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December 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 10:25 AM

The Dumbest Christmas Tradition

Merry Christmas. Attending midnight mass last night, (message delayed a bit due to technical difficulties) I was reminded of what is clearly one of the dumbest Christmas traditions practiced by many. Many (probably most) Christians will display a nativity
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006 8:57 AM

2006 Holiday Card

For those of you who weren't on my Christmas card list (or whose name fell after the point where I ran out of envelopes), my Christmas card for 2006 is available here (785K PDF). Download it, print it out (one 8 1/2 x 11 page), fold it into quarters,
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Friday, December 22, 2006 10:14 AM

One reason why it's cool to have WindowsCE on your mobile phone.

Like most Americans (and many others around the world), I've spent a lot of time the passed few weeks shopping for Christmas presents. Actually, I didn't spend that much until this week, which was part of the problem, so this week was a panic. Anyway,
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:34 PM

Ok, One more quiz...Commonly Confused Words Test

English Genius You scored 92% Beginner, 92% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 100% Expert! You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:00 AM

The BASIC classic Rock Test

I had stopped posting my results of online quizzes -- mainly because I'd stopped taking online quizzes -- but since I did so well on this one.. I'm not sure which 4 questions I got wrong (I was confident on all but one or two of them), but it was not
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Friday, December 08, 2006 1:10 PM

Life expectancies, II (really short ones)

To follow up on my earlier message on life expectancies, we should talk about the other confusing aspect of them: Why are they sometimes ridiculously low. For example, the present life expectancy for someone living in the USA is 77, which you'd think
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Friday, December 08, 2006 5:09 AM

Life Expectancies

After my messages about Rock Star: Supernova, I guess now I can talk about the other reality show I watch, NBC's " Biggest Loser ", which takes a group a overweight people, and puts them through a regiment of diet & exercise. The winner is the one
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