Whether or not Iowa pulls it off against Indiana (they are down 21-7 now and Stanzi just threw a 40 yard interception) one thing is clear. Ricky Stanzi cannot throw the football worth a damn. Which is too bad, because he has everything else you want in a QB. Reads defenses well, check. Mobility...
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I’ve just started Bruce Sterling’s new book,Carayatids. I’m only a few pages in, so don’t say nothin’! I heard M.I.A.’s Paper Planes on the “radio” (a streaming radio station). I’d loved the beat of the song when it peaked last year from its use in Slumdog Millionare but had never listened to the words...
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Staying with the football theme for this rainy Monday. The Chicago Fire will start the MLS playoffs next week facing (again!) the New England Revolution in a home-and-away two game series. If familiarity breeds contempt, Fire fans have every reason to hate the Revs as we have faced them in the playoffs now five...
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So, I was perusing some of the Iowa republican-oriented websites this morning. Gotta know what the other side is up to and all that. I stumbled upon this post at iowarepublican. com, Drink of the Week: Football or Futbol?. As has been noted here I have a love-hate relationship with American football and a...
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How appropriate, eh? I’m surprised it took me this long. Future of the Left is on tour now.
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We do NOT in any way advocate pirating software. But what I want to know is does the tiny chair come with a tiny Steve Ballmer? Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party – watch more funny videos
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And it is a pretty happy day. Our experience with Windows 7 at the office has been very positive. I have been running it as my only OS after an in-place upgrade from Vista a week ago. I have almost no complaints. Ryan Voss installed it on his laptop, a lower-end, three year-old HP...
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CNN Small Business has Des Moines as the Number 8 mid-sized city in America to launch a small business. Dubuque, Waterloo and Ames are ranked eight, seventeen and eighteen among smaller cites. Four cities in the top 50. That is eight percent of the total. Considering that Iowa is the 30th largest state, I’d...
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Since Windows 7 is right around the corner and since people have somehow been given the impression that I know stuff about technology and stuff, I had to go and install Windows 7 on my every-day work computer. Why expose myself to this potential productivity killing activity? I do it for you, my loyal...
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I don’t know. bit as I looked today, I seem to be missing the better part of three years’ worth of posts. Everything from December 2004 to February 2008 is gone. I’m looking into it. Not that anyone really cares, but I use them to look back and refer to.
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