An Exercise in Avoiding Boredom

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A friend recently challenged me regarding a prior post on honor student bumper stickers. Specifically, he didn’t believe that someone would put an offensive bumper sticker on their car because he thought everyone would worry their car might get scratched. (You can tell my friend is German, as it is a common German neurosis that [...]

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According to GraphJam, that is. (Don’t ask me what GraphJam is, I don’t know. Seems to be some kind of wasting-office-hours service. I’m looking at it from home, of course…)

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Seen today on my way to work, on a car’s bumper, a sticker with the following message:
My car cost more than the education of your honor student.
(In the U.S. cars frequently have stickers on their bumpers saying “my child is an honor student at Podunk elementary school”).

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No doubt about it, this spam email (forwarded to me by a friend) has literary ambitions:

Subject: jackal in uk
From: noreply@antisigma.classics.utoronto.ca
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:07:52 +0200
To: v.wohl@utoronto.ca
bug,
safe and ez trip. ok room. poor sleep. very poor.
i’ll try to find a real terminal soon. this is send-only (museum). hope you and dude abide.
luff,
e

I’m pretty sure that [...]

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Sent to me by a friend, presumably a photo of a German residential high-rise. I guess the Euro soccer championship brought this out.

This could, of course, also be an old photo. In this Internet day and age you never know when someone decided to recirculate old stuff for whatever purpose.

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The hoopla around same-sex marriage on the radio today is deafening. The more amused I was when a friend sent me a link to this photo, courtesy of one “joestump” on Flickr.

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Now I know the real reasons behind the demise of my Roomba.

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As the photo below demonstrates, the skills needed for succeeding in the military are non-trivial. Looking at the photo (not sure which army or military organization this is), suggests that you should neither like to eat beans, onions, or garlic, and also that you should not be ticklish or heat sensitive in your private parts. [...]

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The 2007 SAP Research Report is out… Subtitled: thinking out of the box… Wished they had asked a native speaker. At least my thinking doesn’t come out of a box. It sure is unique! I hope the readers of this blog can attest to it.
If you use Google as an oracle, it shows to be [...]

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