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Innocence Gained?

April 12, 2007

From WashingtonPost.com: Duke Rape Case Collapses a Year Later RALEIGH, N.C. — Nearly a year after calling the rape accusations he and two Duke lacrosse teammates faced nothing but “fantastic lies,” David Evans again stood before the cameras and proclaimed his innocence.This time, there was no room for doubt. A few hours earlier, North Carolina [...]

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Shall we play a game?

November 15, 2006

So recently Mausi had a guess the first lines of the first ten songs that came up on her Ipod post. I didn’t manage to guess any, but I thought it was a really cool idea, so I’m going to do it too. I actually thought of doing random lines from my movie collection, but [...]

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The Ghost of Halloween’s Past

October 31, 2006

Officially in Germany, today is Reformation Day (as in Martin Luther), but for me it’s good ole Halloween. I was all prepared. I had a nice carved pumpkin and a boatload of goodies, and not one trick-or-treater stopped by. This was not for lack of trick-or-treaters in the neighborhood, I took Charlie out at one [...]

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Color me curious!

October 11, 2006

I know, I know, I need to stop using so many exclamation points in my titles. But I was just checking my website stats and found that someone at Caltech searched for my name, then made four entries onto my website. It is possible that I know someone at Caltech, so I’m very curious who [...]

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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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Alphabetic Fun, aka From A to Zed, aka I am the Alpha and the Omega

July 10, 2006

[A is for age:] 31[B is for booze of choice:] Southern Comfort, but not straight[C is for career:] None at the moment. Statistics?[D is for your dog's name:] Charlie the gas factory[E is for essential items you use everyday] My rapidly aging computer, whose right speaker has stopped working[F is for favorite song at the [...]

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Argh… can’t sleep

June 16, 2006

So, some random thoughts… In the video in my last post, I didn’t translate what the crowd is chanting. They’re saying, “Arme Polen, alles ist vorbei, alles ist vorbei, alles ist vorbei,” which translates to, “Poor Poland, it’s over, it’s over, it’s over.” Bob from the WorldCupBlog gives a very entertaining report of his experiences [...]

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