The 2004 Archive

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Cooking Hazards

11.21.04 ø Comments Off
I tried to cook some fish today for lunch, flounder to be exact, in oil on a skillet. I thawed the filet, covered it in flour and heated the oil. Then I proceeded to flip the fish onto the skillet. My lesson learned today was to never "flip" something into a pan of seriously hot [...]

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National Treasure

11.21.04 ø Comments Off
This film had the potential to be either really good or really lame, depending on how the makers pulled it off. When I saw the trailer for the first time other movies like The Mummy and Ocean's 11 popped up in my mind because of the historical twist and grand theft heist that seemed related. [...]

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Novel Rage

11.19.04 ø Comments Off
Kurt Vonnegut says: "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."

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CSI: Good for Science?

11.18.04 ø Comments Off
Geek news site Slashdot has risen the question of whether CSI, and it's two spin-offs, are actually good models of what forensic science really is. On the one hand, they've caused a boom in the popularity of forensic science college courses, and they glamorize geeks bent over microscopes, rather than smarmy lawyers. On the other hand, they [...]

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Sleep, Speed & Love

11.16.04 ø Comments Off
Ohh, remind me never to eat an entire small cheese pizza again. So, according to Improbable Research, Professor Robert Thornton of LeHigh University has a phenomenal idea for regulating students who sleep during his lectures: If sleep appeared imminent, those who did not wish to be roused could simply hang a "Do Not Disturb" sign [...]

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Poor Printer

11.14.04 ø Comments Off
I didn't know that printers could get tired out until today. I'm currently printing out a walkthrough for Dark Cloud 2, an awesome game for PS2 that I haven't played in a few months. Too busy with school and what-not. Rented it from Blockbuster although I should probably just buy it off of eBay. But [...]

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