Archive for February, 2006

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Thoughts on a job

So I truly feel a member of the modern age. I now have a job in Singapore, which in and of itself is not all that remarkable, but the way I acquired it is a tad interesting. I collected everything over the internet. I got letters of recommendation from Australia, Maryland (U.S.A.) and Japan, and [...]

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Monday, February 27th, 2006

On the Steve Francis to Ny trade

Can we please get Buffalo Bill from “Silence of the Lambs” to abduct Isiah Thomas and put him in a well in his basement. I honestly think that is the only way for him to stop trading for bad contracts. IT PUTS THE LOTION IN THE BASKET!!!”
Ryan, New York, NY
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/blog/index?name=simmons

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Monday, February 27th, 2006

Bike Trip: Day 26; Feb 27th. From Bahia Rosales to Esquiel

Stretch: The road from Campground Bahia Rosales in Alerces National Park to Esquiel, roughly 60 km
Day 5 of an initial 5 day run from Bariloche to Esquiel
Conditions: Good….if a bit windy. From the North park entrance to the next section of pavement is 50 km. I only had 13 km to do that morning before [...]

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Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Bike Trip: Day 25; Feb 26th.

Stretch: The road from Cholila to Campground Bahia Rosales in the National Park Alerces, 70 km
Day 4 of an Initial 5 day run from Bariloche to Esquiel
Conditions: Tough. The entire stretch is rippio, the unpaved road that ended up breaking my aluminum bike rack…I can get a custom made steel one which I really need [...]

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Friday, February 24th, 2006

Challenging Isiah for worst GM title:

Simmons: Mitch, when you took over the Lakers, you had the best two players in the league and could have won 10 straight titles with the right moves. Instead, you couldn’t get it done. Then you traded Shaq for 30 cents on the dollar; you gave cap-killing contracts to run-of-the-mill guys like Chris Mihm and [...]

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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Nervous and Excited

So I have a route, supplies and a mission…to be stupid….er…I mean to travel across vast stretches of uninhabited Patagonia and prey that the wind doesn’t knock me off my bike and leave me waterless and stranded…begging for mercy at the hands of ancient and terrible Gods of nature. On paper, the route looks fine, [...]

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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

We were the young Americans

This was just too funny….so I am hiking in the Tierra del Fuego National Park with two girls….one you could envision spending the rest of your life with….the other one…scoring close to 100 % on the Bill Simmons unintentional comedy factor, for a reference point that is what my spelling would score after you read [...]

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Omage to Owen-sama

In the land of the student, the
man who can afford to buy a drink is king…

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Monday, February 20th, 2006

So Antarctica was fun…

So there were not quite as many backpackers as originally envisioned. There were roughly 60 of us, give or take, and we stood out like sore thumbs, even when we were not attempting to generate an outfit that allowed us entrance into formal nights. Full length ball gowns and tuxedos are not really deemed essentials [...]

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Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Boat Rumors

The rumors continue to swirl and eddie, but I am going to send this out, operating on the purest level/layer of conjecture, but here goes.
So somewhere in the past, 200 people backed out of a cruise to Antarctica. Rather then leaving the boat half empty www.orientlines.com decided, in all its infinite wisdom that rather than [...]

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