Archive for October, 2004
Sunday, October 31st, 2004
Need more wonkery?
The Horserace Blog will give you fresh polling crack. It strongly suggests, quite the opposite of Slate’s meta-analysis, that the race is all but decided for Bush. Well, they can’t both be wrong! Or can they? Back in the land of non-crazy theories, Kausfiles has been outputting a steady stream of useful links and data, […]
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Sunday, October 31st, 2004
Keith Disagrees
So keith taunted me with a little e-mail about my previous post on the US election. He thinks, as he put it, that my track record of misguided election predictions will be intact. Hm. Maybe. I wrote a long note back to him, and am going to restate the least funny parts here. The presidential […]
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Sunday, October 31st, 2004
Fall Back
Not much new to report. A fairly uneventful bike ride on Saturday morning. The afternoon was occupied by a tech-support project which was inconclusive. Oh dear. The return to Standard Time today affects me quite acutely. It means more light in the mornings, which will give me a respite from the recent dark commutes to […]
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Thursday, October 28th, 2004
Blow one for the team!
Indoor soccer. Game 1 of a lunchtime doubleheader. We have a 4-goal lead with 3 minutes to play, so I sub for our goaltender, who also happens to be our top scorer. The game ended tied 5-5. D’oh! We lost the second game. I did not play goal. Last night, after I came back from […]
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
The Art of the Deal
Now listen up, because i’m about to share a bunch of really good information against my own best interests, and it will save you some money. As you might know, I’m really cheap. I like buying stuff cheaply, and I like selling stuff for more than I bought it. Sometimes being cheap just means knowing […]
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
Moonshadows and Other Things
If you are reading this, you’ve missed the lunar eclipse tonight. I got home, ate some lasagna (which I later found out was vegetarian. Soylent lasagna is green!), and did a rudimentary bike tire change, which seemed to go well. The new Park tire levers worked, which is good. I would recommend them over any […]
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
Christopher Hitchens is Confusing Everyone
Slate reprised its refreshingly honest Slate Votes feature, and to the surprise of some, Christopher Hitchens cast his vote for Kerry. Now, anyone reading Hitchens lately knows that he is one of the strongest proponents of the Iraq War anywhere, and that he has repeatedly stated his case for it. In other words, even though […]
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
A potpourri of updates
The Tafelmusik concert was lovely. They’re a really great bunch of musicians, and played some nice music. The last thing they played was a long Telemann work, and it wasn’t to my taste. But everything else was pure period-instrument gold. The cat has been remarkably good-natured about the whole stabbed-with-needles experience. I pet it, I […]
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
Bigger than Opera
But never mind about the Opera, the really big news on Thursday night was the display in the lobby of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, explaining their massive renovation plans. Good. The QE is a big nasty barn, somewhat pretty to look at from the outside, but ridden with hordes of distant or off-angle seats, and […]
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
A Night at the Opera
The opera du jour at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre was Der Rosenkavalier, a nice, amusing 270-minute comic opera in German. Richard Strauss, written in 1911, but set (with anachronisms) in 18th century Vienna. The Lovely One wanted to go, and a 2-fer coupon got us there. Because of the terms of the coupon, we had […]