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4+ months of school

Posted by tommy on December 8th, 2005

Somehow my last post on school was entitled “Midterms and my impressions of school so far” or something like that. It seems like a long time ago. I will post a summary of my first full semester once finals are over next week. In the meantime, all I can say is that group […]

How-To… grow corn?

Posted by tommy on December 4th, 2005

I use the google personalized homepage occasionally, and one of my tabs is “How-to of the day”. One of the how-tos listed today struck me as sort of odd:
How to Become a Farmer Without Experience

Perhaps the most useful tip:
“You may need to relocate. Some regions of the country are more conducive to farming […]

State of the state we live in.

Posted by tommy on November 9th, 2005

Once again, I’m embarrassed to reside in the state of California. As if there weren’t enough things happening in this state to make you want to move (ie Hollywood, San Francisco, etc), yesterday’s statewide ballot initiatives were all defeated. Granted, some of them were stupid and deserved to be defeated… but where […]

Reasons not to watch the world series

Posted by tommy on October 22nd, 2005

Being a cubs fan, I don’t really need any more reasons not to watch this waste of a world series. But for the rest of you, here are more reasons not to watch:
1) local fox station’s pre-game show
2) jeannie whatshername doing pre-game interviews
3) that unbelievably stupid dramatic opening to the series that fox feels […]

Arrested Development - Season Two

Posted by tommy on October 11th, 2005

Season 2 of one of the greatest shows on TV comes out on DVD today! I am tempted to Buy it now at amazon but a little birdie suggested that I save my money… the same little birdie delivered season 1 on DVD last year
I’m glad Fox didn’t cancel it, even though […]