Entries from October 2007

C’mon. It won’t hurt.

Date October 25, 2007

Listen, guys. I’m writing to encourage you all to start using Twitter. In case you don’t know what it is, it is a waste of time that takes place in a number of different places, ranging from your web browser to your cell phone to your internet-enabled refrigerator. I know it’s a stupid, pointless activity, [...]

The Next Stephen Glass

Date October 22, 2007

Someone in my class at the journalism school asked if it would be okay to have her boyfriend give her answers for the take home exam. No, really. And when she was told that no, it wouldn’t be okay to have someone else do her work for her, she was seriously upset about it. The [...]

One way to get over a crushing Redskins loss

Date October 15, 2007

Oh sweet lord. This is hilarious, especially because it features a classic Van Damme moment.Anyway, my prediction for the Skins game wasn’t way off (except for a little detail… the actual outcome). I’m disappointed in the wide receivers, who couldn’t make a play all day long. Cooley and Campbell were great, the RBs were adequate, [...]

How Online Poker is Like Quantum Mechanics

Date October 14, 2007

I was listening to this week’s Ante Up podcast, and the guys had a long argument about something that has always bugged people who play poker online: how do we know these sites aren’t screwing us over? It would be facile for a poker site to rig the deal in various ways, such that the [...]

Football predictions

Date October 13, 2007

Redskins/Packers:

Favre throws 3 interceptions, Skins recover 2 fumbles, Campbell has 1 TD and 1 interception, and the Packers lose by a field goal.

Patriots/Cowboys:

Romo stinks up the joint. Brady and Moss are awesome. The hated Cowboys lose by 24.

Video Friday

Date October 12, 2007

First, this:

Then, this:

I love techno viking.

The risks of the new music economy

Date October 9, 2007

I just preordered In Rainbows and opted to pay a total of three pounds, forty-five pence (including the sneaky credit card processing fee). I think that means I paid about seven bucks for the album, which I consider to be a fair price. But since I could have legitimately paid nothing for it (context: Radiohead [...]

Journalism reaches its acme

Date October 5, 2007

Caps’ Semin Still an Unknown Quantity

Kudos to you, unknown Washington Post editor. You made many people giggle.