I have atrocious handwriting. I’m right handed, but I write like a lefty, and it all just comes out bad. And it goes beyond print writing. Upon looking at my signature on an ID card, a friend of mine recently asked “were you drunk when you signed this?” It really is [...]

Posted on July 13th, 2004 by Lee
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So, as we all know by now, and as many of us anticipated, John Kerry has chosen John Edwards as his running mate. I’ll skip all the trite truisms about how this’ll bring balance to his campaign, or how it shifts the battleground states to the South, or how people may think Edwards is [...]

Posted on July 7th, 2004 by Lee
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You know your academic program is really intense when you spend over an hour of class discussing strategies to win at horseracing.
Note: I’m not about to tell you what those strategies are, but let’s just say it isn’t as difficult as you’d think to make a bit of money on the numbers, but it’s [...]

Posted on July 6th, 2004 by Lee
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So the U.S. turns 228 today. Of course, that’s pretty young by European standards, but who cares anyway. I mean, we have tradition. You know, like drinking excessively and setting off fireworks, and eating traditional 4th of July foods, like hamburgers cooked to the consistency of hockey pucks.
I mean, what can an [...]

Posted on July 4th, 2004 by Lee
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The Euro 2004 tournament is almost over now, and seeing it while in England has been quite the eye-opening experience. This article from Salon.com really explains it well:

This final may not break most-watched records, but it’s historically significant. To appreciate this significance is to instantly understand a paramount reason why soccer has yet to [...]

Posted on July 3rd, 2004 by Lee
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