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On the eve of embarking for Ft. Lauderdale, FL for the January 4th Orange Bowl, I’ve been reminiscing about some of my childhood vacations to Disney World and some of the places we stayed on those vacations.  For instance, in November 1992, our family stayed at a Comfort Suites, just outside of what would later become Celebration, FL: It’s hard to believe that these pictures were taken nearly

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We still have roughly 2 more weeks until Christmas, but I’ve already had Pandora on the Christmas station since the drive home for Thanksgiving.  After having listened to countless hours of Christmas carols, at random, over the last few weeks, I’ve decided to compile a list of random thoughts I’ve had and revelations I’ve reached in the process. Most Likely to be Played by Pandora Rudolph the

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While last night’s 49-23 beatdown at the hands of the lately irrelevant Syracuse Orange is still fresh in my mind, I thought I would right down a few thoughts: I strongly feel that this game was the culmination of weeks of West Virginia frustration.  It seems like this was the perfect meltdown to conclude the weeks of speculation in the conference realignment situation. One day, we are in the

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My thoughts on the potential of the rumors of WVU to the SEC can be summed up in a single image, inspired by my affinity for the TV show The X-Files. 

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After ACC Poached Pitt And Syracuse, Big East Football May Be Dead Loss of T.C.U. Leaves the Big East’s Football Future in Doubt Army Not Interested in Big East Navy AD Chet Gladchuk on TCU news: Big East needs to ‘figure out how to right the ship’

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In a blog post about 6 months ago, I wrote about the inspiration for the location of the Château du Mal Voisin from the 1980 Peanuts movie “Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back).”  With most of my “filming location” posts, I like to go into more detail and include more than just one or two scenes.  However, at the time, I was limited in that Google Street View went no where near the

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With the news of College GameDay coming to Morgantown, WV for next Saturday’s matchup between #16 West Virginia and #2 LSU, I thought I would take a moment to examine the best and worse possible scenarios for how events play out next Saturday.  After all, this will be GameDay’s first ever visit to Morgantown and, let’s face it, with a paltry schedule of nobodies on the remainder of the WVU

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I made it into an ESPNU crowd shot, though you’ll have to take my word for it, because you really can’t tell from the screen capture (see red circle).

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It's a couple weeks into the college football season and I feel like I need to say something. Unfortunately, it's not as much football-related as it is fan-related.  If you happened to watch West Virginia's season-opening win over Marshall three weeks ago, you may have witnessed the following crowd shot: However, because we're dealing with live television, the shirt in the above picture was

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Anyone reading this who happens to follow college football knows what I’m referring to.  Starting this season, a new rule has been implemented in which excessive celebration that occurs before the end of the play (i.e. before the TD is scored) may be called by the referees as a live-ball foul, effectively taking the points off the board and placing the ball at the spot of the foul.  While the

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Having lived in the city now for over 4 years, I’ve come to a pretty decent conclusion about how traffic works up here.  When I first started living here, I had an idealistic view of how my commute would work.  Using my crude drawing skills (I opted against trying to use Photoshop to add texture to my “roads”), I have graphically depicted the way I thought traffic would work. Traffic How I

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At this point, even if he ‘unlikes’ it, I can still say that I have visual proof that a key member of one of the greatest teams in the history of West Virginia football found something that I posted to Facebook interesting.

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All In A Nutshell with Donald Duck and Chip N Dale: This cartoon begs the question: “Why would you make a nut butter with unshelled walnuts and acorns?” Clearly, in reaching this decision, I have decided to lump Art of Skiing in with the Christmas specials.  This is likely because, on the taped recording from my childhood, Art of Skiing preceded Mickey’s Christmas Carol, which of

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So I get this email at work the other day from a listserv for SAS users at Census. They've formed a group and were trying to come up with the name of the group, which they did by polling the people who were attending the inaugural meetings. These were the results: There are a couple of things that should stand out to anyone who’s ever read a graph:  The first is that 55 people participated in

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Courtesy of imagineeringdisney.com:

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Back to the Future was my favorite movie growing up.  I’ve probably seen it, easily, over a hundred times.  I know most of the lines before they are said, which really annoys people who happen to be watching the movie with me.  So it saddens me to no end to see it being absolutely butchered by ABC family, all for the sake of political correctness. Take this tidbit for instance: They literally

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Ah, Earth Day.  Ruining all your favorite television shows for the entire month of April for as long as you can remember.  But what you may not have realized is that the same predictions that were being made 41 years ago sound pretty similar to those being leveled in today’s political climate (except that “global cooling” and the next “ice age” were all the rage then).  So, before you believe

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Because the only “issue” this guy seems to be talking about is Obama’s birth certificate, largely lost on most conservatives are his stances on actual issues. Healthcare: I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health. It is an unacceptable but accurate fact that the number of uninsured Americans has risen to 42 million. Working out detailed plans will take time. But the goal

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Lately, I’ve seen a lot of my friends and coworkers blogging about cooking.  And taking pictures of their cooking.  And blogging about taking pictures of cooking.  And taking pictures of themselves blogging about cooking.  And so forth.  So, not to feel left out, I decided to try my hand at cooking, taking pictures, and writing about it.  I mean, I’ve lived on my own for going on 4 years now.  I

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I think I’ve found the staircase that was used in filming the Three Stooges classic “An Ache in Every Stake”.  Pretty amazing that it still exists after all this time (it was filmed in 1941). Then: Now:   View from down the stairs.  Then:   Now:   View from the top of the stairs now (obviously overgrown, but things tend to change over the course of 70 years.   Curly at

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Here’s an overhead scene from about 9 minutes into the movie:   Scene from Google Maps street view (actually filmed in L.A.): (click to enlarge)   Opposite side view (from 3 minute mark in movie):   And again in Google Maps (notice the rack of shirts present in both images):   Actual location is West 5th St between Broadway and Spring:

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One of my all-time favorite movies, one that has yet to be released to DVD, is “Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back)”.  For anyone who may be reading this that hasn’t seen the movie, essentially the plot involves the Peanuts gang traveling to France as part of a foreign exchange student program.  One of the iconic images of this movie is the Château du Mal Voisin, or The House of the

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My favorite Christmas desktop background of all time is the one on my grandmothers computer, see above. It has lasted for many years, and I think through multiple computers as well!It's not actually high resolution enough to work as a background on my laptop, but it's certainly sufficient for use on my cell phone, again see above.Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

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I'm getting pretty sick of President Obama's "car in the ditch" analogy. The one with the completely blameless Democrats standing in the ditch with shovels while the heartless evil republicans stand on the side of the road with Slurpees, hurling insults and dirt into the ditch. So, I plan on rewriting it: President Bush is on his way home from a night of heavy binge drinking.  He gets in the

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Crowd picture for Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally:   Crowd picture for the 10-2-10 “union” rally:   This is what the kiddies call an “EPIC FAIL”.  That is all.

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I'm doing this more for my record-keeping.than anything.  I mean, if there were ever a fire in my apartment building, would anyone ever believe my addiction-level DVD collection?

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But decided that I would give my feelings on West Virginia’s Final Four run.  It was a great run that ended just two games short of being the perfect run.  It all started with the loss that shouldn’t have been with Connecticut.  It was a game in which UConn had taken 40+ free-throws, including a double technical at the end of the game that resulted in Huggins being escorted from the arena.  If

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Picture I took on my trip to Colorado to cheer me up:

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In 90 seconds:

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Answer?  Apparently they just don’t give up: Home of the Brave (2006) Budget: $12,000,000 Gross: $$499,620 Net: -$11,500,380 In the Valley of Elah (2007) Budget: $23,000,000 Gross: $29,527,293 (only $6.7 million domestic) Net: $6,527,293 Redacted (2007) Budget: $5,000,000 Gross: $779,600 Net: -$4,220,400 Rendition (2007) Budget: $27,500,000 Gross:

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Just to see if I can...

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I thought I'd try to start posting on here again.

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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, 'Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City

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I don't understand why the White House is so upset about the two party crashers at Barack Obama's steak dinner the other night.Is it really appropriate and politically correct to call them party crashers just because they trespassed on Mr. Obama? Does that make them criminals? Isn't that discrimination? Shouldn't they be rewarded for such bold and brave behavior? Maybe they were just trying to

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I haven't posted since September?

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July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969

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Medicare Part A (covering hospital visits) and Part B (doctor visits): $68 trillion in unfunded liabilities.Medicare Part D (covering prescription drugs): $17.2 trillion in unfunded liabilities.Social Security: $13.6 trillion in unfunded liabilities.U.S. Postal Service: $7 billion loss this fiscal year.Cash for Clunkers: $3 billionObamacare: TBA

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No need for complaints in socialized medicine. What are you going to do, switch to the competition?

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Good News: Obama "saved or created" over 3,000 jobs in Oregon.Bad News: The average job lasted 35 hours, or less than one work week.-LINK-Even Worse News: The reason why no one in the government is reading the legislation they pass, according to the John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee

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This is what Obama wants to bring to America:

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Or not

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In 1977, John Holdren, a teacher at U.C. Berkeley co-authored a book called Ecoscience.In this book, he discusses the problem of overpopulation, and offers the following, insanely radical solutions:Forced abortions:Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the

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And I'm pretty sure we all know the reason why:

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This is more for my own reference:Value Description URL A comma separated of URLs to custom cursors. Note: Always specify a generic cursor at the end of the list, in case none of the URL-defined cursors can be used auto Default. The browser sets a cursor crosshair The cursor render as a crosshair default The default cursor

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If I hear another person ask me why I'm so concerned with how much Obama is spending, but did not speak word one while Bush was running up the debt, here's the reason why, with an analogy we can all relate to: riding in a car. While Bush was driving the car, the debt marched steadily upwards, but with Obama at the wheel, we're left basically holding on for dear life. So yea, there is a

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courtesy of the old Monty Python sketches.

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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and

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I couldn't decide which pasta I wanted for dinner tonight, so I decided to let R decide for me.> sample(c("Farfalle","Elbow Macaroni","Penne Rigate","Gemelli","Tortellini"),1)[1] "Gemelli" Gemelli it is:

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the most liberal paper on the face of the planet:

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And the winner is..... John Ziegler! What's ironic about this clip is that Contessa doesn't see why anyone would take offense to the perverted jokes David Letterman made last week (calling Sarah Palin a "slutty flight attendant" and making jokes about her "knocked-up daughter"), but she sure seems to get her panties in a bunch when he insults the state-run media (i.e. MSNBC), finally yelling to

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The rent-a-cops working the Census Bureau parking lots are I-D-I-O-T-S. Over the last two weeks, I have parked in the exact same parking space and left the garage at the exact same time. Every day. During this time span, the traffic flow has been changed no less than 4 times. I find, in times like this, a map is useful:And here is the key:Red corresponds to my path taken last week.Green

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The time has come.The time is now.Just go. Go. Go!I don't care how.You can go by foot.You can go by cow.Gordon Brown will you please go now!You can go on skates.You can go on skis.You can go in a hat.But please go. Please!I don't care. You can go by bike.You can go on a Zike-Bike if you like.If you like you can go in an old blue shoe.Just go, go GO! Please do, do, Do!Gordon Brown I don't care

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Currently reading:An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest ProblemsBy Glenn Beck * If everyone accepted the predictions of the Mayan Long Count calendar that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012, I could probably already retire.* It's just the beginning of June and I've already posted more in 2009 than I did in all of 2008.* Nobody in my apartment complex works

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It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a

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...but I'm still addicted to this game:

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"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."-- Norman ThomasSocialist Party presidential candidate, 1944 campaign speechSusan Boyle's second performance was just as good as her first. I think part of the

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My sisters graduation last night took a little longer than I had expected. I helped pass the time by listening to all the funny-sounding names they called out for the more obscure degrees. The one that took first prize: "Margarita Villa".Congradulations, Tess!

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Things aren't looking too good for one of my favorite shows. It's already been renewed for a fourth season, in part because of a good showing in the 18-49 demographic, as well as a strong international audience. However, there is a clear dropoff in viewership. If they don't want the fourth season to be their last, they should probably try to avoid killing off main characters (Nathan) and

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I saw this commercial the other day and I stopped everything I was doing, got up off the couch, walked into the kitchen, and opened my pantry to make sure that I had not mistakenly purchased any Sun Chips by mistake. You see, they could be the tastiest chip ever made but I will never find out because I refuse to buy a product whose commercial features a bunch of people prancing around in a field

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After watching the last season and a half of Family Guy, I've come to realize I can pretty much sum it up with a quote from South Park:Kyle: Thanks a lot for the ride.Trucker: Ey, it's the least I could do. I hope you succeed, kid. I really don't wanna see Family Guy go off the air. I love that show!Kyle: I'll do everything I can.Trucker: I mean, I know it's just joke after joke, but I like that.

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I was reading a tweet today from somebody's Twitter page that eventually linked to a blog someone had written about a letter written by David Klinghoffer from the Discovery Institute to a University of Vermont biology professor, extending an invitation to a campus forum-style debate on creationism (intelligent design) v. evolution.His response was arrogant, sarcastic, and dismissive. I looked up

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Whoa, I just found my car on Google Maps

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Every time I see someone post this image on their blog, Twitter, Facebook, etc., I immediately dismiss anything they then proceed to write. Fox News is the only hope for professional journalism, which otherwise died with "coverage" of the 2008 Presidential Election. You feel like being spoon-fed your teabagging jokes from CNN or NBC? If you do, you probably are alone! Ratings don't lie:P2+

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data random_start_splits (drop=i);river=27686/39*ranuni(putn('29APR2009'd, 5.));nonriver=114856/39*ranuni(putn('29APR2009'd, 5.));output;retain river nonriver;do i = 1 to 38; river=river+27686/39; nonriver=nonriver+114856/39; output;end;run;I wrote SAS code today, for my sampling class, that creates a random start and series of sampling splits (for systematic sampling) using a random

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A bar on every window and a gun in every hand.For any Census Bureau employees who had ever considered living in the Suitland area just to make for a quicker commute, don't. I had my life threatened today just because I honked my horn at someone for nearly crashing into me. This event prompted me to come up with a checklist of rules pertaining to the Suitland area, so here we go:HOW NOT TO GET

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Obama May Block Sun's Rays to End Global Warming -vs-

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I am - because I laugh. I laugh - because of Congress.

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