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Monthly Archive: September 2005
Sep
29
Sep
29
Halloween Costumes
Thanks to Ken for finding these examples. They don’t have Halloween here in Europe (not really), which is probably stunting the emotional development of millions of European children. But in the spirit of the season I thought I would post some tips for the aspiring home-made costume makers out there: Funny. Sacrilege.
Sep
29
Pub Quiz – New Record High Rank
Been so busy now that school started that I didn’t get a chance to immediately post the results of the Table of Contents’ last showing at the pub quiz. 3rd place!!! In case you weren’t keeping track, that’s the best we’ve ever done. We had a full complement of five players, including Ksenia from my …
Sep
23
Passengers saw landing drama on TV
What an amazing world we live in. Communications technology continues to astound me in the way it affects our lives. In my lifetime I watched as the Berlin wall was cut down. I watched the Twin Towers fall. I watched tanks roll through the Iraqi desert in real time. But if I had been on …
Sep
22
New Car
Let the citizens of the Netherlands beware: their streets are no longer safe. That’s because yours truly took the train today to Schiedam Centrum, walked to the showroom of Pelicar, slapped his wallet on the counter and said, “I need a car.” Amazingly enough, they had some to sell. Two exactly. There was one other …
Sep
22
TiVo Users Fear Recording Restrictions
I used to have a TiVo, and I loved it. The ability to “time shift” your TV watching, even while watching live TV, was fantastic. So you can imagine I was a little peeved when I read that TiVo had released an update to their software that allowed copyright owners to reach into your TiVo …
Sep
21
TV and Ethics
This is an interesting case. A woman gets vetted for “Extreme Makeover”. They interview her family, and encourage them to say mean things about the way she looks. Not so shocking. Then they cancel the girl’s appearance on the show because the jaw operation would take too long to heal. The girl goes home, and …
Sep
21
Pub Quiz – New Record Low Score!
The Table of Contents was in bad shape tonight. We only had three players and were missing key elements of our knowledge base such as sports, all things relating to the Netherlands, and music. Plus, the picture round was a collage of famous Scandinavians. Seeing as we had no Scandinavian expert, and since “famous Scandinavians” …
Sep
20
Fantasy Football 2005 – Week 2
The good guys are on a roll. Even though TO went off like a bomb in San Francisco, and even though my quarterback had one interception for every four completed passes, the good showing by my receivers and backs carried me to victory YET AGAIN. In all other categories the difference between our teams this …
Sep
20
North Korea
I love these guys. They are so crazy. Ever since the Taliban was routed I was worried that I would be deprived of “examples of crazy regimes”. But thankfully, North Korea has stepped up to the plate. Honestly, these guys are fucking nuts. Their “beloved leader” Kim Jong Il, is into wearing fashionably gigantic glasses, …