Month: October 2005

Oh, and speaking of Carnivals, The new Carnival of the Godless is up at Pinoy Atheist (Also here).My current favorite quip is mentioned there. Related posts: The Magic Ratio There is a direct and inverse squared ratio between the amount of awesome stuff one does and how many posts they put on their blog. Figure…

This makes me happy in the pants: Sales of the perennial best-selling SUV, the Ford Explorer, dropped by 58% compared with September 2004. Its larger kin, the Ford Expedition, which gets 14 mpg in city driving, saw sales drop 61%. Ford stopped producing its even larger SUV, the Excursion, last month. GM’s full-size SUVs, due…

I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship lately. Before I left New Mexico, I considered myself to have one friend and a little under 100 friendly acquaintances (and about double that of byte-sized acquaintances). Now that I’ve been here in Australia for 2 months or so, I consider myself to have 1+3+2+1+1+1+3 (12) good friends…

I’ve done and seen this before, but I never noticed how peculiar it is. Have you ever been walking down a hallway or footpath (sidewalk) and you notice someone up ahead who you recognise (it’s spelled correctly here, damn it)? The conversation usually goes something like this: 1: Hey, I haven’t seen you in ten…

Dear Readers, Writers, and Recyclers, I hope you enjoyed Labor Day. It seems less and less of us actually have a “public holiday”.But maybe that’s because the public sector keeps shrinking! Anyway, here’s issue 8.Features:Run-Down of the Tainted 2005 MUSC ElectionConception Day Review by Gabe D. BeaverMUSC, SIBT, and other Four-Letter Words There are a…

Grumble, grumble, grumble. Uni’s back today and I’m back to queueing for compies. So if I don’t update as much, you can blame that on the fact that there’s less than 50 public computers on this campus of just over 20,000 students. Grumble, grumble, grumble. (p.s. keep nominating posts! It’s the only way I’ll learn)…