It’s time for the annual “Why the fuck did I move to Boston?” snow post!
View from my apartment!
It’s so beautiful!
The tops of buildings are all white….
Heh, poor sucker…
Trying to clean off his car…
Oh, crap. I have to do that too.
Ugh….
From the front
Finally getting the door open…
Halfway done…
After this, my hands started feeling really cold, [...]
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I absolutely love this video of the Bartered Bride Overture by Bedrich Smetana:
When they cut to the full orchestra around 1:29, I get goosebumps.
Technorati Tags: Smetana, Classical Music
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Crocs, those ugly shoes that have even earned the hate of Maddox, have apparently worn out their welcome. Shares of Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX) are giving back over 25% on weak earnings. In other words, if you bought a share of CROX yesterday, that share is now worth 75% of what you paid for it.
Of course, [...]
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Turns out that there’s a sweeter reason than just “saving energy” in Congress’s move to extend Daylight Saving Time by one week:
The candy lobby also played a significant role in pushing Halloween into daylight saving time, believing that extra hour of trick-or-treating in daylight would spur more candy sales but arguing that it would decrease [...]
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From the LA Times:
“When they ignore Veterans Day and Memorial Day, I think they’re telling us something about the way they view America,” said Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily.com, a conservative website that has criticized Google’s logo decisions.
Boo hoo hoo, WorldNetDaily.com. You’d be in a position to talk if your website was full of American [...]
Sometimes I think I could be a hotshot Hollywood producer. Though I usually come to the realization that my talents would be totally worthless and wasted.
Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead”. This Neanderthal thinking comes after both [...]
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From Brandeis University’s Library and Technology Services:
Second, we develop the “vaporware” that allows robust and maintainable interaction between core systems like PeopleSoft, myBrandeis, library systems and others.
How’s that for some marketing?
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From Variety
It plans to turn “The Office” into a humorous game in which players have to handle jobs and play pranks at Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch.
Wow. There’s only so many ways to make a stupid.
Technorati Tags: The Office, Sellouts
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From NPR:
Phoenix is the city most at risk for identity fraud, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Their new survey shows writing a check is not safer than banking online because of a scam called “check washing.” The thief erases the ink on a check and fills in whatever he wants.
Fairly obvious, but [...]
From the Division Series in Major League Baseball: If the Philadelphia Phillies (playing the Colorado Rockies) and Chicago Cubs (playing the Arizona Diamondbacks) each win one of their next two games, then we have a rare quadruple-playoff-header on Sunday.
That’s 12 solid hours of meaningful games. Rockin’.
Technorati Tags: baseball, Red Sox
