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Oct 18, 2010, 5:00 pm
Destiny or happenstance and serendipity? Fate or many lives bouncing into and off-of each other? Wouldn’t it comforting to know a divine spirit looks upon us, guiding our moves and creating a reason for the events in our lives?
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Oct 13, 2010, 11:07 am
Looking for a job when you’re unemployed is always a difficult challenge. When you seek a job while you’re employed, it’s not a full time endeavor and you’re free to pick and choose those jobs for which you’re truly interested - usually to advance in your career. ... Comment - Like
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Oct 11, 2010, 8:33 am
One of the most intuitive aspects of the game of baseball is the concept of ‘Batting Average.’ It’s as simple and intuitive as the game itself: Number of Hits divided by the number of At-Bats. It’s a serviceable construct of measuring a batters’ hitting prow... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2010, 6:07 pm
How many ways are there to score in the National Football League? There are 4-ways to score in football: a touchdown, field goal, safety, and the extra-point/2-point conversion after a touchdown. The field goal is straight forward. The safety requires the defense downing the offens... Comment - Like
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Oct 9, 2010, 8:56 pm
Though relatively unheralded in baseball lore, the unassisted triple play (UTP) is a far more rare occurrence than the perfect game. There have been 20-perfect games in the history of professional baseball - and as anyone who was paying attention to this year’s baseball season, we know A... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2010, 11:57 pm
The rain has been relentlessly coming down for the better part of the week here in New England. The sole retreat from the misery was Monday’s Dolphins/Patriots tilt, and even then it was a one of those schizophrenic sorts of feelings - the teams seemed like they were in hand-to-hand tren... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2010, 10:28 pm
I’m not usually sensitive to issues of subliminal messages in media. I tend to look at such critiques as “conspiracy theories” or looking at something that just isn’t there. Perhaps largely because I can’t see how it would be of benefit to the media outlet, ... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2010, 11:31 pm
Did you know that if you show up in Kenmore Square at 4:30 or so for a 7:05 game at Fenway, you can park for literally $1.50. If you’re willing to walk over the BU bridge, which really isn’t that much of a walk, you can get a nice spot at a realistic rate. $0.25 for 15 minute... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2010, 1:00 am
Sometimes the day just seems interminable. Seconds feel like minutes. Mind-numbingly so. Then other times time can just slip by unnoticed. A year can pass almost without notice. I wake up and look at my reflection in the mirror - more gray hair today than yesterday...or... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2010, 1:01 am
I’m one of those people who like playing with technology. It doesn’t much matter what it is - I love to play with gadgets. For my 40th birthday, I was given an iPod Touch with a massive memory. Several years before, I’d ripped my entire collection of CD’s to... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2010, 12:13 am
Life is kind of funny sometimes. One day you’re up and feeling good. The next you’re picking up cans and asking strangers for cigarette butts. More often than not, the karma comes back around and you’re back on the upswing again....either that or you’ve got really... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2010, 1:44 am
The 2010 NFL Football season kicked off with the Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints narrowly defeating their NFC title game opponents, the Minnesota Vikings. At the conclusion of this season, there will be a Super Bowl XLV Champion crowned in Dallas. This may be the last Super Bowl C... Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2010, 1:06 am
Life has a way of creeping up on you. John Lennon famously said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” How true indeed. One December evening in 1980, he was shot for no apparent reason a few months after his 40th birthday. Makes one won... Comment - Like
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Jul 21, 2010, 8:18 am
When kids come home from college over the Thanksgiving break of their Freshman year, their families typically notice a most interesting thing has changed - their clothes don’t seem to fit too well, usually because of the additional heat in the dryer of course. It seems that over the last... Comment - Like
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Jun 5, 2010, 12:10 am
We've now all had some 24 or more hours to digest the catastrophe that should have been baseball's 21st perfect game. We've heard the calls for instant replay grow louder. We've heard umpire Jim Joyce apologize for having blown the call. We've s... Comment - Like
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May 17, 2010, 12:54 am
There has not been a great wealth of writing done here as of late. Sometimes I just find it hard to pull together enough emotional energy to put more than 140-characters together with which to communicate to the outside world. Today is a little different and this is an actual blog entry.... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2010, 10:18 pm
I'm confident that we as a society are addicted to the "pharmacology model" of behavior and addicted to the idea that prescriptions can cure anything that ails. Have a cold? Take some Sudafed. Have a headache? Take some Tylenol. Can't live up to your significant... Comment - Like
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Apr 23, 2010, 2:07 pm
In 1970, the Vietnam war was in full swing. The military was not, as it is today, an all-volunteer service. Men were selected for enlistment via a draft. In December 1969, Days of the month were loaded into a container and drawn out. September 14 was the first date drawn and ... Comment - Like
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Apr 16, 2010, 9:38 pm
First things first, my friends. The Tavern has been newly outfitted with a whirlpool tub in the lobby. Yessir. We go high class here. In the newest installment of what kind of random destruction has Mo caused, we find the Lowes delivery people screwing the pooch on my contrac... Comment - Like
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Apr 16, 2010, 9:33 pm
It is 10 PM on April 15 and I'm sitting on the phone trying to get my 2008 Adjusted Gross Income from the IRS. Now, you'd think I'd have remembered the nice round $100, but it slipped my mind. So, after 20 minutes of waiting and listening to some sickening musak, it occurred ... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 8:55 am
Good Friday. In the Christian tradition, this is the celebration of the crucifixion of Christ, albeit somewhat oddly named. Growing up in the Catholic church, what Good Friday really meant for me was that we weren't necessarily expected to keep eating fish and "holy cow!" the Easter ... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2010, 1:00 am
So, no sooner have I started to write again, I'm incapacitated. Yes, the tools of the author came unavailable to me - it seems that while I suffered no nerve damage in my recent encounter with a creative way to hurt myself and as such this is good, I did sever a tendon. Soo... Comment - Like
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Jan 4, 2010, 10:57 pm
The NFL playoffs have arrived - and it is to my great thanks that my team is among the 12 still alive. It's been an interesting year in the NFL - unlike many other years, so few teams have seemed to step forth as contenders. This year focus has seemingly been on the Colts, ... Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2010, 10:06 am
It's been a while since I updated you on any sort of self injurious behavior or happenings. It seems that I've been relatively free of those creative ways to hurt myself as of late. That said, however, I have recently found a much different way to hurt myself. You see... Comment - Like
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Jan 2, 2010, 10:58 am
I'm having a hard time reconciling the idea that it's not just new years', but a new DECADE. Ten years since the turn of the 1900's to the 2000's. One of my earliest elementary school memories is my first grade teacher asking us where we thought we would be in the yea... Comment - Like
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Dec 28, 2009, 10:19 pm
No one likes a quitter and I think most people want to earn what they get. That's why people like "The Donald" Trump get under our skin - people who haven't earned what they have bother us. I think the only thing that bothers us more than that guy who hasn't earned what they&... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
It's good to know that although we grow older - 40 years old last month - our eternal essence doesn't change. Mo remains Mo.
I'm feeling good about myself and my life. I've got growing motivation - actively going about my life, doing some things around the hous... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
And we're mere moments away from the most anticipated - most hyped - single day sporting events in our culture. The Super Bowl. Nothing captures the American consciousness like the NFL Championship game. Parties. Commercials. All-hang-out football. Football for the uninitiated. Football f... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The Super Bowl is played every year in a neutral site chosen several years in advance. There has never been a Super Bowl played in which one of the participants called that site their home stadium. This year, the game will be played in Miami's Sun Life Stadium, home of the Miami... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Sometimes things work out. Sometimes not. This is a truism of our lives, to be sure, but in this case I have to say the universe must've been paying attention to Old Mo.
Sometimes, pipes just burst or a discharge hose erupts. People have even be... Comment - Like
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