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  Caught a friend on Cash Cab

  04.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  We don’t let Niko watch a lot of tv, but his two favorite shows are Cash Cab and Deadliest Catch. Today we turned on Cash Cab just in time to see a friend of ours from b-school (w/ three other ppl) miss the last strike and get booted out of the cab with nothing.
  Apparently those [...]

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  Do you tip for takeout

  04.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

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• news, personal

  Cornell loses to Stanford

  03.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Cornell loses to Stanford:

  With the 7-foot Lopez twins altering shots inside and defenders in the face of Cornell’s perimeter shooters, it didn’t take an Ivy League degree to figure out the Big Red was in big trouble.

  I think this makes three or four NCAA tournament players I’ve played against - Tim Young the was [...]

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  My pick is Cornell to win it all

  03.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Cornell in the NCAA tournament:

  Apparently our team made an impression on the Wildcats; many of us overheard one of Kentucky’s players remark, “They look like a high school team.”

• personal, travel

  CNN: What’s the best city in America?

  03.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  CNN wants to know what’s the best city in America? Take the survey and if you want to be right, choose Seattle!

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  Thanks for the chemistry homework

  03.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today someone I don’t know faxed me six pages of extra credit homework for a chem 106 class. If they knew my chem grades… they definitely would have asked someone else to look it over. Well, Emmie Johnson, I did what I could to help you out before sending it on to the correct fax [...]

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  Deep mysteries of the universe

  01.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Have you ever watched a foreign movie with both english dubbed dialogue and english subtitles? It’s as if they try to make the dialogue and the subtitles different. Some of our favorite examples from The Host:

  Dialogue: Am I fucking blind?
  Subtitles: You really didn’t see it?
  …
  Dialogue: You are dimwits right to the end.
  Subtitles: Morons, to the [...]

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  The water is good, but watch out for the cave dwellers

  01.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  After overnight stops in Chicago (scheduled) and Puerto Rico (unscheduled, apparently the communication system for the Aruba airport does not have a battery backup) we’ve been in Aruba since Monday.
  While there’s not a whole lot to do here, we’ve had two interesting wildlife experiences so far… leading my wife to compare the trip to two [...]

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  Install Wikipedia on your ipod

  12.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  How to install Wikipedia on your ipod (from digg).

• personal, science

  The secret to rock, paper, scissors

  12.19.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The secret to winning at rock, paper, scissors (from yc news).

  Research shows that stone, also called rock, is the most popular of the three possible moves in the game.
  That means that your opponent is likely to choose paper, because they will expect to you to start the game with stone.
  By going with scissors, you achieve [...]

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