Necessary Roughness

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Blogroll Update
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

I redid the UAC portion of the Blogroll over lunch, adding some new blogs and splitting them out between “rostered” and “unrostered”. Rostered denotes pastors, vicars, seminarians, deaconesses, and teachers. Multi-person blogs are marked as rostered only if every contributer is rostered. If your blog is in the wrong category, send me an email. I’ve [...]

Eighth out of Nine Hundred
Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

I signed up to my first Full Tilt Poker freeroll (no money invested) tournament at taynar’s invitation. 900 people enrolled at 1:30am EDT. The top four places paid real money. My last hand was about 5:52am EDT. Only 3:52am mountain time. Heh.
So I played until the final two tables, and I had a decent chip [...]

A Discontinuous Function
Monday, May 9th, 2005

If you appreciated my simple math skills applied to software development you’ll appreciate Northwestern University’s Finite Simple Group (of Order Two), performed by The Klein Four Group. You may need my Latin book report for the last phrase.
(Hat tip: John Derbyshire at National Review Online)

Find the Gillette Rep In Your Wal-Mart
Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

During lunch I visited the Kilgore Wal-Mart to pick up some razor blades. A nice smiling lady with a Gillette name badge saw me looking at the Mach3 section.

Come to Bury, Not to Praise
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

“One can be sorry that Hunter Thompson died as he did, but not sorry, surely, that he stopped writing.”
— William F. Buckley, Jr., Death of a Comic

Who is Scott Lindlaw's editor?
Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

In this article on myway.com, the final paragraph reads thus:
Some conservatives also have quietly questioned Gonzales’ credentials on core social issues. And he once was a partner in a Houston law firm which represented the scandal-ridden energy giant Enron.
Someone got a heck of a return on their investment for their journalism degree, huh?

National Lampoon's MoveOnPlease.org
Saturday, August 28th, 2004

One of the LiveJournal conservative communities posted a link to MoveOnPlease.org, a National Lampoon website that takes MoveOn.org and Michael Moore to task. Among the funnier things:
Air America: the fun is trying to find us.
Everything Bad Fault of Rumsfeld
and my favorite:
“IF GEORGE BUSH IS RE-ELECTED I’M LEAVING THE COUNTRY” SOUND FAMILIAR? JUSTIN CASE LIBERAL TRAVEL [...]

Silly wabbits
Friday, August 27th, 2004

Got a little bit more gristle this week from the Standard/Advocate’s opinion page (link dead).
File this under “not having an opinion while needing something to say.” A (co-opted? / copied? / borrowed?) editorial (link dead) from the Post-Standard, Syracuse, N.Y., regarding the newly enacted overtime legislation, offers this gem of advice regarding the new overtime [...]

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