Archive for June, 2006
don’t cry for me, argentina…
Our crew grew to five today as Starkey and Inno joined us at Barclays to watch the Argentina-Germany quarterfinal. The pub was packed, but the match was quite boring…
…until Argentina scored early in the second half. Germany was then forced to attack to tie the game or be eliminated, making the game A LOT more [...]
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Tags: futbol, sports, World Cup
Hong Kong – Tibet activists scaled the façade of Beijing’s Central Railway Station and unfurled a banner reading “China’s Tibet Railway: Designed to Destroy.” The protest was held on the eve of the launch of the new rail line that will link, for the first time, Beijing and Lhasa. Tibetans fear that the Chinese Government [...]
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Tags: actions, friends, Ruckus, Tibet
transamerica…
I just saw Transamerica. I thought it was a good movie, but not as great a movie as I thought it would be after its Academy Award nominations and Golden Globe winnings. Felicity Huffman was an amazing actress, but the story-line seemed very contrived to me. I did think, however, that the movie was extremely [...]
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Tags: gender, movies
ghana succumbs to brazil…
Jeez, you’ve got to be dedicated to watch a World Cup match at 8am. Adrienne, Aditi, and I made it to Barclay’s at 8:15 this morning to watch the elimination match between Ghana and Brazil. I won’t make that mistake again…
…for the next one, I’m showing up on time!
By the time we got there, Ronaldo [...]
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Tags: futbol, sports, World Cup
passwords, passwords, passwords…
I’m always bugging folks about passwords: make them random, long, complex, etc. and DON’T USE THE SAME ONE everywhere! This tool is a great solution. Just remember one password, and a parameter, and the rest is done for you.
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Tags: geek, passwords, privacy
argentina advance…
Argentina defeated Mexico 2-1, but needed extra time to do it. I watched the game at Barclays in Oakland, where the crowd was split fairly evenly between Argentine fans and Mexican fans, making this game that much more fun!
Despite being low-scoring, the game was incredible. There were lots of attacks and counterattacks on [...]
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Tags: futbol, sports, World Cup
CEO paycheck – $42,000 a day?!?
The median income in America is mid 40K… and these guys are making this each day?!?
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This morning, I was telling my roommate that the US was out of the World Cup because of their loss to Ghana. A little while later, my other roommate awoke in a particularly good mood because she had incorporated bits of our conversation into her dream while she was sleeping. She overheard the “US being [...]
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Tags: dreams, futbol, Iraq, sports, war, World Cup
true revolutionaries…
“The true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love.” ~Ernesto Che Guevara
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Tags: love, quotes, revolution
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