tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70338162009-12-10T13:53:52.532-05:00"alright people, what are we rabbling about now?"Rubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09752538648126248698noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7033816.post-1154648245821594502006-08-03T19:18:00.000-04:002006-08-03T19:40:07.763-04:00

yeah, that's right; peanut butter. unless you live in the beautiful community of ullswater, ontario (canada), you may not be privy to the coolest game, ever. we call it "rock, paper, anything." [thank you k'firim staff]the rules are simple:at least three people need to be present to playone person must be the arbitratoreach combatant must say his/her anything and then proceed to argue why it

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another way to finish a portage?

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before we witness the removal of jerome mcelroy, aka chef, from south park tomorrow night, i thought it might be appropriate to have a brief retrospective of hiliarious-at-the-time chef quotes/moments from the show, in chronological order. perhaps we will find out where he had been hiding for seasons seven, eight, and nine, as well.cartman gets an anal probe: "that's when they put a big metal

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"hey children" no longer. the once-loved, now-gone-the-route-of-tom-cruise-crazy isaac hayes has ended his relationship with the creators of south park, matt stone and trey parker, for their realistic portrayal of his religion (read: cult), scientology, in an episode last fall. furthermore, variety.com reports that cruise, a fellow scientologist, purportedly strong-armed viacom, comedy central's

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hamas' political chief reiterated wednesday that the group would not recognize israel, and issued a strong warning to current palestinian leader mahmoud abbas to take no steps without consulting the group. [courtesy of ap through jpost.com] great idea. continue to not recognize israel's existence after it gives you millions of dollars to use at your own discretion. and while your at it, pressure/

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ok folks and a rich welcome to you. any questions before i begin nattering away for the wind is up.george: because it's all in the greeting . . . . you know a shake is badjerry: shake is bad. but what if it's the two-hander? the hand on bottom, the hand on top? the warm look in the eyes—george: the hand sandwichjerry: rightgeorge: absolu—well, i—it's open to interpretation because so much depends

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stan: dude, that isn't cool. you shouldn't joke about kenny being dead. enough time hasn't passed.cartman: so how long until we can joke about it?kyle: twenty-two point three years. that's how long it takes for something tragic to become funny.twenty-two point three years? matt stone and trey parker have since reworked this tragic-to-funny block of time to something like twenty-two point three

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walt mossberg, personal technology columnist for the wall street journal, broke the cardinal rule of internet-related journalism this morning: bad-mouthing google. in his article, mossberg criticizes the search giant'slimitations [in gmail].... on several key issues, google's engineers have decreed that familiar email practices are no longer useful, and have substituted approaches they prefer,

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while trying to find an alternative symbolic meaning of the "raven" (not poe's) in fairy tales on the internet, i stumbled upon the oedilf—omnificent english dictionary in limerick form. imagine the wiktionary, peer-edited, but with each definition in the form of a brief limerick. for example, babble:the language we think of as babbleis used by barbarian rabble.though, in truth, i am leaningto

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legion of doom creators, trey parker and matt stone renewed their contract with comedy central for three additional years. new episodes to begin october 19 (season 9.5).

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tim horton's, einstein bros. bagel, bruegger's, starbucks, cafe ambrosia, espresso royale, amer's delicatessen, rendezvous cafe and border's cafe are just a few of the local coffee joints within a three minute walk from u of m's central campus. of all these coffee outlets, only one location—tim hortons—sells doughnuts, the quintessential complement (read companion) to the black gold of college

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the american honda motor co. released a new motorcyle today, scheduled for spring 2006, equipped with an airbag. yes, you read that correctly—a motorcycle equipped with an airbag. the gold wing touring bike will have a front-impact airbag that, according to its big cheesers in tokyo, "works best in a straight-angle frontal collision up to 31 mph." wouldn't a front-end collision in a motorcycle

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what do yo-yo ma, madonna and kanye west have in common, besides an unhealthy addiction to swedish fish? each artist assisted apple's ceo steve jobs with his "special announcement" to unveil itunes 5.0, the motorola rokr (aka itunes phone) and the ipod nano. as has become my custom over the past 15 months, i will break down these new developments for you, offering (hopefully) insightful praise

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review coming soon...

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"it's like the campus came to life," said a student i passed while entering angell hall this morning. she was right. today, approximately 20,000+ students (and many profs) crossed under the dennison archway, traversed the ccrb bridge, cut over the couzen's connector, skipped down state street, hopped across church and/or mozied through ingall's mall to central campus and eventually, the diag for

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while perusing the birthday card selection at ann arbor's middle earth (not to be confused with tolkien's masterful world), i couldn't help but notice the sheer number of cards with animals, generally pets, printed on the cover. we had the usual dog-wearing-birthday-hat, kid-playing-with-dog, monkey-wearing-suit-and-tie (or diaper) and cute-kitten-playing-with-baby cards; but there was more. what

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...give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your underwear drawerin an effort to be even more environmentally friendly, patagonia has implemented a new initiative to turn old, worn out capilene® (polypropylene) into new, synthetic clothing. while some may continue to wear their ash-flying-out-of-fire-and-burning-holes-in /

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after spending a summer canoeing along (and portaging between) lakes lined with tall tamaracks, sublime pines, pristine aspens and glades of silver birches, i feel somewhat let down by the flora of metropolitan detroit (not to say that there is anything wrong with the oaks, evergreens, maples and occasional willows). it's just not the same. maybe it's the constant, visual reminder of

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don't you love those sites with odd, irreverant, thought-provoking or simpsons-based random quote generators? below is just a sampling from some of the sites i regularly visit. i know that thousands of other random quote-generated sites exist out in the blogosphere and internet-o-sphere. so, if you have a favorite, let me know. if not, maybe these will get you started...laporte

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"the town, was only five houses on the main road between boyne city and charlevoix"established in 1876, the horton bay general store continues to offer the same, idyllic, norman rockwell-esque fare that catered to the likes of ernest hemingway (whose quote from "up in michigan" appears above) in the late nineteenth century through the present. now, the store has gone 21st century with a new

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rather than jump straight back into the blogosphere, i thought it might be nice to include a poem that summarizes (to a great extent) some of my feelings concerning tripping. also, i haven't used a computer for longer than 30 minutes (total) in the past 2 months so bear with me for a few days until i get my sea-legs back (errr ... typing skills up to par)robert w. service's "song of the

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i'll be camping here,or someplace thereabouts,until mid august. (haiku)enjoy the summer.ed: this guy, curly, is a true cowboy. one of the last real men. he's untamed. next to him, we're trained ponies. It'll do us good to be in his world for a while. mitch: do us good? didn't you guys see? ... did you notice his eyes? he has crazy eyes. he's a lunatic! we are going into the wilderness being

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on one of the most important days of his (hopefully brief) political career, mayor kilpatrick made a brief appearance on espn2's cold pizza this morning, discussing the pistons' finals matchup with host dana jacobson and the mayor of san antonio, mr. ed garza. i hope kilpatrick's wager included a clause that required the city of san antonio to cover the projected shortfalls in detroit's budget if

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175 ft. of ivory colored parchment, with odd non-western characters perfectly aligned in 248 paralllel columns, wrapped around two simple, wooden spools easily carries a pricetag of $50,000+. the torah, a handwritten document that contains the five books of moses, in hebrew, can be found in nearly every jewish synagogue, temple, or house of worship around the world. oftentimes, these institutions

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steve jobs announced today, at the wwdc, that the company will begin to use intel microprocessors in 2006. i can't stand those dancing intel bunny/spacemen or the freaking intel logo on every single machine toting one of their chipsets. let's just hope that apple has created a similar contract with intel that it previously had with ibm and motorola, barring offensive logos from its products. if

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