Archive for January 27th, 2004

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We Need to Work on the Parking

The Dowbrigade is off to give another driving lesson to his 19-year-old
son, the one who wants a Hummer so he can crush other cars out of parking
spaces, the one who eats frozen burritos raw to save time.  He claims
[…]

Mission Impossible

Against
his better judgment, the Dowbrigade has agreed to attempt one of the
toughest tasks he has tackled in his entire teaching career - explaining
NFL Football to a class of foreign college students […]

Japander

Pander:n., & v.t.
1. go-between in clandestine amours, procurer; one who ministers to evil
designs. 2 v.i. minister (to base passions or evil
designs, or person having these)
Japander:n.,& v.t. […]

Wanted: Comprehensive Political Calendar

After an extensive search, we finally found an iCal calendar called American Politics and Government with most of
the presidential primaries and some of the debates.  However it is
clearly incomplete.  For example it lists only two primaries for
next Tuesday: Oklahoma and North Dakota.  Whereas a static web
site with a simple primary calendar lists eight: the two […]

Cultural Dissonance

This article from the New
York Times covers a company whose role
seems to be to help business travelers avoid costly faux pas when traveling
abroad. […]

Clinton’s E-mail Total - Two Messages

The
archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain 39,999,998
e-mails by the former president’s staff and two by the man himself.
"The only two he sent," Skip Rutherford, president of the Clinton
[…]


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