gaspode's brain detritus

Miss Madeleine

2008-09-13T18:06:18Z

Has already demonstrated a decided joy at screaming at 4am, a love for her car seat, and ten tons of cuteness.

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Due date going, going...

2008-09-08T01:55:01Z

September 7th has nearly left us, so our daughter is officially "late". Of course, late is a complete misnomer, given that the whole 40 weeks thing is just an estimate (arbitrarily decided in the early part of the 20th century), but there is still...

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Palin has raised $8m... for Obama

2008-09-04T20:45:19Z

Obama's coffers have been filling since Sarah Palin attacked him repeatedly in St. Paul last night. An Obama aide confirms Drudge's report that Obama has raised about $8 million from more than 130,000 donors and is on pace to raise $10 million by...

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Rudy Giuliani's speech at the RNC

2008-09-04T17:43:40Z

You know, I rarely actually write anything about politics, never here, and rarely on the community blogs I frequent. It's primarily because I'm not the best writer in the world, and usually because someone has said what I want to say better than I...

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A-Rod

2008-09-03T02:07:40Z

A few weeks ago we went to a Yankees game (our last of the season, our last in the old Yankee Stadium). Unfortunately, the start of the game was delayed by a thunderstorm. We hadn't gone inside yet to meet our friends, and were standing under cove...

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One thing I'm sad about

2008-08-27T20:15:31Z

Is that at 38 and a half weeks of pregnancy, I still don't have an outty.

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First day off work

2008-08-25T18:47:38Z

I decided to take my leave from 2 weeks before my due date. This seems atypical for most of my colleagues, who work right up until the due date, or until the baby makes its presence known, whichever comes first. I am lucky in that I have a lot of ...

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Ha!

2008-08-20T19:04:28Z

And then yesterday there's a post on Ask Metafilter: Why is the Olympic medal table different in American media?

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Because it doesn't take a lot to make me smile

2008-08-18T17:34:24Z

On every website I look at for Olympics news, there is invariably a medals table. And, except in one instance, the medals table looks how I expect it to look: in order of gold medals. So China is first. But this is the way that I have always seen ...

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Salsa baby

2008-03-07T16:31:41Z

My friend Jan sent me this. Hee hee hee. and just so as to not make it two baby-related posts in a row... today's xkcd is particularly awesome for those of us who completely nerded out in middle school and high school (and onwards...)

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