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Tuesday, Jun 04, 2002

kickstart

my sister sent me a mattel classic football. and while growing up i had mattel basketball and mattel soccer, it was my duty to inform her that we had coleco electronic quarterback and not the mattel version. the coleco was and is superior because it had blockers and a passing option. whats football without passing. and, of course, when you scored a touchdown it would play the song Onward To Victory. i guess it was the notre dame victory march.

and dont forget to wake up tonight at 5am for the us vs portugal. im guessing theres a 25% chance i will. ive seen some of the 2:30am games and some of the 7:30am games but the 5am game is by far the most difficult to manage.

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heavenly creatures

"The pursuit of that ancient heavenly connection has lately moved near center stage at NASA, which assembled some 100 astronomers, physicists, chemists, geologists and even a few biologists at the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University campus recently to talk about extraterrestrial life."

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apartment hunting


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Monday, Jun 03, 2002

dressed to the 10s


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golden goal

"Standing-room-only crowds -- at times more than 300 people -- have been flocking to Summers about 1:30 every morning since the World Cup started Friday, 13 time zones away in Seoul. They flip-flopped their circadian rhythms, setting alarms on wristwatches and radio clocks for a punishing nocturnal schedule just to see every kick, every penalty, every header in real time."

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m&ms

anybody notice an upsurge of classic micro/minicars on the streets of new york?

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eros and psyche

"GEOFFREY MILLER: My goal at this point really is to take evolutionary psychology the next step, and to apply standard of evolutionary theory as much as possible to explain the whole gamut of the human mind, human emotions, human social life, human sexual behavior as much as possible. I'm especially interested in looking at areas that have been relatively ignored or overlooked in the standard evolutionary psychology so far. For example, in Steve Pinker's book How the Mind Works there's a very good discussion of vision, memory, emotions,-but some of the most interesting aspects of the human mind, such as art, music, humor and religion tend to get relatively slighted, and it's apparent that we don't have very good explanations of them yet. I'm very interested in applying sexual selection ideas to explain some of those areas, but I'm quite open to any new ideas that come along that take seriously those aspects of human nature that have not been taken seriously before."

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flower power


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Sunday, Jun 02, 2002

kelp on the way


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Saturday, Jun 01, 2002

show me the funny

harry shearers "Le Show"

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