ALUM: Of course Jaspers had choices!

Saturday, August 5, 2006

http://www.dennern.1go.dk/?p=16

Dennern does Philly

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Traffic was very dense around the New York area, but we finally got there.
We are staying at Manhattan college which is situated right smack in the middle of the Bronx. Let’s just say that it’s not exactly the Sheraton Hotel, the rooms are pretty crappy but I guess it’s ok. I wouldn’t want to live for several years while I studied, but I think that a lot of people in this area are pretty poor so they have probably got no other option.

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Like the Geico commercial (a US car insurance company) with some great ads, specifically one with cavemen, “you might want to do a little research next time”. The Manhattan College  http://home.comcast.net/~jxymxu7sn5ho9d/Manhattan_College_ology.htm is a small college with Irish Catholic roots and many proud alums. Most of those alums had numerous opportunities to choose from all sorts of schools. I personally selected Manhattan over Notre Dame, USC, and UCLA. While I wasn’t rich by any measure, I could have went to any of them. Manhattan made the most sense for me. So before you judge a book by the cover, or a campus by the rooms, you may want to see the spirit behind those rooms.

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LIBERTY: There’s a price for blunders! A very expensive price.

Saturday, August 5, 2006

Op-Ed Contributor
The Flags of Our Sons
By BILLY SHORE
Published: August 4, 2006
Washington
Billy Shore is the founder of Share Our Strength, an antihunger organization.

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WHEN you fly as often as I do you learn to mind your own business as soon as you take your seat. But that wasn’t possible once I saw the military honor guard boarding US Airways’ 1:45 p.m. flight from Boston to Washington earlier this week.

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The mom and dad stepped away from the man in the T-shirt and to another window, still not touching, their movement synchronized by grief. They waited until the marine in charge came back up from the runway to escort them to a government vehicle. I went to my car and drove to work with no ambition for the day other than to be worthy.

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It’s real easy to forget the price being paid by real people. Blame the body politic’s failure in civic virtue by not supervising what our politicians are doing, the stupidity of ALL those politicians, gubamint ineptness, humanity’s passions, and a bunch of other reasons. But bear in mind that the piper will be paid!

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RANT: Look at this picture … time to don my Super L outfit and defend the woman

Saturday, August 5, 2006

What's Worse For the Baby?

OK, while I wouldn’t do it, or more accurately smoke while pregnant, or more accurately want my wife to smoke if she was pregnant.

We have to allow people the freedom to make their own choices. Mistakes will happen. And people should bear the responsibility for the choices that they make.

But, the pic is funny. Worry about jack hammers? Worry about smoking? Which is the more proximate hazard?

But it’s her body and her pregnancy. I would no more tell her what to do than I would want some one to take away my McDonald’s French Fries because “everyone knows those are bad for you”!

(I almost tapped out a bad word about being quiet!)

MYOB!

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TECH: Many search algorithms are flawed

Saturday, August 5, 2006

They don’t parse a search string with a blank in it correctly.

Here’s an email that I send a lot of sites:

To whom it may concern:

I think you may wish to reexamine your search code. I publish an ezine for my fellow alums of Manhattan College. Hence, I visit a lot of sites and do searches. My search string is “manhattan college”. When I executed it at XXXXXXXX, it searched as if it was “manahattan or college”. I see this behavior a lot. Just thought I’d call it to your attention.

Fjohn

I get many interesting responses. Some actually say thanks and fix it. The bigger the site the less likely it is to get fixed. Interesting common oversight.

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