August 2005

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• holydays

  3108

  08.31.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  I honestly don’t read many blogs - severe lack of time being the primary reason. Hence, my blogroll remains stagnant unless one of my gentle readers comments and leads me back to their house. So, for Blog Day, I decided to highlight some blogs that I only get to read now and then but which [...]

• univerCity

  Of Dice and Men

  08.30.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  This falls squarely in the well-established tradition, here at CM, of wasting time. Raven’s post on Ludo [which you should also go read] made me really curious about the history of this board game most Americans know as Parcheesi.
  The game has many names: Pachisi or Chaupar being the ancient Indian/ medieval Mughal names [there [...]

• wizbango! tech

  upgrade downgrade

  08.29.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Just upgraded to MT 3.2 and took out MTBlacklist. Not sure if either are wise decisions in this day and age.
  You may have to re-authenticate to comment.

• optical character recognition

  Sunday Reading for Dog Days

  08.28.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Saw the 40 year old Virgin recently. Best abstinence propoganda ever made [only if the Xtian Right can overlook the nudity, insanely hilarious bad language and winking adoration of gays]. No reviews I read had pointed out the two desi scene-stealers [Shelly Malil and the awesome Gerry Bednob] who were like the anti-matter to Wes [...]

• imperial watch

  Dear Mr. Brooks

  08.25.05 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  In your 8/25 column, Divided They Stand, you conclude:
  But when you get Galbraith and Gerecht in the same mood, you know something important has happened. The U.S. has orchestrated a document that is organically Iraqi.
  It’s their country, after all.
  However in your entire piece there is not a single quote from any actual Iraqi who may [...]

• univerCity

  Teaching Bytes

  08.24.05 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  The air recently has that tinge of cold which I have dreaded my entire life. It means that school will soon start. Here at Chicago, we do not start until late, late September but a lot of places should already have begun the 05-06 school year. Shudder. I am not teaching this coming quarter but [...]