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November, 2008:

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When I am PM, I am going to taser any staffer who e-mails something to another party. If you can’t figure out email, you can’t work for me # I can’t understand the BCS. Why bother playing if beating your opponent (OU) means nothing in the end? # Ever since I have started wearing a [...]

links for 2008-11-30

The Twelve Greatest Defunct Tech Magazines Ever | Technologizer Wow, I now know what old people feel like when they read the paper and seeing all of their friends listed in the obits. This is the ten greatest defunct tech magazines ever. We used to spend hours pouring over these looking at all of the hot new [...]

The Empire Strikes Back

Wendy responds to my post about her Christmas shopping skills on her blog.  I apparently am quite hard to shop for.  I like to think I have discriminating tastes but I’ll accept her point.

Saturday night thoughts

Some of you have noticed that I am using del.icio.us to collect and automatically post the contextless links around here.  There have been those that don’t like it and those that enjoy the extra tagging options that it gives you as a reader to discover other cool stuff.  You can let me know what you [...]

links for 2008-11-29

How a coalition could take hold (tags: Canada politics ConservativeParty NDP Liberal_Party) Trojans dominate Fighting Irish 38-3 – College Football – Rivals.com Notre Dame went almost three quarters without a first down. They are a long ways away from even being a decent college football team. (tags: NCAA football NotreDame) 2008 Revisited | Our first [...]

links for 2008-11-27

Mighty Goods: Marshmallow Shooter Good if morale is low at the office and really good if you are the cause of low morale. (tags: work) Mighty Goods: Secret Agent Walkie-Talkie Pens Don't we all want some of these? (tags: communications) Radar Pitch Baseball specs This is cool. A $20 baseball with a radar built right [...]

links for 2008-11-26

Canada: Poor more likely to be hospitalized: Report Sadly not much of a shock here. (tags: health Canada poverty) $3.9 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket It's actually over $8 trillion in outlays due to the recession according to the Motley Fool. (tags: recession economics business USA) The Timber-Framed Cabin Project This is a [...]

Why western Canada looks down on Ontario

It’s simple, they can’t drive in the snow.

links for 2008-11-25

Could Weis be cooked? I hope so. (tags: football NCAA NotreDame) U.S. Plans $800 Billion in Lending to Ease Crisis I remember back in the day when a $750 billion deal was a big thing. (tags: splurge economics recession business debt) Tall Skinny Kiwi: Recession: How Bad Is It? Andrew Jones is asking how the [...]

"I hate dat Derek Jeter too"

A couple of years ago when we were in Boston for Soularize, our hotel had a little (kind of big) fire in it.  As we were exiting, some Boston firemen were entering the building with axes and  theirfire hose.  I was expecting them to have their game faces on and be in the zone to [...]

links for 2008-11-25

Somali Pirates Move Saudi Tanker as Islamists Warn of Attacks I am not a military expert by any means but I am assuming that giving up the element of surprise was a bad thing. (tags: military)

Best Excuse Ever…

At 11 p.m. at work we do a head count.  Guys are asked to stay in their rooms and the dorms and guys coming from the outside as just asked to stay in the lobby for a couple of minutes while we do a security round. Tonight a guy comes down just as I am [...]

links for 2008-11-23

Vince Young Has Gone From Stardom to the Shadows Has a star ever fallen so far, so fast. Well actually there was this Michael Vick guy once… (tags: football nfl) Coming Home This was posted in the comments of a MetaFilter post that describes the reality of day labour for thousands of Americans and Canadians. [...]

links for 2008-11-22

Roy, religion and the Habs If I was George Gillette and owned the Habs, I never would have retired Patrick Roy's number. Sorry, he walked out on the team when things didn't go his way. Let Colorado retire it. (tags: hockey) Syracuse shocks Notre Dame 24-23 Sing it with me. Fire Charlie Weiss. Fire Charlie [...]

The Dying Last Gasp

Iggy has a good post on Tony Jone’s recent comments about gay marriage and relationships in the church and what that doesn’t mean for the emerging church. I would expand on his post a bit and continue to beat the drum that the emerging church is a whole lot larger than Tony’s statements (or Brian’s [...]