ιρλανδική Τουρκία

28Mar08

There’s a reason you get this Irish turkey:
“Ireland’s puppet entry Dustin the Turkey has been censored! The lyrics of the song contain a list of European countries, including Macedonia. Someone made a formal complain to the European Broadcasting Union (and everyone’s fingers are pointing at Greece) so Dustin has to use the agreed [...]

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h*te

27Mar08

Yesterday, I received an email from the Arts and Sciences dean at Vanderbilt, Richard McCarty, addressed to faculty in the school. It indicated that there were “anonymous postings from Vanderbilt to a web site (Juicy Campus) that contain the most offensive and vile racial epithets” he had seen in a very long time. [...]

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fuzz on the cheese

26Mar08

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these things are honest and beautiful

24Mar08

“The Knox County Public Library only has one outlet and to plug into it you pretty much have to sit inside the potted ficus tree. The Knox County Public Library has not been renovated since my last visit in 1988. The Knox County Public Library probably has not been renovated since 20 years before my [...]

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happy monday, mfer.

24Mar08

white people, get over yourselves.
“THE BEST-INFORMED PERSON I EVER KNEW was a friend of my grandfather’s back in the Bronx, where I grew up. Every morning of every day of his life, this elderly man — his name, as I recall, was Boris — would dress impeccably in a suit and waistcoat and shuffle to [...]

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clap clap

22Mar08

Ahem.  You and what army?

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Good friday.

21Mar08

h/t mp

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there are too few like you, Jack.

20Mar08

 
Keivan introduced me to Marcel about a year or two ago, when we were trying to convince him to move to Nashville and join us at Vanderbilt for his post doc.  But Columbia won him instead, and since then, Marcel’s been working in the lab, supervising  a special group of high school students, and taking [...]

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dmx more afghan hound than german shepherd*

18Mar08

thanks mark!  now i know dmx is either not funny or not smart.
* you know: not smart, not intelligent.

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lena’s best of ted, er, 2007

17Mar08

Jonathan Harris and his visualizations.  G-d-mn I wish he was my RA.

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