Archive for January, 2004

Wine.com

A while back, you could order wine from Wine.com and have it shipped right to you. This is an awesome thing. Then, politics got in the way, and you couldn’t ship to Michigan. But now….
… they’re back! We think… we haven’t actually tried to order yet, but the website states that they will, in fact, [...]

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Actors’ politics pollute ‘Ring’

Saw this piece on USATODAY at lunch…
“If you want to send a message, call Western Union,” said Hollywood pioneer Samuel Goldwyn to filmmakers and stars who sought to use their movie projects to advance some political agenda.
Can anyone pinpoint the moment in Hollywood (or New York, for that matter), when celebrities thought that their [...]

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Pet adoptions

Animal shelters must deal with the same apartment complexes over and over and over. Why is it that they can’t say, oh I don’t know, make a LIST of the places that accepts what pets and which ones don’t. I can’t believe we have to wait until Monday for them to verify that our apartments [...]

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Where were you when they came for your computer?

If there’s nothing that irks me more, it’s the idiots in the music/technology/political/religious debate surrounding music and music/file sharing. After reading this, I won’t buy an HP or Compaq product for a long time.
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Pets

So, we’ve been thinking about a pet for while.
After breakfast this morning, our usual routine of tea and TV took its usual turn: to Animal Planet. Every Saturday at 9am, they show “Breed All About It”. Why do I know this? You know why… every Saturday at 9am, it’s on my TV.
And the debate [...]

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Computer Programming cum Deconstructionalist - An Adventure

This is all over the place by now, but this guy really took some academics to task over how they survive in academia.. good for him.
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