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Archive for October, 2009

I So Called That

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

That Letterman extortion thing was surprising. The sex scandal thing was not. I have been a life-long fan of his and I so called that he was nailing Stephanie Birkitt. I knew that in middle-school. I started reading the New York Times article and was thinking, I wonder about him and Stephanie. She often appeared [...]

Dubai

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Nobody saw a single construction crane move. In a way it was a ghost-town. The nightlife was cool. At the supermarket checkout aisle there were lighters not intended for the USA that were “KKK” brand lighters. I wore an Obama shirt and Kenyans would come up and hug me. The Burj Dubai is crazy tall, but [...]

mass email humor

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

KAUST had a plague of mass emails sent out for people who did not want to receive them after a staff member sent an email with all students’ emails in the CC line and not BCC or just using the list thingy they have. So it became pee in the pool. Some of the issues [...]