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Say it ain’t so, Joe!

September 4, 2006

Well, Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed today by a stingray. Little known fact: I ALMOST applied for the second season of Survivor (the one where they killed a pig and one guy fell in the fire). I thought – a PhD student in Statistics at Duke is a shoe in! I actually had [...]

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Reincarnated Monkey God Roaming India?

June 30, 2006

From Dilbert.Blog by Scott Adams: 13-inch tail After my recent post, a reader alerted me to the true story of a man in India who was born with a 13-inch tail. People think he’s a reincarnation of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman. The man claims that people are cured of severe ailments when they touch [...]

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Update

November 10, 2005

The doctors believe my grandpa has stage II esophagael cancer, with a 10cm diameter tumor encircling (and constricting) the lower section of his esophagus. It appears that it was caused by genetic predisposition and chronic GERD (smoking can also be a cause, but my grandfather’s never smoked a cigarette in his life). He’s going to [...]

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My Likes and Dislikes of Deutschland

September 4, 2004

I was pretty surprised at how different Germany is to the US. Before I moved, I expected it would basically be the same, just a different language. I had visited Germany for a whole month and liked it a lot, but visiting and living are not the same. It is very different here and it [...]

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Religion good God Y’all. What is it good for?

September 2, 2004

I have become very depressed recently by the events in the world. It seems to me that religious extremists (note, I said extremists, I’m not discussing everyone who is religious) are trying to push their beliefs on the rest of us; many commiting violent acts in the process. I am not just talking about Islamic [...]

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Lazy Blogger Bum

August 23, 2004

Yes, I know, I haven’t written in almost a week. Germany needs more doctors. I was at the orthopedist today and I had to stand in the waiting room because all 15 seats were full. Rainer says going to the doctor is old person sport here. This is the downside of full medical coverage. I’m [...]

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