8/26    "Pastafarian student allowed to wear pasta strainer on head for
        driver's license photo"
        http://www.csua.org/u/112h (news.yahoo.com)
        R'amen.
        \_ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pastafarian-recognized-texas-id-article-1.1436608
           With photos.
	...

3/29    Indiana, racist?
        http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/indiana-student-sparks-outrage-video-mocking-asians-article-1.1282920
        \_ Everyone is racist. Even you, I bet.
           \_ heil hitler!
	...

2/7     This is how NRA can claim that it represents 4.5 million members.
        http://www.csua.org/u/z6r (news.yahoo.com)
        \_ Lots of local clubs (for all sorts of activities) require their
           members to join a national organization for legal and insurance
           purposes.  There's nothing sinister here.
	...

12/18   "NRA member Sen. Manchin says Newtown shooting should open assault
        weapons debate" http://www.csua.org/u/ypo
        '"The massacre of so many innocent children has changed -- has changed
        America. We've never seen this happen,"'  Was this guy in a cave during
        the Columbine High massacre?
        \_ Don't keep your hopes high, though.  It'll just be same-o same-o.
	...

10/19   Do you think Obama will have to send in troops to put down rioting
        Southern Whites after the election?
        http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/race/100262race-ra.html
        \_ south = stupid
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5/9     If U.S. doesn't do assissination, then what do you call
        Operation Neptune Spear aka "Mission Kill Bin Laden"?
        \_ I think theoretically the difference is that the goal of one is
           "kill him/her", while the goal of the other is "capture him/her,
           and don't hestitate to shoot with the possibly of killing if he/she
           and don't hesitate to shoot with the possibly of killing if he/she
	...

1/28    "China's CCTV news report was 'Top Gun' scene"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/chinamediamilitaryfilmoffbeat
        'BEIJING (AFP) . China's state broadcaster is facing questions after
        Internet users spotted that footage in a report on air force
        manoeuvres in a national newscast was taken from the 1980s Hollywood
        film "Top Gun".'
	...

5/26    "China could join moves to sanction North Korea"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100526/ap_on_re_as/as_clinton_south_korea
        How did Hillary manage to do that when we're also asking China to
        concede on the economic front at the same time?
         \_ China doesn't want NK to implode. NK is a buffer between SK and
            China, or in other words a large buffer between a strong US ally and
	...

9/30    China October 1st national day parade:
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091001/wl_nm/us_china_anniversary
        "The soldiers goose-stepping past Tiananmen Square at exactly 116
        steps a minute carried the message that this Party knows how to run a
        show -- and a huge, restive country."
        1. What's the significance of the speed 116/min ?
	...

7/28    Cougars are swapping advice on dating young men:
        http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/national-single-cougars-convention-firstever-features-miss-cougar-america-contest-august-28-2009-in-palo-alto-ca-107209.php
        \_ Why didn't they have "cougars" when I was 21?
           \_ there have been cougars since the dawn of mankind, which is
              1970. Dustin Hoffman and Mrs. Robinson. Your problem was that
              the cougars talked to each other, and they agreed that you
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2/4     UCB 19th in private donations for 2009 behind #1 Stanford and #9 UCLA.
        http://tinyurl.com/yjojbhe (LA Times)
        List of Top 20: http://tinyurl.com/y8n3nye (Wall Street Journal)
        \_ advice to UCB fundraiser committee: Ask not how you can
           get more donations. Ask why you are not getting donations.
        \_ why the fuck should i donate to a place that told me my undergrad
	...

12/26   Mail is being retired, but will mail still be forwarded if we have
        a .forward? Also, _why_ is mail being retired?
        \_ one more yreason i only hire stanford grads from now on
           \_ Like you have any real hiring decision power.
        \_ don't recall seeing a discussion on this.  it would be nice if mail
           service remains.
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9/23    I'm in grad school part time, and the professor I was trying to get
        to advise me just sent me "What you suggest (remote, part-time, topic
        formulation) doesn't fit my advising style..."  Does anyone know
        what "topic formulation" might mean in this context?  I come with
        funding from work, but the topics I can choose are somewhat limited.
        Could be a reference to that...
	...

8/10    Check this out. I went to Google Maps, typed in Pasadena then Animal Shelter.
        The first few items are "Caltech Housing", for students. I tried this for
        other cities like Berkeley and got real animal shelters. Is this some kind
        of lame geek joke from Caltech fraternity students?
        \_ Learn to format properly. Caltech doesn't really have fraternities,
           they have "houses" which are sort of like dorms, co-ops and frats
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