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2/22/02 act now and earn the right

Tonight I pledged to invest $100 in the Montreal Expos if my future co-owners can scrape $100 million together to buy the team. Hell, why not? It’s a small price to pay to be in the exclusive fraternity of major league baseball owners. Sign yourself up for any amount—be a part of history! Via Alan [...]

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Filed under General, Life on February 22, 2002, 'act now and earn the right' has comments numbering merely 0.
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2/15/02 something new for me to deal with

Metacritic looks like a great movie review site; it compiles movie reviews from around the web and “averages” them. It’s even named accurately, since its average score for a movie is weighted based on how much they like the critic (implicitly criticizing the critics)….

By the way, there’s something new for me to deal with: “Rejecting [...]

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Filed under General on February 15, 2002, 'something new for me to deal with' has comments numbering merely 0.
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2/13/02 extra pizzas

The previous entry is a weird place to keep you hanging. I ordered pizza for the meeting. It was fine, except 7 of the 20 pizzas I ordered didn’t get touched (I counted on the estimates of my more-experienced colleagues), so we donated them to the homeless shelter across the street.
Still haven’t been getting sleep, [...]

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Filed under General on February 13, 2002, 'extra pizzas' has comments numbering merely 0.
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2/5/02 get some sleep

Crap, just remembered I volunteered to get food for today’s MAPE local meeting. And I’m the new president, for some God-forsaken reason, so I have to run the damn thing. I’d better get some sleep.

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Filed under General on February 5, 2002, 'get some sleep' has comments numbering merely 0.
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2/4/02 Cops and Breeders

I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned this yet.
My absolute favorite show on the radio is This American Life, hosted and produced by Ira Glass since 1995. It is what it says it is—people talking about life in this country—and defies further description, as their website acknowledges:
One of the problems with our show from the start [...]

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Filed under General on February 4, 2002, 'Cops and Breeders' has comments numbering merely 0.
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