June 2003
Adi Singing Weird Al
Continuing our series of quick moments in our lives captured on video, here is a clip from our trip to…
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06/30/03
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Pato Playing Memory
Usually it’s no fun to watch somebody else’s home movies, but if you’re family, and if the movies are short…
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06/30/03
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Guster
Dad and I went to a Guster show the other day in Morristown. This might be the first concert I’ve…
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06/30/03
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Our Perfect Summer
There is a new David Sedaris essay called Our Perfect Summer in the New Yorker this week. He’s normally a…
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06/30/03
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Monthly Archives
I have made the Monthly Archive pages. They have calendars up top, links to their posts, and all their posts…
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06/30/03
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Author Pages
I’ve put up author pages for the five of us who have posted on Maddenation. They’re super incomplete (even mine…
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06/30/03
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Site Design Update
I am currently (over the weekend, maybe a little longer) cleaning up the site design, designing interior pages, making things…
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06/28/03
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Holy Moley
Apple has just unveiled their new G5 processor (created in conjunction with IBM). I’m salivating (and hurting, because the top-o-the-line…
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06/25/03
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NYSP Journal
Because I cannot keep a journal on my own, and i’d like to for NYSP (the sports camp i’m working),…
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06/24/03
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Fluidity and Memory
Pato tackles the ever expanding “Wait one second”; his father tackles learning and language.
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06/21/03
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Chaos and Language
How does bilingualism influence our thoughts?
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06/21/03
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Mile Run/New Macs
i have a picture of mile run, 2 miles. it’s great. unfortunately, no freaking scanners at this university work. that’s…
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06/21/03
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Rage for Order
I actually wrote this the other day, but I’ll post it now. I think it’s a small example of how…
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06/21/03
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Singing
Anyway, Dad was talking about how Dan did a good impersonation of Neil Diamond live. Then we were talking about…
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06/15/03
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Happy Father’s Day
Karina and I disagree about how to handle this. We have a cool Father’s Day present for Dad, but I…
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06/15/03
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Father’s Day
It all began about 35 years ago, the day I knew I was falling in love with your mother. It…
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06/15/03
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New Category (Vetoed)
There has to be some prominent spot on maddenation for dad quotes, right? well, now we have that spot. it’s…
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06/14/03
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Why We Write
This is a sort of followup to the Practice Writing entry by Dad, but I wanted to get the quote…
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06/12/03
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God’s Grandeur
I’ll try not to turn this site into a repository for others’ poems, but here’s one more, and a recommendation…
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06/12/03
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NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
Hello folks. I hope you all read this. I am finishing up school today and tomorrow and should be recording…
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06/12/03
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Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden, the first black US poet laureate, is mentioned in Darryl Pinckney’s essay. I thought I’d share Hayden’s best-known…
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06/11/03
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Writing Skills
I’ve been thinking about what I do well in writing and have decided that I’m pretty good at lists. And…
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06/11/03
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Comments Error
I just got an Internal Server Error when I tried to post a comment on Dan’s entry. So I did…
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06/11/03
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Packing for Life
hi kids. dan is finishing up packing. he is going out to notre dame to work the same summer sports…
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06/10/03
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Spam
This is a good, scary article from the Weekly Standard about spam. One good thing to do about spam is…
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06/10/03
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Logo Design 99!
Ladies and Gentlemen, The latest in super-duper logo design: www.logodesign99.com All your problems solved for just $199! This website is…
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06/09/03
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Spontaneous Generation
I was looking up some information on Louis Pasteur today and discovered that he helped put to rest the theory…
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06/09/03
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Lord of the Rings & Noam Chomsky
I was hoping to extend my uncommented streak (it was at 7, going back to May 15th), but then you…
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06/08/03
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Blowing up a balloon II
Remember this entry that nobody answered? I decided to answer it. I would have done it sooner, except I had…
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06/08/03
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Service Trip and Ramblings
Hello Everybody! Sorry for the long absence from the site. I’ve been unbelievably busy and consumed. To give you an…
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06/07/03
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Practice Writing
I think it was during Dan’s graduation weekend that we got into a discussion about Maddenation, and the fact that…
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06/04/03
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
I started this entry earlier today, but had a computer glitch and lost it. Why is it that when you…
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06/04/03
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Warner Brothers
The headline on the front page of the current National Catholic Reporter is, “Wassup Doc?” (The story is about the…
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06/03/03
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Who is in the Boat?
Pat and Pete were in a boat. They fell out. Who was left?…
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06/01/03
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Three-Peat®!
Tonight at dinner we had pat and pete over and dad was mentioning that he read somewhere that Pat Riley…
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06/01/03
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