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    It’s your standard “girl meets boy, girl kidnaps boy’s girlfriend, girl gets arrested” love story. started by calamityjake
    Short summary:

    Female astronaut, Lisa Nowak works with male astronaut, William. Lisa likes William but is too shy to tell him. Lisa finds out William has a girlfriend, Colleen Shipman, in Florida. Lisa decides to drive from Houston to Orlando to confront him about it. And then, well, short declarative sentences won’t suffice for this part:When [...]
    Death to Twitter’s “Older” Button started by calamityjake
    Warning: this is going to be one of the more geeky/uninteresting posts in the history of this blog (and that’s saying something). I am going to criticize the user interface of Twitter. So just prepare yourself for that (or click “next” in Google Reader).Here’s the problem:I follow a fair number of people on Twitter. Not [...]
    Death to Twitter’s “Older” Button started by calamityjake
    Warning: this is going to be one of the more geeky/uninteresting posts in the history of this blog (and that’s saying something). I am going to criticize the user interface of Twitter. So just prepare yourself for that (or click “next” in Google Reader).Here’s the problem:I follow a fair number of people on Twitter. Not [...]
    Colbert Report’s fictitious blog, with very real contract terms. started by calamityjake
    Wednesday’s Colbert Report mentioned Integrity Justice, a blog Colbert said he was creating to seed fake news stories that he hoped would eventually get big enough to make it onto his show (video here). As weird as that may be, it’s not as weird as the show’s producers’ choice of what to actually put on [...]
    Great Moments in Criminal Justice started by calamityjake
    O.J. to discuss killings of wife, friend in TV interview


    “O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes,” the network said in a statement. “In the two-part event, Simpson describes how he would have carried out the [...]
    Harry Potter 7: started by calamityjake
    I finished it. I thought it was pretty good, but my main feeling is relief that I can safely go online again. I missed you guys!

    Brief discussion after the jump.

    I enjoyed the book and think that, once they excise all the sitting around in the forest and at the Weasley’s house, it will make a [...]
    The ribbon-cutting. started by calamityjake
    Screw it, I’m taking this blog out of beta.
    On Happiness started by calamityjake
    Often I think to myself that when I buy something—an iPod case, a new winter coat, some highlighters—that it will make me happy. But it usually doesn’t. And I finally figured out why. I’m not increasing my happiness, I’m merely lessening my unhappiness: I no longer have to be annoyed by scratches on my iPod; [...]
    A cockfight, only we’re using human beings. started by calamityjake
    This Slate story about Ultimate Fighting is pretty much just hilarious:Stoking the fury of aficionados and piquing the curiosity of novices, the announcers began to wind up the hype: “There is dislike. There is distrust. There is simply hatred.” In a clip, Shamrock, a veteran known as “the most dangerous man in the world,” expressed [...]
    Since we last spoke started by calamityjake
    Here’s what I’ve been up to:I took the California bar exam in Ontario, which is near Los Angeles. Also, it’s about 10 miles away from the epicenter of the 5.4 earthquake that hit towards the end of the first morning. So that was nice. But aside from that, things seemed to go fine. I mean, [...]
    Since we last spoke started by calamityjake
    Here’s what I’ve been up to:I took the California bar exam in Ontario, which is near Los Angeles. Also, it’s about 10 miles away from the epicenter of the 5.4 earthquake that hit towards the end of the first morning. So that was nice. But aside from that, things seemed to go fine. Fortunately, or [...]
    Tilting at Windbags? started by calamityjake
    My internet friend Tracy wrote a post about Deadspin that kind of blew up. Here’s the lede:The thing about sports is that it, well, tends to be an old-boys’ club. The sports world is full of sexist shit that pisses me off if I think about it too much (and, honestly, I’m not often prone [...]
    Arenas! started by calamityjake
    Just read it. Here’s a tidbit:And then she got so frustrated with that, because she came back with, “I take care of the kids and if you want the car cleaned, you have to clean it.” So we was on 16th and Constitution and she kicked me out of the car and I had to [...]
    | Time Makes Fools of Us All started by calamityjake
    My internet friend Tracy wrote a post about Deadspin that kind of blew up. Here’s the lede:The thing about sports is that it, well, tends to be an old-boys’ club. The sports world is full of sexist shit that pisses me off if I think about it too much (and, honestly, I’m not often prone [...]
    2L2Q started by calamityjake
    Not only does MC Hammer have a blog, the man has a philosophy.

    Warning: apparently there is some sound on the site.
    One of these links leads to bad language. started by calamityjake
    Guys, this is seriously my favorite thing on the entire internet: just click here already! Well, I also like all those lolcats things where it’s a guy crashing his bike into a tree and the caption is “FAIL.” Sort of like this or the image here. But really, little Batman is the best. You’ll agree [...]
    The part about meeting with leaders in the Jewish community may have been laying it on a bit thick. started by calamityjake
    There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of Anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge.

    I [...]
    They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico by the Golden Tee machine. started by calamityjake
    Hey look, in Texas they’re arresting people for public intoxication. No big deal, right? We don’t want people wandering the streets in a drunken stupor, exposing themselves and others to danger. Oh, wait a second. They’re arresting people while they’re in the bar? Well, that certainly puts an interesting spin on things.

    And while we’re talking [...]
    On the road again started by calamityjake
    As part of my unofficial evaluation of our flight security system, I’m off to spend a week in beautiful Denver, Colorado. I’ll be coming through New York City next weekend, and then I’ll be back in Boston.

    I will be checking in online, I’m sure, since I’m a giant loser, but probably not that frequently.
    I’m entertaining whilst saving lives. started by calamityjake
    Brush your teeth! started by calamityjake
    Excellent.
    A Proposition. started by calamityjake
    It’s been a while since I mentioned how much I can’t stand Carlos Mencia. Let’s get started.

    Comedy Central, let’s make a deal. If you take Carlos Mencia’s car-wreck of a show off the air and replace it with a half hour of any other content,* I hereby promise to tune in every single week, without [...]
    Most impressive. started by calamityjake
    A guy in *.co.uk does some amazing things with sheets of paper. The remarkable thing is not merely the precision and ingenuity of the cuts but the fact that, as far as I can tell, it’s all still attached. It’s hard to explain, so you’re better off just checking it all out here.
    In other news, a child predator chairs the committee to prevent child predators. started by calamityjake
    A man wants to ban Fahrenheit 451, a book about the travesty that is banning books, during banned books week. And he hasn’t read it.Alton Verm, of Conroe, objects to the language and content in the book. His 15-year-old daughter Diana, a CCHS sophomore, came to him Sept. 21 with her reservations about reading the [...]
    I’m 3000 miles and 18 hours of testing away from a vacation. started by calamityjake
    Okay guys. Tomorrow morning I head off to California to take a test. It’ll be over on Thursday, after which I will be on vacation for a while.

    I’ll be in San Francisco from the 1st to the 4th, then in Vancouver from the 4th to the 7th, then in Seattle from the 7th to the [...]
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