Posts from August, 2001
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Aug1It was nice working with you
Yesterday must have been the strangest day I have ever had at work. There was a time, not too long ago, when the company I work for had offices in Austin, Chicago, and London. It seemed like we would actually be a true international company in the coming months. Times were getting tougher for other [...]
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Aug1Taking Back Kentucky, the Bohemian Index, and The Faint
I was riding my bike around the neighborhood on Sunday and spotted a car with an “I Brake for Snakes” sticker on it. Under the pronouncement it said ‘Slade, Kentucky’. The sticker is for The Kentucky Reptile Zoo which is located near the fabled Red River Gorge.I then remembered that the car belongs to former [...]
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Aug1A Jerusalem Journal (continued)
By Michael Lewyn Visited Yad Vashem- only real disappointment of trip. Thought we would see full museum; instead just listened to boring speech by Israeli ambassador to Poland, and had brief service in Hall of Remembrance (dark room with names of death camps on it). Walked briefly through the sculpture garden. Then we had lunch [...]
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Aug0Tits Equals Hits
It seems like the impact of The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is just now starting to be felt. The legislation ended 62 years of reasonable regulation by the federal government’s communications arm, the FCC, and was originally intended to increase competition on the airwaves, among other things. All you have to do is turn on [...]
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Aug0I think I’m a square
Five-year-old Lotte Pickard loves her pink fishnet stockings her strappy sandals, which she says, are sexy. “I like to look sexy,” the little girl explains. Disturbed yet? Recently reports have been turning up about frustrated parents, who are trying to buy clothes for their pre-teens. But they are having a tough time because it seems [...]
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