Archive for December, 2006
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Last fall, a group called Campus Movie Fest came to Stanford. The task was to give each group a camera, a laptop, and a week to film a five minute film. The short films would then be entered into a campus competition, with the winners moving on to ...
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
For Christmas, my parent's, err...Santa, always gets us some random gift. This year was no exception, as I was given "From Clueless to Class Act: Manners for the Modern Man." It wasn't that bad a gift - there's useful instructions about how to properly set your table or ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
When I first heard about Time magazine naming the person of the year, You, it was on a clip from Jon Steward's Daily Show. Called "Newsweak," Stewart appropriately pointed out how silly it was for Time to consider "You" as the person of the year. Are we so stupid to ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
When I found out that it was a gentleman named Carson Williams who had created the amazing Xmas lights display that was Break.com's #4 video for 2006, I was curious if he had made one for this holiday. I was not surprised to find that he had. Here he is ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
There were two deer running around my backyard a yesterday. Here's photographic proof. Regardless of these pictures, I want to emphasize to my Stanford friends that I do not live on a farm! Of course, I didn't get to close to them, since deer can be pretty vicious, ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Here's one of the most elaborate Christmas lights display I have ever seen. I'm not sure if it tops the Trans-Siberian Orchestra light show put on last year, but it sure comes close. Check it out:Here's last year's video, which was used later used for a Miller Light ...
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Monday, December 25th, 2006
I was clicking the "Next Blog" button on the top of my Nav bar when I came across this blog:http://butchdingo.blogspot.com/Affectionately called "My Blog Rules Your Ass!" Butch has consistently posted some hilarious pictures. So in the spirit of Christmas, here's Santa!
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Monday, December 25th, 2006
Happy holidays to you all, regardless of what holiday you celebrate.I had a nice, relaxing Christmas. Cooked yakisoba noodles for lunch. I made off with some nice gifts:I had asked for this "Dating for Dummies" guide not because of a struggling love life, but because I post each ...
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Monday, December 25th, 2006
On Christmas Eve, while the Eastern half of the United States was sleeping and many in the Midwest were attending midnight mass, the Hawaii Warriors were beating the Arizona State Wildcats senseless in the Hawaii Bowl. Colt Brennan, the Warriors QB, demolished the previous NCAA single-season touchdown record of 54 ...
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
A big historical mystery has been solved- Freud did have an affair with his wife's younger sister, Minna Bernays. It was reported in the New York Times on Christmas Eve. Franz Maciejewski, a sociologist formerly at the University of Heidelberg, tracked down a leather-bound ledger that shows ...
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