[Author's note: this entry was copied from my blog (http://asuums.blogspot.com/). I encourage you all to check it out!]Right now, I'm watching the NCAA men's basketball tournament - specifically the game between Xavier and West Virginia - at US Airways Center in downtown Phoenix. And while I know it's a shame that both the men's and ladies' Sun ( Read more... )

Ten Things You Never Knew about George Washington, born on this day in 1732:

1. His dentures carved from a hippopotamus tusk. They were drilled with a hole to fit over Washington's one remaining tooth, and they rubbed against his natural tooth in such a way that Washington was in constant pain, and so he used an alcoholic solution infused with opium ( Read more... )

For those interested in Garrison Keillor's "The News from Lake Wobegon" from A Prairie Home Companion, here is a podcast feed of all of the week's news.

Enjoy!

EJ (paukenschlag)

Today, 15 February 2008, has been a strange day. I have seen the following ( Read more... )

I found a list of identification criteria for music geeks. Anything I've boldfaced is because I've done it/identified with it. Appropriate comments are italicized. Feel free to do the same to you and see how you fare.

( You might be a Music Geek if... )

So I was doing some thinking about the UofA/Oregon football game, and I've found that for any Arizona sports team (professional or collegiate) save for the Phoenix Suns, it's never that our team (the Arizona team, that is) won, it's that the visiting team lost. But conversely, when an Arizona team loses, then we get pegged as being the "losing ( Read more... )

I was bored, and so I played JezzBall (old Windows 3.1 game - originally from the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack released in 1995).

( New high score: 61,941 )

My hobby:


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To make a long story short, my computer is fine. The docking station I use for my computer so I don't have to plug in everything time and time again is faulty.

Weird.

EJ (paukenschlag)

So I was checking the weather of the places where my HS friends are now at college. Usually the trend is Phoenix's temperature > Tucson > ... > Flagstaff; however, this was different:


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