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Entries from September 2004

Body Shots

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off on Body Shots

Body Shots: “It’s a typically raucous Saturday night inside the Baja Beach Club, a wildly popular discotheque in Barcelona, Spain. House music blares. Ecstatic partygoers grope blindly on the dance floor. Voluptuous waitresses in pink bikinis and grass skirts crisscross the crowd delivering overpriced mai tais. A miasma of cigarette smoke lingers just above the […]

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Tags: technology

Moore’s Pep Letter

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004 · 1 Comment

For those of you who are dismayed or frustrated or fear that Bush will win in November (my wife), this is for you: “The polls are wrong. They are all over the map like diarrhea. On Friday, one poll had Bush 13 points ahead — and another poll had them both tied. There are three […]

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Tags: politics

Open Debates

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004 · 1 Comment

“The Presidential debates — the single most important electoral event in the process of selecting a President — should provide voters with an opportunity to see the popular candidates discussing important issues in an unscripted manner. But the Presidential debates fail to do so, because the major party candidates secretly control them. “Presidential debates were […]

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Tags: politics

Dropping Temperature

Monday, September 20th, 2004 · Comments Off on Dropping Temperature

It’s really starting to feel like an early winter here. The thermometer showed a chilly 44 this morning, and I’m wearing a hat for the first time since last winter. It’s going to be a cold one!

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Tags: saratoga springs

Weekend Fun

Sunday, September 19th, 2004 · Comments Off on Weekend Fun

We got the weekend off to an early start on Thursday when we hit the town with Justin. We hit the usual places — Nine Maple, Gaffney’s, DA’s — and topped off the night with some glow-in-the-dark bocce ball in the yard. A super-fun school night out. Since we did that partying on Thursday, we […]

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Tags: weekends

Hurricane Ivan

Friday, September 17th, 2004 · Comments Off on Hurricane Ivan

My thoughts are with those suffering from being hit by Hurricane Ivan. Pretty incredible what Mother Nature can do. It really puts things in perspective.

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Tags: the world

Drink More Beer

Thursday, September 16th, 2004 · Comments Off on Drink More Beer

Oh yes. Study Shows Beer Has Same Benefits As Red Wine: “Beer drinkers can toast the news that their favourite beverage possesses the same benefits as red wine, the alcohol long celebrated for its antioxidant properties. “Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have found one drink of beer or wine provides equivalent increases in […]

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Tags: the world

Hurricanes

Thursday, September 16th, 2004 · Comments Off on Hurricanes

The thing that’s crazy to me about all these hurricanes sweeping through Florida and the gulf states is all the television anchors who put themselves in the midst of 100-plus mile-per hour winds to get the best shots. Last night, A_nderson Cooper was in Mobile, Alabama talking about how the entire city had evacuated, but […]

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Tags: the world

International CXT

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004 · 2 Comments

H2 not big enough for you? No worries. Just fork over 100 grand or so, and the new International CXT industrial-size truck built on a dump-truck frame — with dump-truck functionality — can be yours. It’s street legal and you don’t even need a commercial license to drive it. It’s 2-1/2 feet taller than the […]

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Tags: rants

A9

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004 · Comments Off on A9

Wow. I’ve only barely begun to use it, but I can see that the future of Web browsing and searching is about to change. It combines the best of the Web under one hood: the power of the Google search, IMDB, Amazon book search, and more. You can search and browse through your own search […]

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Tags: web stuff