spotlight [...]