Erik Novales

The hot and dry winds Cover my car in fine dust Washing is pointless

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The name reminds me of Fire Pro Wrestling, but Fire Joe Morgan is actually a site whose focus is tearing apart shoddy baseball writing and reporting. The authors are of the sabermetric school of baseball thought (that is, guided by objective statistical analysis), and bristle at constantly being stereotyped by the old guard as stats [...]

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I won my Yahoo bracket handily, picking 46 out of 63 games correctly. I only had two mistakes in the regional finals, and from that point onwards, my picks were on the money. This is a nice change from last year, when I did much worse. I find it interesting that the highest scoring brackets [...]

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The building sits right next to a freeway, protected only by a chain-link fence. The rear entrances to the building are connected to the parking lot by walkways that parallel the freeway. We would often speculate about the prospect of a car breaking through the fence and smashing into the building, which is part of [...]

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Check out this highly amusing PowerPoint presentation. You’ll have to click through to see each subsequent slide.

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While filling out my Yahoo NCAA bracket, I came across the following passage describing USC: Trojans, led by dynamite freshman O.J. Mayo (20.8 ppg), have driven short swords into opponent’s torsos on defense – 12th-most efficienct defense in D1

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That’s the byline of an interesting 60 Minutes piece on ‘corporate raider’ Carl Icahn (who was mentioned here before in relation to an attempted takeover of Marvel Comics). Regardless of whatever else you may think of his practices, his commentary on CEO pay in this country is spot on. It’s particularly disturbing when they try [...]

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The other day I received an interesting letter in the mail. It was an offer from Sprint (my former cell phone provider), offering me $10 for my 4+ year old Samsung A620. I’m not sure if there is some kind of government subsidy involved here (a brief search didn’t turn up anything that seemed relevant), [...]

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A resident in my apartment complex just had all of the tires off of his BMW M3 stolen overnight. The car was left up on cinderblocks — we saw him talking to the police earlier this afternoon. Not a good way to start your Saturday, although I was impressed — he seemed much calmer talking [...]

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Here’s the article. It’s nice to see my alma mater landing a prestigious institution, but, at the same time, I, uh, wish it were a different president. If you weren’t aware, Bush’s connection with SMU is via Laura Bush, who is an SMU alumnus.

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