Monthly Archives: September 2007

in which the author feels like bitching

Posted on September 30, 2007 by gee

Reading the comments on a Wired article about our first Angkasawan’s Kaabah dilemma in space makes me less and less tolerant of the morons crawling around cyberspace. Listen, you ignorant joes, I don’t disparage your diaper-wearing earth-bound psycho astronauts and … Continue reading →

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anna nicole redux

Posted on September 30, 2007 by gee

24 year old unemployed dude weds 82 year old woman in Argentina. I like my Sundays to be entertaining and weird.

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ND = nothin doin

Posted on September 29, 2007 by gee

So. Purdue hands Notre Dame their fifth straight loss of the season today, beating them 33-19. I hope this means people with ND-USC tickets will be looking to get rid of them.

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what a glorious day

Posted on September 29, 2007 by gee

My 7.45 am double grande peppermint latte was made perfect, the barista was charming, the subbing teacher was really hot and during my second stop at SB the cute barista was working. Yea. And now, back to reality.

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surviving the library

Posted on September 28, 2007 by gee

One of the really cool things that the library put out this semester is the IU Survival Guide: Libraries Edition: It’s done in the style of those Worst Case Scenarios handbooks and offers good advice on just about most things … Continue reading →

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happy days at Auschwitz

Posted on September 27, 2007 by gee

If you have the time and are so inclined the US Holocaust Memorial Museum has an online exhibit of photographs taken by a Nazi officer of a vacation lodge for the SS near Auschwitz. I forget where I found this … Continue reading →

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Team USA gets Brazilian waxed

Posted on September 27, 2007 by gee

It was a 4-0 victory for Brazil in the semifinals of the Womens World Cup. (yes, I was dying to use that headline)

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How Far We’ve Come

Posted on September 25, 2007 by gee

Matchbox Twenty’s new one: Rob Thomas thinks he’s part Bono sometimes. And it’s not the greatest single I’ve ever heard from them. But you know what this means tho..? TOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Album comes out October 2nd. kthx)

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Invisible in Iran

Posted on September 25, 2007 by gee

D told me (because I couldn’t be assed — hehe, assed — to watch tv) that Ahmedinejad first got bitch-slapped by Columbia’s President Lee Bollinger while intro’ing him. Kinda funny if you ask me. The second funny thing was Ahmadinejad’s … Continue reading →

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Jenny Owen Youngs

Posted on September 24, 2007 by gee

I ‘ve fallen completely in like with her: Seriously, I’m totally going over to iTunes now to find her.

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Sony brings back rumble to controller

Posted on September 23, 2007 by gee

Finally. But it’s going to be sold separately, not packaged with the PS3 console. What absolute bollocks! Another reason to hold off buying the console until they come to their senses. I give them until next Christmas. You’ll see.

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OMG I noez ur sekritz lulz!!one!111!

Posted on September 22, 2007 by gee

Can you believe someone combined my two favoritest things (that’s PostSecret and lolcats for you uninitiated) on the internet and created lolsecretz?? Some choice submissions so far:

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I hate the freaking Midwest

Posted on September 21, 2007 by gee

Pac 10 football kicks off this weekend. USC will play Washington State. Will I get to see it? No. Why? ‘Cause programming geniuses in ABC think that more people would want to watch unranked Iowa play at Wisconsin on primetime … Continue reading →

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oh, if you must

Posted on September 20, 2007 by gee

I think chapter thirty of The Deathly Hallows, ‘The Sacking of Severus Snape’ is the best chapter of the entire book. For reals. It’s got drama, action, humour, reunion, redemption, salvation, sarcasm, revelations and so on and so forth. I … Continue reading →

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Bright light city’s gonna get my soul

Posted on September 20, 2007 by gee

Around December I’ma be in Vegas and I am: – going to catch some world class pool players doing their thing at the 2007 Mosconi Cup – wondering if Michaela Tabb will be refereeing at the Mosconi Cup – thinking … Continue reading →

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