Bookroll
- Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel
- David Rakoff

- 3 wds: Rhythmic Raw Rakoff
- The Signal and the Noise
- Nate Silver

- 3 wds: accessible, insightful, broad
- The Casual Vacancy
- J.K. Rowling

- 3 wds: captivating, political, believable
- The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War against al-Qaeda
- Neil Shah

- 3 wds: Captivating, informative, redacted
- The Blank Slate
- Steven Pinker

- 3 wds: Rant, lengthy, correct
- The Trial
- Franz Kafka

- 3 wds: Disheartening, linear, skippable
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Monthly Archives: January 2006
No Wonder People Go Into Hotline Withdrawl…
As The Note hypothesized, polls really are “crack for the weak.” Scientists asked political stalwarts on either side to watch videos of Kerry and Bush while they monitored the participants’ brains: “We did not see any increased activation of the … Continue reading
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One down, some to go
Finished off “Fall” term yesterday. Roomie had a grand plan to go skiing, and I certainly wasn’t going to get in the way, so I finished off my papers Sunday night/Monday morning and handed them in well before the 5pm … Continue reading
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“If you are male, it may make you barf.”
A Christian’s take on a funny gender-role-reversal ad presentation. (Warning: the presentation itself has some mature, but mostly tasteful, pics.) Procrastinating is fun….
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But I stay for the Jiggy Jugga’s
Random Stuff First funny H*R email to Strong Bad in a while. Was just drunk dialed by a DC Deaniac reuninon…I miss DC. December pics: pinyon haben and West Wing crew dinner. Most obvious article of the month award goes … Continue reading
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Let’s Just Have Princeton Host The ’08 Pres Debate
First Condi, today Hillary. Tickets were gone in a flash, so roomie and I watched the former First Lady on the Princeton cable network. The topic was the Middle East (which was Ms Rice’s topic as well), and the two … Continue reading
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Mazel Tov, Josh
My favorite DC United player, Josh Gros, just re-signed with the team in a deal that triples his salary. After making a paltry $28,000 last year, DC is finally paying him a reasonable wage for the caliber of play he … Continue reading
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Spending, Tax Cuts, Balanced Budget: Choose Two
Courtesy of our Republican government, the deficit is back up in 2006. The federal budget is akin the classic MIT dilemma of of grades, sleep, and social life: choose two. State-side, score a victory for the good guys as pro-Health … Continue reading
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More negative Walmart publicity
After the largest private discrimination suit was filed against Walmart last year, and the “Two our of two ain’t bad” story, now we find out that Walmart has been linking movies such as “Planet of the Apes” to African-American themed … Continue reading
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Santa’s Runway
Christmas Eve, my father and I participated in the only “Christian” tradition our family chose to assimilate into: luminaries. I think my parents made this decision years ago to avoid seeing the following in the January Camelot Newsletter: “The streets … Continue reading
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