Month: February 2006
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Gamerscore Addict
I think I'm original in this, but maybe not. I came up with a new word today while browsing my Xbox Live gamerscore in comparison with friends. I submit to you: gamerwhore. I think to be a gamerwhore you should compare your gamerscore to others frequently (I do), but you should have also played NBA…
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Wrapping Up in Taiwan
10:30pm Saturday in Taiwan, and 6:30am Saturday in Seattle. Our work here in Taiwan is wrapped up, and we spent today wandering around the city doing some photography. I should have around 200 pictures to upload when we return. We visited the electronics district of Kaohsiung today. I was a bit disappointed with it –…
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Ahoy… from Taiwan!
Ahh, the first blog entry written from outside of the United States. This week finds me travelling for work in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. I'm currently sitting on the 36th floor of the Grand Hi-Lai Hotel (a 5-star hotel for $90/night, are you kidding me?) overlooking the harbor of Kaohsiung. It's a beautiful town. We left Seattle…
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Great Macro Pictures
Via Boing Boing, I found this site full of “teeny-tiny people on top of food”. It's oddly cool. And oddly addicting to scroll through the pictures. Trés cool.
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Saddam and WMD
So, I'm reading this article, and it's talking about how obsessed Saddam Hussein apparently was about WMD, based on some tapes found in Iraq. Transcripts of Saddam's tapes reviewed by NBC News show him ruminating about future terror attacks in the United States using weapons of mass destruction. “We shouldn't be surprised to see a…
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State of the Union, Follow-Up Actions
So, after hearing the State Of The Union last night, I was looking forward to the next steps as far as getting the education system back in growth mode as it relates to math and sciences. Maybe, restoring some of the National Science Foundation budget that the Republican congress yanked out. Maybe boosting student loan…