Category: The Gambit
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baby you can\’t drive your pickup
between my (typically) liberal mindset and my liberal arts education background, i am incredibly hesitant to stereotype anyone. i feel it\’s incredibly short-sighted to try to pigeonhole someone into expected behaviors based on race, religion, or creed. (i don\’t know what the hell \”creed\” means, it just seemed to flow there.) i work extremely hard…
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Phooey. Rhymes with Bowie.
Former commissioner of baseball Bowie Kuhn passed away yesterday, at the age of 80. I\’ll be honest, I don\’t really remember the man. After all, his tenure ended in 1984, when I was the ripe old age of nine, and who besides Wade A pays attention to such things at a young age? I do…
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stacked deck
back in 1987, a company called Forethought released version 1.0 of an application called PowerPoint. later that year, an outfit called Microsoft (you may have heard of them) purchased Forethought and, eventually, began including PowerPoint in its Office software bundle. while i can only speak to experience in my current and previous employers, i believe…
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What\’s so funny?
Interesting article in the New York Times recently. See, this is the kind of psych that interested me when I was studying it. Apparently if you\’re not a professional comedian, you\’re only as funny as you are powerful. Or if you want to flip that around, it would seem that if you perceive yourself as…
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hello cleveland!
while i certainly don\’t keep my fingers on the pulse of popular music like i once did, i\’m a little surprised that i totally missed this. for those of you non-clickers, it\’s a story about the 2007 rock and roll hall of fame inductees. this year\’s honorees include R.E.M. and Van Halen. the former reunited…
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Talkin\’ \’bout the weather
It\’s so Minnesotan, isn\’t it? Well hell, it is Monday after all. Still, it was so nice to walk out to my car this morning and not shiver. It was nice to have dew on the windows instead of frost or ice. It was nice to have my windows intact. Heh. In any case, it…
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ice / fish
a co-worker of mine just left, heading out for a long weekend. he\’s taking off this evening for lake of the woods on the minnesota / canada border, and will spend the subsequent three days ice fishing. and i\’m incredibly jealous. this will be the first year since 2001 that i won\’t be making a…
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In the Links
Just a few quick jottings culled from the internet tubes today: There are times when I hate my job. And then there are times when I realize that things could be a lot worse. For example, I could be the person tasked to deal with this. So you\’re saying CBS turned your son gay, ma\’am?…
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you got peanut butter in my chocolate!
while poring over copious data points in preparation for this year\’s fantasy baseball draft, i came across a couple names that i don\’t hear much anymore. dustan mohr. bobby kielty. the former is now a backup outfielder for the tampa bay devil rays, his fifth team in five years. the latter, a backup outfielder for…
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This is Monday\’s Gambit
Apologies for the extreme lateness of this posting. Or, you could look on the bright side and realize that when Wade posts his normal Gambit that you\’ll get a double dose of goodness. I\’m such an optimist. But so yes, this is Monday\’s Gambit. This would not have been Monday\’s topic, had things been normal,…