Erik Novales

The Sam’s Club location down the street from me (of which we are members, due mainly to its proximity) recently opened a gas station. This is great for us — it’s essentially the same distance to the Sam’s Club gas station as it is to the other stations that, until now, we favored. And, naturally, [...]

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Apparently in order to become an executive or work in finance, your humor gland needs to be removed. This article about a prank caller who strikes during corporate earnings calls is doubly hilarious because none of the victims appear to comprehend the motivation for doing such a thing — that is, the joy in simply [...]

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According to Macy’s, that is. NEW! Waterford Crystal XLll Super Bowl Champion Football $185.00 Patriot perfection! Nineteen wins. Zero losses. Football history has been rewritten, and the New England Patriots have won it all! Commemorate every bone-crunching tackle and triumphant touchdown with this limited edition Waterford Crystal football. Let me just state for the record [...]

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A futures trader (apparently still in college) loses 40K, wiping out his account, over the long weekend on Dow futures. There are some YouTube videos on there as well, with a picture-in-picture of him superimposed over his trading software, swearing a lot. From an article linked to in comments elsewhere on his blog: From my [...]

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I was complaining late last year about how my site still wasn’t the number one search result for my name. Well, I think setting up a better default index page for my site made some kind of difference — eriknovales.com is now the #1 search result for my name. Yeehaw.

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I noticed today that the market took another pounding today, with the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ all giving up at least 2%. Those who are better acquainted with me will know that, for some time now, I have been convinced of the eventual collapse of the skyrocketing housing market. I do not have any real [...]

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I read an article this morning on the theft of customer data (including credit card data) from geeks.com, a site from which I had purchased a cheap graphics tablet on a lark about eight months ago. Of course, I immediately got concerned, and checked my credit cards for any suspicious charges, but found none. (The [...]

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So I finally got off of my duff and did an install of Drupal for the main portion of this site, replacing the old placeholder page that was there. Right now there isn’t much (any?) content on there, but I’ll be putting up some projects and other stuff soon, hopefully. I figure it’s better to [...]

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As an SMU alumnus, I feel compelled to comment on the hiring of June Jones as the new football coach. The football program has been in shambles ever since the NCAA death penalty was brought down on the Mustangs, and, personally, I feel that it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to rebuild the [...]

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Sapp tells Raiders he’s retiring, ending stellar 13-year career Sapp posted a two word message on his Web site, www.qbkilla.com, announcing his intention: “I’M DONE!” I’m sorry, but “QB Killa” sounds like one of the fake names I would use when filling a team up with max-ability-score players in an NFL video game…

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