PaulThology

I haven’t blogged in almost a year, but just may have found what I think to be the best business model I didn’t think of that will make a ton of money and piss people off and then go away like a lot of internet businesses do. The owners are mysterious, their WHOIS of course […]

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Many reappearing movie clichés annoy me, and I would not mind if they never showed up again. Today’s four:

Gunshot wounds that physically drive people backward as if they’d just been tackled by a linebacker
Urban homes/apartments that can easily be broken in to, and never have alarms
Answering machines
Lazy security camera watchmen

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Have you ever been involved in a lengthy two-sided tit-for-tat email conversation, being CC’ed but never included?
That’s how I’ve felt this week with the back-and-forth between Don Imus and the Rutgers women’s basketball team. Like the Rosie O’Donnell-Donald Trump thing. Like the Anna Nicole Smith “who’s the dad” ‘news.’
While you could argue the […]

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Today a promotion by a local radio station to allow kids in free to Six Flags Over Georgia theme park between 6 and 9 am went awry. The typical fee for entry is $30, so a parent of three could save $90, and get rid of their kids for a day, and judging from […]

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Feel like your collegiate alma mater is always whining for more money? Mine (U. Minnesota, U. Georgia) sure are.
I’ve always felt like the gift I gave to my universities was by attending, and paying full price for the education. But they think I still owe them something, or at least their alumni donor […]

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For some strange reason I’ve had trouble convincing some of my acquaintances in the South that “Palmetto bugs” or “Waterbugs” are really cockroaches. “Waterbugs” like water, but cockroaches like food” is one argument I hear, always attempting to withhold my laughter, as if ANY creature could live on water alone.
So I’ve come up with […]

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A few months ago I watched a UC-Berkeley professor lecture about Web Spam on Google Video (prior the purchase of YouTube). Since I use Deepnet Explorer’s Keyword specific RSS searches for Feedster and Moreover-syndicated content, Web Spam is extremely annoying.
I began using an RSS Newsreader because for both personal and professional reasons, as I need […]

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Today’s deep thought
If I were to judge the 230-year development/progress of our “democracy” (or “constitutional republic” as some will argue…so let’s just settle on “nation” then) by the quality of the TV and radio campaign ads aired during elections these days, I’d say:
“I’m not sure we’re mentally competent enough to be considered first-world. Hearing […]

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I can’t believe the President was able to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision that military tribunals were unconstitutional, getting his fear-mongering Senate cronies to pass SB 3930, which establishes Military “Commissions.”
From my understanding, three important rights established under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions do NOT apply to those who are […]

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Big ‘Ole Sports Media has a problem. They still think they have to uphold some standards that nobody else cares about, the same standards that might be writing their epitaph. If they keep getting rid of each commentator for enlivening the broadcast with some of their personality, we’ll all be tuning out the audio portion […]

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