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An Inconvenient Truth 1033

There's a movie teaser line that you may have seen recently, that goes like this: "What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?" The answer is "I'd try." The teaser's actually for another movie, but that's the story that's told in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth": it starts with a man who, after talking with scientists and senators, can't get anyone to listen to what he thinks is the most important thing in the world. It comes out on DVD today.

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Journal Journal: The Death of the BCS? 3

Is this the year that we finally witness the death of the BCS?

After Rutgers beat formerly undefeated Louisville last night the natural order of Div-I college football is at risk. The national championship should have been decided when an undefeated Louisville was faced the undefeated winner of the Michigan-Ohio State game. Louisville now has their first loss, and now six or seven teams can argue that, at one loss, they should be the challenger for the title.

Yahoo!

Journal Journal: Sick and Tired of Political JEs 12

I'm sick and tired of all your politics Journal Entries. You all complain about the lying, cheating, negative campaigning, smearing, etc etc etc. And you all want to live in the town of Gum Drop Falls, near Chocolate Lake, and everyone is good and decent and honest.

AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!!

I'll let you in on a big secret. To some degree they are all crooks. And so are we.

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Journal Journal: Congrats, Tigers 2

Here is the rule that everyone should remember:

Unless there is a severe flaw in some other part of their game, the team that pitches better will win.

The Tigers have no flaws, and they simply pitched better. Wang and Mussina are a nice pair but I don't have anyone I feel good about 3 through 5 and I don't have any confidence in my relievers short of Rivera.

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Journal Journal: [Baseball] Is there a better all-around player? 4

Mr. November showed up again tonight. He's a relatively quiet guy - such that it baffles the mind to think how the average spoiled star would behave with his numbers.

After ten years, it is time that we can appropriately ask "Is he the greatest of his generation? Is he on par with the greatest of all time?

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Journal Journal: For StB: Some practical Java info... 1

Sam, the following are some things that I remember confusing lots of beginners and didn't seem to be covered very well it lots of books. I'd suggest trying to wrap your head around this as early as possible.

Packages

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Journal Journal: Brother Sam... 3

how was school? Your first day of the new class was a few days ago, right?
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Journal Journal: An open letter to Tigers fans 3

I don't believe my team (NY Yankees) has a realistic chance right now, so I don't have a dog in this race...

Would you actually feel good about putting the ball in All Star starting pitcher Kenny Rogers' hands in a critical playoff situation, or do you sometimes wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat and an overwhelming feeling of dread?

If you do feel confident, please explain why, given his 0-3, 8.85 era in 9 playoff appearances record.

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Journal Journal: Dear Detroit Airport 5

There is this amazing family of designs that is used successfuly at lots of major airports. It is based on arranging the gates in circles or snowflake patterns. That way when you need to change planes, you don't have to walk miles to get from one gate to another.

Please look into it.

That is all,
RevMike

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Journal Journal: Yargg!! Another one for Sam 4

Another guy on my team is having trouble with jMeter. jMeter is a open source testing program which we were using to simulate various load conditions on our software. His core skills don't include Java, so I went to help him out.

We kept getting java.lang.OutOfMemory exceptions while trying to run various test scripts. The cases that were triggering it were bigger cases, but nothing absurdly big.

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Journal Journal: So uncool I'm cool 6

I finally purchased the little adapter so that I can use my Treo 650 as an MP3 player. I downloaded PocketTunes, which is a fantastic little app, loaded up my memory card, and now I'm listening.

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