Monthly Archives: September 2008

Good Will… Gathering?

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Andy

One of the best rants in movie history is, I believe, the one that Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon) lets rip on a recruiter from the NSA. Partly I love it because it’s delivered in the wonderful South Boston … Continue reading →

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Text every 9 minutes

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Andy

According to a new Nielsen poll (as found on cnet), Americans now send more text messages than make phone calls. And 13-17 year olds send 1,742 text messages a month. Assuming an eight-hour sleep cycle, that means they’re sending a … Continue reading →

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Dis connection, dat connection

Posted on September 20, 2008 by Andy

“Connect” is a big word. At my place of work, it ends up in our tagline: OCLC. The world’s libraries. Connected. From last Sunday around 4pm until Thursday around 3pm, we were disconnected by hurricane Ike. According to the weather … Continue reading →

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Things that scare me: Palin on the “Bush Doctrine.” Part 309 in a 42,006 part series

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Andy

I don’t often blog about politics here. For two reasons: I don’t know much about politics. I’m more interested in other things most days. The first reason doesn’t stop me on every other subject, and doesn’t stop everyone else on … Continue reading →

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Push polled

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Andy

So I just got push polled on the Ohio Payday Loan Referendum. Kinda hysterical, until it got to be more than 3 minutes long. Which is my personal time limit for confusing the hey-nonny-nonny out of push pollsters. I’m a … Continue reading →

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