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Marquette Gold?!?!

May 4th, 2005 · No Comments

WTF? This just shows how lame Marquette is. There is nothing like striking fear into your opponants with your nickname. Gold? Go Gold? How lame. Warriors was definately the way to go, but if the board didn’t want it, why not stick with Golden Eagles?
Go PANTHERS!!!

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Comment Spam

April 29th, 2005 · No Comments

There is nothing like deleting an entire article before posting :/
So what is the point of comment spam anymore? Why post links to websites that don’t exist, or post jibberish text to a weblog? Even if you are posting legit links, who is going to click on them? Ever since WordPress started using the nofollow [...]

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$2.39 a gallon

March 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Gas in Wisconsin has risen about $0.60 a gallon this year and now stands at $2.39 (that is less then $0.10 cheaper then Los Angeles according to www.gaspricewatch.com). Starting on April 1, the Wisconsin gas tax will rise to 29.9 cents per gallon, a new state record (and since we are the highest taxed state [...]

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The Saga Continues…

March 23rd, 2005 · 1 Comment

Well, Northwest Airlines kept bumping me back in the On-Call list, so I cancelled my flight today and rescheduled it for Friday morning. I also bumped back my return flight from Sunday until Tuesday, so my trip will be the same length. To do this, I had to take an extra day off of work [...]

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Best. Vacation. Ever.

March 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

Well, it is almost 9 hours from when I was supposed to leave Milwaukee, but I am still here. My original flight was delayed 5 times, and then cancelled at about 1:30 PM this afternoon. Since then, I waited on standby for a 2:40 flight…. Still in Milwaukee…. Next up, at 4:30 flight, which is [...]

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Airport Woes

March 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

So my flight to Seattle was to leave Milwaukee at 6:25 AM this morning. After taxiing about the runway, we suddenly find the plane parked at the gate from whence we just departed. The pilot comes on the PA system and says that the “Check Engine” light came on and that service technicians were currently [...]

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Only In America

February 14th, 2005 · No Comments

This is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard of. Public Park Designated Copyrighted Space
I’m glad that I live close to Chicago so that I can go take some pictures of that thing.
Here is a list of other places/objects you can’t take pictures of.
This Post is copyrighted and may not be read by [...]

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