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09 Jul 2008 The Legacy of Eisenstein
01 Jul 2008 Can You Believe It?
18 Jun 2008 The Oddities of Graduate Research in the post-Soviet era.
20 May 2008 Turning a pastime into a brain-wracking exercise
18 May 2008 The procrastinatory joys of youtube.
09 May 2008 Check this out.
01 May 2008 This is the UEFA Cup final I wanted!!!
23 Apr 2008 Champion, pet!
17 Apr 2008 The Weight On Your Shoulders is Breakin' Your Back
21 Mar 2008 Everybody get to the back of the bus!
09 Mar 2008 The Unmatched Laurel & Hardy.
24 Feb 2008 Oh, there was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run...
16 Feb 2008 Crazy happenings all over the news!
13 Feb 2008 Spring is Springing Soon!
06 Feb 2008 Just positing a theory here.
30 Jan 2008 Stupid Americans
27 Jan 2008 The Great Orator.
21 Jan 2008 Fastest Goal EVER in the Spanish League!
12 Jan 2008 Blackhawks fans are mentally unstable...much like the Blackhawks themselves.
27 Dec 2007 Tidy Up
20 Dec 2007 A gold-mine on t'Interet.
15 Dec 2007 Twins Acquisitions and Bad Holiday Ambience
08 Dec 2007 End of a Quarter and New-Look Twins?
03 Dec 2007 Academics and Baseball
21 Nov 2007 Tales from the Second City. Episode 5: Playing Catch-up.
26 Oct 2007 Reprieve: A place where autumn exists.
21 Oct 2007 "...because eventually, no matter how good you are, someone will hate you and think of you as a bug. And the next thing you know: you're gone."
14 Oct 2007 Tales from the Second City. Episode 4: Silence and Music.
08 Oct 2007 Tales from the Second City. Episode 3: Defeat.
05 Oct 2007 A Not-so-amusing, but typical tale and photos.
05 Oct 2007 Tales from the Second City. Episode 2: Ted Lilly and the Unenviable Workload
28 Sep 2007 Hooray! It's Critical Mass Friday!
24 Sep 2007 Tales from the Second City. Episode 1: Getting my bearings.
15 Aug 2007 I'm not gonna lie.
24 Jun 2007 The Lake Above All Others
17 Jun 2007 Weekend Activities...
14 Jun 2007 10 Questions about Books:
13 Jun 2007 Death, Baseball, and the less important things of life...
31 May 2007 Hmmm....what? Oh, sorry. I forgot my blog was still here.
21 May 2007 As Warren G. Harding said, "...a return to normalcy."
15 May 2007 Shutting Down.
07 May 2007 Now that the rant has been quarantined...
07 May 2007 Selective Memory.
02 May 2007 Many Many Happenings: Some Good, Some Bad.
19 Apr 2007 One Month Left...
05 Apr 2007 I have to get my last thoughts in before taking off...
18 Mar 2007 Everybody's Irish, Everybody's Ukrainian, Everybody's Canadian (apparently)
15 Mar 2007 Avoiding Police and reading a lot.
28 Feb 2007 Well, Ok. I'll tear up this ticket, but I'm still gonna have to ask you for a bribe.
20 Feb 2007 I Am OK.
18 Feb 2007 OK, I'm sorry. I was hoping to do this about two weeks ago.
05 Feb 2007
05 Feb 2007
24 Jan 2007 All the Latest News on the Murder that Nobody talks about anymore
24 Jan 2007 ...like a ball waiting to be kicked....
16 Jan 2007 Enemployed!
10 Jan 2007 Hey Everybody, it's Random Wednesday!!!
01 Jan 2007 Family Business
29 Dec 2006 New Links
27 Dec 2006 So Long. Farewell. I hate to say goodbye.
26 Dec 2006 God Knige
17 Dec 2006 Random Observations in honor of a blog-shy friend.
11 Dec 2006 They don't make 'em like they used to...
07 Dec 2006 Trips and Observances...
19 Nov 2006 Oh, Weddings!!!
14 Nov 2006 Dead men walk. And do laundry.
08 Nov 2006 And the sun rises once again....
03 Nov 2006 A slight touch of the razor
21 Oct 2006 What comes after the Blues?
16 Oct 2006 I'll take the river down to Stillwater and ride a pack of dogs...
13 Oct 2006 Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot to complain about...
13 Oct 2006 What?!?
07 Oct 2006 Know when to hold 'em. Know when to fold 'em.
02 Oct 2006 God Loves the Twins (& other minor axioms)
22 Sep 2006 Reporting to you LIVE from the coffeeshop next to work.
18 Sep 2006 The Slavic Presence.
14 Sep 2006 Only in Africa.
08 Sep 2006 Minor Observations
08 Sep 2006 Go tell Aunt Rodie the old grey goose is dead.
25 Aug 2006 Vultures! Vultures, I tell ya!
23 Aug 2006 Whoop! Whoop! That's the sound of the police!
21 Aug 2006 Collected Bits and Pieces.
12 Aug 2006 Catch O' the Day
01 Aug 2006 Attention Twins!
31 Jul 2006 Death Wish VIII: On a Bus
23 Jul 2006 Artists and Ice Cream
20 Jul 2006 Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20,
20 Jul 2006 Matt Lauer is a stupid, ignorant man.
04 Jul 2006 The Pope roots for Italy
24 Jun 2006 '54, '74, '90, ('06): Deutschland ueber alles! (this blog can't recognize non-English characters)
23 Jun 2006 The Kinny.
23 Jun 2006 Going Waaaay Back (and Gone!)
16 Jun 2006 a quick note
09 Jun 2006 The Baseball Part
09 Jun 2006 Ya khozhu v sankt-peterburg!
30 May 2006 Dead on my feet.
26 May 2006 I work hard for the money!
24 May 2006 Updated Links
22 May 2006 Funding: Good News and Otherwise
16 May 2006 Hooray! Google Maps! (And that's not all google does. Yuk yuk yuk!)
12 May 2006 I feel obliged to write
02 May 2006 Come from the land of the ice and snow...
26 Apr 2006 The League Is Upside-Down
26 Apr 2006 Best of 2006!
24 Apr 2006 Some History-related stuff.
22 Apr 2006 It's been a long time. Now I'm coming back home.
08 Apr 2006 Hey! I got published!
08 Apr 2006 Spring Days.
05 Apr 2006 Daylight Savings is great.
28 Mar 2006 I'm in shock and awe that Rachel Lyles hasn't heard of Lulu Lemon.
20 Mar 2006 Observations.
17 Mar 2006 A Brief St. Paddy's Day Update:
09 Mar 2006 All Victoria Playwrights Prepare to be Offended!
06 Mar 2006 Kirby Puckett, 1960-2006.
03 Mar 2006 Oh, honestly Coca-Cola!
03 Mar 2006 Other Steps.
18 Feb 2006 Big Steps.
16 Feb 2006 Johnson, Navin R.: Sounds like a your run-of-the-mill son-of-a-b****
11 Feb 2006 English Radio.
08 Feb 2006 Bad to Worse
02 Feb 2006 East is East
01 Feb 2006 Might as well face it, you're addicted to oil.
31 Jan 2006 I've heard this one before...
30 Jan 2006 Big Oil...as if anyone is surprised.
29 Jan 2006 Just Say 'Fro!
26 Jan 2006 Strange Occurences
26 Jan 2006 Burns' Night: an afterword
25 Jan 2006 What's On the Reading List?
23 Jan 2006 Papers.
17 Jan 2006 Forgive the hyperbole.
12 Jan 2006 Some quick thoughts...
06 Jan 2006 Back In Town
31 Dec 2005 Don't try to dance like "Snaker" Dave Ray. Last guy who tried got 30 days.
30 Dec 2005 Eve of Eve.
25 Dec 2005 Pros in the WBC
25 Dec 2005 Tanenbaum und Essen
22 Dec 2005 Happy Trees and Happy Little Bushes.
20 Dec 2005 It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
19 Dec 2005 The Ramblings of the Homeward Bound
14 Dec 2005 The Coasters.
10 Dec 2005 Long Time Coming.
30 Nov 2005 When the snow falls in November...
27 Nov 2005 Lonliness and Boredom
24 Nov 2005 Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction...or at least as strange.
23 Nov 2005 Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
21 Nov 2005 Walk The Line
19 Nov 2005 Hey Guys
07 Nov 2005 Russian Current Events
05 Nov 2005 I got this coupon in the mail that says, "buy one, get one free".
02 Nov 2005 Another Very Clever Article From Rum & Monkey
02 Nov 2005 What Kind of Pirate:00 AM I?
01 Nov 2005 All Saints' Day.
27 Oct 2005 Observations.
25 Oct 2005 Friends: --------
25 Oct 2005 A Final Word On the Subject.
24 Oct 2005 doppelganger.
17 Oct 2005 More Thoughts On the Subject
15 Oct 2005 Class agitation in BC
15 Oct 2005 New Links.
14 Oct 2005 Last Night...
10 Oct 2005 Thanksgiving Weekend.
07 Oct 2005 Let's Drop The #*&@ing Puck!
01 Oct 2005 Films and films
23 Sep 2005 Le Weekend.
18 Sep 2005 Seals and Crafts
12 Sep 2005 Too Much Time On My Hands
08 Sep 2005 The New Pitman.
07 Sep 2005 The First Day Of The Last Year
02 Sep 2005 More Photos Added
01 Sep 2005 The waning days of summer...no dog days out here.
24 Aug 2005 Score!
24 Aug 2005 The season's changing; my leaves are turning.
22 Aug 2005 The Savage returns
12 Aug 2005 A night on the town.
08 Aug 2005 Today is the Memorial of St. Altman....who?
05 Aug 2005 The Beatles and Flaming Pies
02 Aug 2005 El Slaverino
31 Jul 2005 Stats vs. Intangibles
25 Jul 2005 pickin' up the bits and pieces
20 Jul 2005 ...so Steve Martin walks into a bar and orders a Mozeltov Cocktail...
15 Jul 2005 Libert�! Egalit�! Fraternit�!...the day after.
11 Jul 2005 7-11
03 Jul 2005 07/, 07/
30 Jun 2005 Films, etc.
27 Jun 2005 Luke & Michelle Hillestad.
26 Jun 2005 Dan Rightler!
23 Jun 2005 Freakin' Hot as Hades!
21 Jun 2005 Sun and Rain.
18 Jun 2005 Inevitably, I saw Star Wars.
17 Jun 2005 Here's Where I Was a Year Ago Today!
16 Jun 2005 Old Man.
14 Jun 2005 Bye Bye Birdie.
09 Jun 2005 The Rites of Spring
04 Jun 2005 Back From the 'Couv.
30 May 2005 Songs For Silverman
25 May 2005 Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.
25 May 2005 Now 100% Spam Free!
21 May 2005 Victoria Day Long Weekend.
20 May 2005 Just Call Me Dr. Ben
18 May 2005 The Goings On Continue to Roll On...
17 May 2005 I'm not tired, I'm just sleepy.
13 May 2005 Bullets Over Broadway
13 May 2005 4 Eyes
12 May 2005 Money, people, walking to work.
03 May 2005 You'll Never Walk Alone
30 Apr 2005 Chillin' with the 'rents
27 Apr 2005 All Canadians Beware!!!
24 Apr 2005 Losing my ID; Losing my Marbles
22 Apr 2005 The World's Fattest Race Horse
21 Apr 2005 The first entry of a 22-year-old.
15 Apr 2005 Rejoining the Rat-race and other items of interest
13 Apr 2005 Upgraded
10 Apr 2005 Saturday clothes.
02 Apr 2005 News Stories of Varying Degrees of Importance...
01 Apr 2005 ...
30 Mar 2005 Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
22 Mar 2005 Now HERE'S a question for ya!
14 Mar 2005 Happy St. Matilda's Day: The Day of the patron saint of parents of large families....sheesh.
10 Mar 2005 These Days
02 Mar 2005 Yowza! Yowza! Yowza!
02 Mar 2005 The Moustache Finale!
28 Feb 2005 Class System.
25 Feb 2005 The Day of Thor. Links-a-plenty
21 Feb 2005 Sometimes you gotta just give'r.
21 Feb 2005 What a Bummer.
15 Feb 2005 Reedin' Brake
06 Feb 2005 Top 10 Artists
05 Feb 2005 A Great Saturday of Sport
28 Jan 2005 Out On the Weekend.
22 Jan 2005 Gonzo fiddles while Robert Burns.
21 Jan 2005 The President's Reading List
19 Jan 2005 a climbing update
18 Jan 2005 Some pieces in the news...and links galore.
13 Jan 2005 about moss.
12 Jan 2005 Odd Weather.
12 Jan 2005 Smile.
08 Jan 2005 Read It and Weep, Minneapolis!
06 Jan 2005 some baseball columns.
05 Jan 2005 The Boys Are Back In Town.
02 Jan 2005 Last Day For Awhile.
26 Dec 2004 The Day After...
21 Dec 2004 sub-zero wins.
17 Dec 2004 the Classic Rock Year in Review
13 Dec 2004 The End of an Era
11 Dec 2004 Ole Ole Ole Ole! Going up-up-up!
10 Dec 2004 Pantera marathons?
02 Dec 2004 the history geek in me.
01 Dec 2004 Moderate Activism
25 Nov 2004 A Happy Thanksgiving indeed.
21 Nov 2004 Good things goin on.
20 Nov 2004 Verily, He is risen!
17 Nov 2004 The streetcar had stopped and I had not.
16 Nov 2004 One Monkey at One Typewriter.
13 Nov 2004 Steely Dan.
11 Nov 2004 Happy Poppy Day!
08 Nov 2004 A Big ol' chocolate-covered Kudos.
07 Nov 2004 the past few days.
03 Nov 2004 I'm not saying I'll be sorry, for all the things that I might say to make you cry.
01 Nov 2004 A Treatise on the Forthcoming Election.
01 Nov 2004 Finally...
28 Oct 2004 the morning after...
25 Oct 2004 In the thick of things.
21 Oct 2004 Chew on this...
20 Oct 2004 another book put away.
17 Oct 2004 Photos from my demise...
12 Oct 2004 Bo Diddley and the Pink Moon
09 Oct 2004 Nobody Understands my Genius.
06 Oct 2004 October Baseball.
29 Sep 2004 wedding. paper. russian. reading.
23 Sep 2004 none.
13 Sep 2004 Right writers.
10 Sep 2004 My computer can do this: �. Can yours?
06 Sep 2004 Settling In...
01 Sep 2004 Rehearsals for Departure (sigh) again!
30 Aug 2004 The Weight (wait?)
23 Aug 2004 rundown.
19 Aug 2004 4-1...West Brom are losing 4-1!
16 Aug 2004 For your amusement or bemusement.
14 Aug 2004 Hangin out by the Ghetto in the Sky
08 Aug 2004 We were just in the 11th grade...
28 Jul 2004 Better than Tinker to Evers to Chance
20 Jul 2004 Minnapolis (Postscript (The story so far...)).
14 Jul 2004 MOCKBA
07 Jul 2004 Sankt Peterburg
04 Jul 2004 Warszawa.
29 Jun 2004 Krakow.
28 Jun 2004 Auschwitz
27 Jun 2004 Not a city, but an idea.
23 Jun 2004 Berlin.
22 Jun 2004 a non-city title is in order...
20 Jun 2004 Venezia
17 Jun 2004 Ljubljana.
08 Jun 2004 Passau.
05 Jun 2004 Freiburg
02 Jun 2004 K�ln
31 May 2004 :00 AMsterdam.
29 May 2004 Bath.
27 May 2004 the end...the beginning....the middle of what?
16 May 2004 A concert to remember
12 May 2004 I Got a List of Stuff as long as your arm and twice as much fun!
05 May 2004 We-Are-Premier-League! Said-We-Are-Premier-League!
29 Apr 2004 Dial "Z" for Zombies
27 Apr 2004 it's springtime (for Hitler)
20 Apr 2004 a funny thing happened...
19 Apr 2004 friday no-fun day.
19 Apr 2004 Los Fabulos Calexico
17 Apr 2004 Where's the line to sign up for handguns?
15 Apr 2004 Away on Family Business...
11 Apr 2004 Verily, He is risen!
06 Apr 2004 It took a lot of effort for me to write this entry without using strong language.
02 Apr 2004 when the working day is done, boys just wanna have fuhuuuun. That's all we really waaaaaant!
28 Mar 2004 don't come a-cryin if your daddy don't treat ya no good.
23 Mar 2004 untitled
19 Mar 2004 The fun things you find in your research...
15 Mar 2004 Glen Nevis.
12 Mar 2004 Le Communards v. le Versaillies
09 Mar 2004 Who won the pub quiz? WE won the pub quiz!
07 Mar 2004 Of the thousands of people I've guarded, I've only lost three....would you believe four?
04 Mar 2004 When the rain comes they run and hide thier heads
29 Feb 2004 The Warmth of the Sun
26 Feb 2004 Thor's Day
24 Feb 2004 Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras/Karnivale
23 Feb 2004 Grrrrr....
23 Feb 2004 What am You Giving Up For Lent?
20 Feb 2004 The Apes of Wrath
19 Feb 2004 i'm sick and the network is slow.
17 Feb 2004 sunny skies decided not to sleep this morning.
17 Feb 2004 Joy and Jubilee
15 Feb 2004 I am not going to see Sufjan Stevens in Glasgow.
12 Feb 2004 .
11 Feb 2004 Maybe, just maybe I'll finish my book today.
10 Feb 2004 sad sad songs.
09 Feb 2004 School's In Till Summer! School's In Forever!
30 Jan 2004 As you may have
27 Jan 2004 Ok, lemme just clarify in
25 Jan 2004 Steve and I went walking
23 Jan 2004 I went to Edinburgh yesterday.
21 Jan 2004 well, I was hoping that
20 Jan 2004 "What a mystery is
15 Jan 2004 I'm almost half-way done with
14 Jan 2004 Attn: KP. Stop. Inserted html
13 Jan 2004 Alright, so I took this
12 Jan 2004 I have a job. Well,
08 Jan 2004 The best way to describe
04 Jan 2004 I have finally crossed that
04 Jan 2004 You're Generally Indie. There's nothing
04 Jan 2004 Well, Britain got the blizzard.
02 Jan 2004 Well, I'm back in Stirling.
01 Jan 2004 Hey dudes and dudettes. Happy
30 Dec 2003 Well, my apologies for pulling
23 Dec 2003 the days are slowly getting
22 Dec 2003 www.sugplopp.tk there's an online battle.
22 Dec 2003 Back in Stirling and couldn't
19 Dec 2003 I'm in Belfast tonight. After
18 Dec 2003 Good day friends. And good
15 Dec 2003 Good day. I'm safely in
12 Dec 2003 If you've got a spare
12 Dec 2003 I'm ready for this week
09 Dec 2003 I'm duuuun. Alright! Finals seemed
06 Dec 2003 Could someone PLEASE explain to
03 Dec 2003 Today has been one of
02 Dec 2003 It seems that everyone has
02 Dec 2003 it seems we've all been
01 Dec 2003 I'm not in pain, so
26 Nov 2003 Greetings my peeps! How goes
26 Nov 2003 Greetings my peeps! How goes
25 Nov 2003 Excellent News! Ben has a
24 Nov 2003 Paintballing yesterday has left me
20 Nov 2003 So I went to Dunfermline
18 Nov 2003 link of the day: http://www.mangydog.com/games/drphil.php
15 Nov 2003 I saw "The Dirty Dozen"
13 Nov 2003 Last night was my night
09 Nov 2003 I really have to stop
07 Nov 2003 I got my first paper
06 Nov 2003 Huh. Well, this is interesting.
06 Nov 2003 I took the Quiz: I
05 Nov 2003 i've come to the conclusion
04 Nov 2003 I am reading with increasing
03 Nov 2003 It's been awhile since I've
28 Oct 2003 it's been pretty drab today.
27 Oct 2003 well, this is where ben
03 Mar 2003 I was approached by three

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