Archive for June, 2007
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22 Jun 2007A barfight there last weekend ended in a fatal stabbing, and it stirred up the ghost of Whitey Bulger. They've closed the fourth-least-sketchy bar in Southie.
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21 Jun 2007Neat things come in weird packages
The new faceplate I ordered for my phone came today. It took about 10 minutes to install. Now it isn't covered in pockmarks anymore!
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20 Jun 2007I love that graph. I'm already shopping for solar panels to put on my house so I can do the same.
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20 Jun 2007
Quick hypothetical: You're at the library, and you pull a copy of The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell from the shelf. Before bringing it to the front desk to check out, you flip through the pages, and an envelope falls out. You pick it up, and it's stamped and sealed and addressed to a P.O. Box one town over. What would you do with it?
Followup: Would your answer change if it came out of:
- ... a volume of Encyclopedia Britannica?
- ... Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban by J. K. Rowling?
- ... The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism by Matthew Carr?
- ... a book on the new releases shelf?
- ... a magazine?
If no to all of the above, is there any case where your answer would be different?
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19 Jun 2007The interesting thing here for me isn't the improvement from 1.5 to 2.0, but rather it's the overall speed at which the automatic upgrading system makes widespread massive upgrades.
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18 Jun 2007Apparently GameCopyWorld is full of adware and spyware
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17 Jun 2007Left field
At the Pawtucket Red Sox game last night. It was tied 3-3 going into the bottom of the ninth, but George Kottaras hit the very first pitch of the inning for a home run and the game ended suddenly.
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15 Jun 2007I'd frequently heard the term, but never details about the NYC cultural phenomenon. It's stories like these that make me glad I live in a little-bit-less-dense city.
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15 Jun 2007You are officially old.
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15 Jun 2007