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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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