February 2007

Twenty-six degrees.

February 19, 2007

One of the many benefits of the internet revolution is that it’s now a lot easier to look up long-lost friends from high school or college. The alumni websites (alumni.net, classmates.com, reunion.something-or-other) are especially useful for learning what’s become of whom. The results are occasionally mildly ironic. For instance, one former roommate—who used to listen [...]

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On the end of the Bears’ season (’06-’07).

February 4, 2007

[Posted 10:05 PM ET.] Looks like “Bad Rex” showed up today, but the real culprit in my book is Ron Turner for his stupid, stupid, stupid playcalling. For Chrissakes will somebody please fire him? NOW? Congratulations to Tony Dungy, Peyton Manning and the rest of the Colts, who played what we like to call “smart.” More analysis [...]

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Tomorrow’s the big day.

February 3, 2007

One of my roommates up in Wheaton was a waiter. Not a very ethical one, and evidently not one slick enough to accommodate his lack of ethics, but a waiter nonetheless. He kept trying to run a very, very old waiter’s scam, and for whatever reason—which usually was that the managers knew all about this [...]

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