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Scrapings

Speech From The American President

August 3, 2010

I recently posted a link to this speech on my facebook page, but I think the Andy Shepherd (Michael Douglas) speech from The American President is definitely something worth posting in its entirety. I scraped it from here, and if you follow that linq, I believe you can actually watch the video from the movie [...]

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The Imp of the Perverse

June 10, 2010

These are not my words, they are Poe’s.  I’ve scraped the below story from this site. The Imp Of The Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Bibliographic Notes:  First published in the 1845 July issue of Graham’s Lady’s And Gentleman’s Magazine, and republished, in slightly revised form, in various of Poe’s other collections in later [...]

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SoloJoe’s Mammoth Range Traverse

May 17, 2010

Ok, so work is wicked busy and I’m exhausted.  I need to take my ass to bed.  I’ve been meaning to put together a post about SoloJoe’s traverse of the Great Range in the Adirondacks this past Thursday, but just haven’t done so.  Joe called me before he headed out, but I didn’t get a [...]

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eDating Profile FAIL (in my opinion)

March 31, 2010

So as you may or may not know, dear reader, I’m an avid internet dater.  I’m on the injured reserved list right now, so I can only spectate.  I’ll be back out there soon:  I don’t anticipate being an emotional cripple for all that much longer.  I have the OkCupid iPhone app (don’t judge), and [...]

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Yay Baltimore

August 15, 2009

I’m going to make this quick.  I’m sitting outside of a closed coffee shop in a semi-seedy part of Baltimore, about 6 blocks from my hotel.  Yay free wi-fi. The O’s won tonight, Pie (pronounced pee-YAY) hit for the cycle (single, double, triple, home run).  It was a pretty good game.  This is the third [...]

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Spotlight: The Science Creative Quarterly

August 3, 2009

A very good Monday morning to you, dear reader!  Today’s post will be unabashedly scraped from one of my favorite RSS feeds:  The Science Creative Quarterly.  10 QUESTIONS I HAVE FOR SCIENCE By Ralph Gamelli 1. In the not-too-distant future, a tree will fall in the forest. Is there any chance it will have been knocked [...]

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