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AT LAST!
Pigs can fly, hell is frozen, the slipper finally fits,
and Impossible Dreams really can come true.
RedSox win the world Series
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It's finally happened for the long-lowly Boston Red Sox -- the Curse of the Bambino has been broken. And not just broken -- battered, crushed, you name it. The BoSox tonight completed their World Series sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals, taking the fourth and deciding game by a score of 3-0. The last time the Red Sox won the Series was in 1918, with the help of the legendary Babe Ruth -- "The Bambino." Soon after that, Ruth was traded to the archrival New York Yankees, and while the Yanks thrived, the BoSox tanked. Until this miraculous year.

With his history of homophobia and his long-running beef with MoveOn supporter Moby, Eminem is an even less likely lefty hero than Howard Stern. But the just-released video for his new anti-Bush song "Mosh," makes "Fahrenheit 9/11" look like a GOP campaign spot, and it will almost certainly reach an audience that wouldn't think of shelling out for a documentary. -- Salon.com

Anyone else a little surprised at this? I for one certainly am. To see the video for yourself, go here

I'm sure some of you checked amazon today to order or think abotu ordering a book/other-item from them today and you probably went directly to www.amazon.com in the process. Imagine my surprise when I went there and found the following item displayed on the top of the page.

Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator
Introducing the first defibrillator available for use in the home without a prescription. Be prepared for sudden cardiac arrest with the easy-to-use, audio-guided Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator, available now. link

As a dedicated member of an EMS organization I went and checked it oud and found the follwoing review:
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24 of 63 people found the following review helpful:
5 out of 5 stars Still Alive - Enough Said!, October 25, 2004
Reviewer: John Doe (St Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
Sausage Gravy Lard Balls are a Thanksgiving Tradition in my family. A tradition that almost proved fatal last year! Philips HeartStart Home Automated External Defibrillator (AED) was a real life saver after my heart rejected the pork laden calorie balls! Thank you Philips...and thank you Grandma! Your quick reflexes combined with the ease and power of the Philips HeartStart Home Automated External Defibrillator gave me something to truly be thankful for!
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I am not sure whether to laugh or be angry or just be plain old confused. Im leaning more and more towards the 'laugh my ass off' option. You should check out some of the other reviews that this guy wrote :-)

Articles

And I give you snipits from different articles around the internet about last nights game, which you doubtless have already heard/read, but hey this is my soapbox so I will say whatever-the-fuck I want

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So, raise a pint at the Cask and Flagon, buy a round at "Cheers'' and tap the keg at the Kennedy compound. Or, as Tim Wakefield shouted during the Red Sox celebration, "Break out the defibrillators!'' The Red Sox are going to the World Series for the first time in 18 years and the Yankees are going golfing. After the National League series ends tonight, the World Series opens Saturday at Fenway Park and the unveiling of the David Ortiz statue will follow in the public garden.
ESPN

There is no torture this time, no hour of humiliation. Better yet for Boston fans, it's the Yankees who are left to suffer the memory of a historic collapse.
SI

Red Sox fans now have a stock answer for those clever chants of ''1918." They'll always be able to cite the fall of 2004 when the Big Apple was finally and firmly lodged in the throats of men wearing pinstripes. This time, it was the gluttonous Yankees who choked.
boston.com

That is all. Going back to Boston tonight or early tomorrow morning and no the outcome of the game had absolutly nothing to do with it...remember theres another sporting event in boston this weekend HoCR

Pages recieved:

(1)
From: Name Removed
Txt: RED SOX WIN!!!!
Time now: 0003

(2)
From: Name Removed
Txt: Community General is now off divert, and the RED SOX SHOULD ROT IN HELL (0007)
Time now: 0007

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comments: Gotta love professionalism. Although I must admit I was expecting a few more pages in this nature than the two that were recieved... oh well This I believe will be saved for the WS.

Gucci

In an effort to branch out to more topics, I give youthe following excerpt frpm Gawker

Former Gucci designer Tom Ford says he went through "sort of a depression" when he left the design house after working there for 14 years. But that's not why he's already designing his own tomb.

"I drank through the whole thing. Maybe I was a bad boss. I think I was a good boss."

And there you have it. I wonder if my department would consider sponsoring a 'hapy hour'activity. I'm sure it would bring us students and the faculty we love to hate closer together...Faegans perhaps?

< a href="http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ph9czeqreIoJ:broaderminds.com/Profiles/Syracuse_u./reviews/997076199881.jsp+Faegans+Syracuse&hl=en">Review
Lastly on the Hill, there is Faegans - predominantly a "senior bar" - basically if you're not actually 21, you don't go there. It's nice, drinks are a bit more expensive. They have food (it's also a restaurant). Very chill, more mature atmosphere.

Note: Yes I realize that is a cached version of the page, I couldn't find an active one anywhere else

True confessions

I have a true confession to make folks. I get up every morning worried that I am about to get an email from the DoD announcing that two of my friends have been killed in Iraq. A few years when I needed some data to analyze, I signed up for 3 DoD mailing lists (Not sure that they are open subscribe any more). Recently these lists haven’t been sending out the same messages that I was used to (by recently I mean since ‘operation Iraqi Freedom began’) and instead have been sending out the announcements of soldiers killed as well as blurbs about each soldier.

I know that my fear is potentially irrational seeing as how there are a huge number of people in Iraq now, but its an email I will continue to dread getting. I heard from two of the people recently and made them promise to send me email every once in a while.

Its time for a drink now.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you a freakshop of a building worthy of being on the Jetsons or something out of the OuterLimits or insert your favorite f'ed up show here

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which was designed by Philippe Starck

Highly appropriate seeing as over the past 2 nights ive bought a tad over $350 dollars wirth of booze. Take the test and see who you happen to be

Its official. I will now be in boston on the 23-24 (well technically its going to be the 22-24, but who is counting. Ill be working the event, but because some family friends run it I won't be working all that hard. 2 days, hundred of athletes, crowds numbering in the hundred of thousands and the best darn city on the face of the east coast, it dosn't get much better than this.

btw, im getting a new pair of shoes that weekend as well. :-)

The sky is low, the clouds are mean.
A traveling flake of snow
Across the barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem
--Emily Dickenson

Yesterday Today Tomorrow

this has been floating around the internet on a lot of different blogs, so I thought I might as well fill it in.

10 years ago today, I..

1. Would have been 14
2. began to think about where to go to highschool
3. working as a camp counselor

5 years ago today, I...

1. would have been in a car accident
2. hated the courses I was taking and thought about changing majors
3. royally fucked up a relationship I was in.

3 years ago today, I...

1. couldn't get a job so I decided to stay in school and get a Masters
2. found out one of my friends died from an overdose. (it was sometime in the fall anyway)
3. was taking literature courses at Harvard

1 year ago today, I...

1. started eating sushi/korean/indian food (previously I ate only english/french/american food)
2. fell completely head over heels for someone (didn't work out)
3. figured that if I were ever to move out of this country, it would be either to Iceland or France.

So far this year, I...

1. found out a lot of my friends are getting married/engaged
2. learned how to install a hardwood floor
3. have moved 4 times (syracuse->concord, concord->holderness, holderness-> concord, concord->syracuse) And when I say moved I mean my Jimmy has been completely full and I have stayed at each location for more than a month.

Yesterday, I...

1. backboarded and collared a patient
2. found out that
3. watched our football team loose (again)

Today, I...

1. woke up to a voicemail from a person I used to to running with.
2. spent almost all of the morning wearing slippers :-)
3. will go to the supermarket

Tomorrow, I...

1. will apply for some more jobs which will probably not accept me.
2. will pay my credit card bill.
3. will get a new book from the bookstore.
4. will bother to actually spell check this entry

I think that they really need to make a liter or 2 liter bottle of RedBull. I go through those dinky 8.3oz cans faster than a chain smoker goes through a pack of cigarettes at a party.

In a misguided attempt to relieve some of the back pain I have been suffering from lately I made an appointment with the Health Center this morning. After being seen 20 minutes later than I was supposed to be (fuckers I could have had a better lunch with that time) I saw a nurse. Armed with a rather long list of painkillers I am not allowed to have I hoped for some relief. I got a prescription for Flexeril. One comment. Do not drive while taking this stuff. I waited till classes were done and I took one. It was like BAM instant (or near) instant coma for 2 ½ hours. It helped with the pain for about 2 before it came roaring back with a vengeance.

hoping for something stronger when I return. (just as long as it isn't one of the following)
(1) Vicodin
(2) Codeine
(3) Morphine
(4) Demoral
(5) Percodan

Team America I wasn't planning on seeint his movie, however after reading the following review on BoingBoing I now have to go see it.

My favorite quote out of the review:
There are many moments of blow-soda-through-your-nose comedic brilliance. North Korea's megalomaniac dictator sings a reflective, autobiographical ballad. Housecats posing as rabid panthers maul celebrity peaceniks. Matt Damon's puppet doppelganger cameos as a "Timmy"-esque halfwit whose vocabulary consists entirely of his own name. A computer intelligence network touted as the world's most sophisticated -- and appropriately named I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E -- speaks in a stoned surfer drawl. If Oscars were awarded for moments of cinematic vomit excellence, The Exorcist would have won 30 years ago; one scene in Team America would make it a shoo-in today. And an explicit marionette sex scene manages to cram in such a dizzying array of positions -- from reverse cowgirl to rimming -- you'll need a copy of the Puppet Sutra just to keep up.

Cleaning

My major project this weekend (aside from 675 and 657) was to clean out my life. I went through my email archives deleating all of this crap that I didn't need any more. I also went through my AIM accounts and removed people I havn't seen online in months.

The major thing that was included in this was the going through the blogs I read on a frequent basis. For some reason I hadn't gone through this list in a long time and it was sort of sad to see how many had gone by the wayside. One of the upsides of this has been the fact tha I keep a small text file with clipping of funny sayings that people have made. I give you the following one:

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Mark the gay airline attendent said "The Captain has asked me to announce that we'll be landing shortly, lovely people, so if you could just put up your trays that would be super."

He noticed that a well-dressed rather exotic looking woman hadn't moved a muscle.

"Perhaps you didn't hear me over those big brute engines. I asked you to raise your tray so the main man can land."

She calmly turned her head and said, "In my country, I am called a Princess. I take orders from no one."

To which the flight attendant replied, without missing a beat, 'Well, sweet-cheeks, in my country, I'm called a Queen, so I out rank you. Tray-up bitch."