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Archive for October 17th, 2006
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 by admin
I like this method of blogging….
For some reasons Philadelphia winters seem worse than DC winters. I don’t know why since right now it’s only going down to the 40s, a temperature not unusual for any area on the east coast this tmie of year, but I just feel like I spend more time feeling cold. It may be because:
The heat in our building isn’t working.
Doesn’t anyone build with storm windows anymore?
I somehow managed to lose my fantasy football game this week because Rex Grossman got me negative points last night. Unbelievable. I knew I should have started Hasselbeck.
In 1984, the Detroit Tigers won the world series. Also, the Chicago bears made it to the NFC championship game. In 2006, the Tigers are in going to open the world series in a few days, and the Bears are 5-0, and likely headed to the playoffs. Also, a republican names Bush was in the whitehouse, albeit serving under the direction of an older man with grey hair who was not-so-secretly in poor health. Insert twilight zone music here.
In the PA governor’s race, has anyone else noticed that Lynn Swann’s debate strategy is reminiscent of Bush in 2004? Everyone says that Kerry/Rendell is a very good debator, and that Swann/Bush is the outsider with no real political experience. They then “win” the debate by simply not falling flat on their faces. It’s a good strategy – after all what we voters look for in a governor is someone who sets their expectations so low they can’t fail.
I can’t tell you how much joy it will give me to be able to vote for a senator again. It gives me even more joy to vote against Santorum.
Assuming Santorum loses (which the polls say is likely), Pennsylvania will have one of the most conservative Democratic senators (Casey) and one of the most liberal Republican ones (Specter).
Barrow Alaska has made both ESPN and the New York Times. For a town with a population of about 3000, that’s a lot of media exposure.
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 by admin
Random things:
I was checking out in the grocery store when the lady at the checkout line noticed me tossing a package of cheese into a bag which clready had meat in it. “Don’t you always keep your meat and your dairy separate?” she inquired.
The El-AL website proudly trumpets that they support IE, and other browsers will be supported soon. Yeesh, what decade are we in again? Speaking as a former web developer who spent time making sure javascript code would run in both IE and Netscape (I didn’t say it was recent experience), I can tell you with all confidence that it really isn’t that hard. We’re talking about just making sure to reference objects in one particular manner instead of another.
My office is on a “soft close” the week of Christmas. That means everyone is expected to take vacation time, unless they really REALLY want to work. I tried to get myself placed in the latter category since it’s not like I’ll be doing anything else over Christmas week (my dad will be working, my brother will still be in school, etc., etc.). Unfortunately they reasoned that they are already letting one person in my group work that week, and there won’t be enough work for both of us, so they’re making me waste a week of vacation on a holiday which is entirely meaningless to me. Why couldn’t they have forced me to take a week of vacation for sukkot or passover instead? Every day I’m starting to get jealous of Efrat more and more.
I’m going to Canada in November for a friend’s wedding. If anyone has any suggestions of things to do in Toronto, let me know.
If anyone knows of anything fo rmy wife to do while I’m in the hockey hall of fame, please let her know. :-)
Mother nature hates the New York Mets. Good for her.
I just found out that a friend of mine here has a family that runs a chocolate factory in New York.
Dredze and I finished the first chapter of pesachim tonight. Only 9 more to go! woohoo!
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