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Does Gillette think men are stupid?

On: October 17th, 2006 at 5:11 pm | Number of Comments » 0

Don’t answer that. Of course men are stupid, but does Gillette have to prey on male stupidity? Take a look at this elaborate mailing I got yesterday:

If you can make out the fine print you will see that this is a FIVE BLADE RAZOR! I used to joke about a five blade razor coming out [...]


The Value of Losing

On: October 17th, 2006 at 1:55 pm | Number of Comments » 0

After a winning streak so long I’ve forgotten how long, I lost today at racquetball, 14-16. The few times I’ve lost over the past three years have always been by the same score, in overtime. My partner, Peter Lorge who has improved tremendously over the course of our playing, was hitting winners and I was [...]


Over 300,000,000 served

On: October 17th, 2006 at 8:49 am | Number of Comments » 5

Today at 7:46AM, shortly before I woke up so I missed the excitement, the U.S. (non-illegal immigrant) population reached the 300,000,000 mark. I think this must be the “October surprise” that Republicans have been waiting for to turn the tide or strengthen the firewall or mangle whatever metaphor they are currently using to spin their [...]


Goyatunes: Reloaded

On: October 17th, 2006 at 12:00 am | Number of Comments » 5

Gosh, I haven’t reloaded Goyatunes for a couple weeks. I was running low on server space recently (got a notice to that effect from my hosting service, Bluehost), panicked, and deleted all but the latest tunes to make room for new stuff. And then I read on the Bluehost site that new accounts are getting [...]