Archive for August, 2004
Friday, August 27th, 2004
DATELINE: Athens, Greece, August 24: A scoring controversy in the men's gymnastics apparatus finals leads to the crowd delaying the event for ten minutes by whistling and booing American Paul Hamm, who was scheduled to perform next.
DATELINE: Athens, Greece, August 26: Before sweeping the medals in the men's 200m, the ...
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Thursday, August 26th, 2004
Today is the 25th Annual Scott Jennings Day, and that's just fine by me. Of course, you should celebrate as your family's tradition would dictate, but after work, I'm going cruise over to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park to take in a ballgame and enjoy some peanuts and Miller Lite ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2004
What did I tell you people about travelling through time to the future? Hmmmm? I said it was a terrible idea for a number of reasons, correct? And we all agreed that it was a bad idea, right?
Then what the hell is this?
I'll tell you what it is: it's a ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2004
Cleaning my apartment, blah blah blah. Motions at work, no big surprises. Olympics on television, there's a treat. The car's fixed about $300 later, that's good.
I miss my girlfriend. I need to keep myself busy.
I turn 25 on Thursday. Refusing to think in terms of a milestone. Instead, going to ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2004
Thanks, BoingBoing. This photo gallery of "Stealth Lynndieing," the art of discreetly striking the infamous cig-dangling-dumb-pointing pose and snapping a quick picture, is brilliant and my new hobby.
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2004
You know how sometimes on one of them Star Trek shows they'll have a little exchange like this:
Captain guy: "Where the hell is Ensign Lopez?"
Dumb guy: "She's in Stellar Cartography, sir."
Just once, I want the captain to be all, "oh, Stellar Cartography, you say? Well, I'm glad you specified. For ...
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Sunday, August 15th, 2004
Mini Diplomat's show last night was fairly watchable, which was nice. A solid two-thirds-or-so of a Harold, which beat the record Ross and I set for a great one-third-or-so of a Harold that one time we did that. Ryan and Bill were there and I finally got to meet Tefler, ...
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Saturday, August 14th, 2004
Greetings from Chicago. Ross and I arrived last night and joined Zach at his ComedySportz show, did minor cavorting from there, and hit ImprovOlympic for the CageMatch, you know, to touch home base and lame shit like that. A time was had by all.
Midwesterners all look funny, pasty and doughy ...
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Friday, August 13th, 2004
I'm about to leave my office and go get on a plane for the first time in over TWO YEARS. Haven't flown in over two years! Unreal! Holy wow!
Diplomat plays Chicago on Saturday, so that's where I'll be. Local friends, have fun getting drenched — Chicago is forecast for sun ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2004
Putting to rest once and for all the issue of whether President Bush was AWOL from his National Guard duty during the Vietnam War, the men he served with have finally come forward to talk about the time they spent with the man who would become President of the United ...
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