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Pete on October 20th, 2004

No surprise here, but Teresa Heinz-Kerry is a total bitch. Fark Headline: “Teresa Heinz questions whether Laura Bush has ever had a real job; In other news, number of real jobs T Heinz and John Forbes Kerry have held is less than the number of marriages between them” (LINK) This exchange in the comment thread amused me [...]

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Pete on October 19th, 2004

Here we have a group of folks who THOUGHT they were voting to legalize marijuana but were actually registering as Republicans — they obviously couldn’t be bothered to read what they signed… (Via: Kristin) …that laziness/apathy may be contrasted with the fact that Nevadans are dying to vote for Bush[#].

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Pete on October 19th, 2004

John Martinkus is an Austrailian reporter who was working in Baghdad when he was abducted by militants insurgents terrorists on Sunday. This AP article sheds a little light on an interesting piece of information: the terrorists googled Martinkus before deciding to let him go. Martinkus’ executive producer at Australia’s SBS network, Mike Carey, said the [...]

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Pete on October 19th, 2004

Now folks, I usually criticize the Kerry-Edwards camp and, let’s be honest, there’s no shortage of fronts on which to criticize them. This, however, is not one of them. It’s important to have perfect hair at all times, and carrying around a compact is NOT — I repeat — NOT a feminine thing to do! John [...]

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Pete on October 18th, 2004

NOTE: High nerdery forthcoming, make your time. So, for over two years now I’ve been using Mailwasher to check my email, delete and bounce the spam, and generally save me the hassle of downloading stuff I didn’t need to my computer. At some point along the way, Mailwasher went from being “free”[#] to being a commercial software [...]

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Pete on October 18th, 2004

I’m not sure how much of this is factually accurate, but it sure is funny. I’m trying to get all this political stuff straightened out in my head so I’ll know how to vote come November. Right now, we have one guy saying one thing. Then the other guy says something else. Who to believe. Lemme [...]

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Pete on October 18th, 2004

The BCS rankings are out. no big surprise with USC at #1 but (as one might expect) the new BCS system, lacking the Strength of Schedule component, is positively licking Utah’s boots… despite being #9 and #10 in the human polls, Utah is only a few hundreths of a point out of 6th place. 6th [...]

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Pete on October 15th, 2004

At lunch today I was bound and determined to get some barbeque, which I eventually did, but in the meantime I came to the realization that while Tuscaloosa drivers are not normally outstanding, there’s a special brand of stupid out there on the roads today. Said stupid can be represented adquately by this graph. You have been [...]

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Pete on October 14th, 2004

Alright, so this isn’t like some sort of major accomplishment given that I only have two classes, but both of my midterms are done. I took one on tuesday, which I got back today (A) and took one today which I’m pretty sure everyone failed… hopefully I’ll be on the high end of the failing [...]

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Pete on October 13th, 2004

We often become what we pretend to be, so we should be very careful what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut

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