tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87219892011-04-22T03:43:35.967+02:00I'm back, wordier and with more grammatical mistakes than ever...1/2Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12656152173383572404noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721989.post-1133531386742067292005-12-02T14:25:00.000+01:002005-12-02T14:49:46.793+01:00

There's no good reason for the title of this post, as I'm just bored and thought I'd jot a few things down. Call it an exercise in free writing, or maybe its just babbling. We'll see.Anyway, the title comes from the immortal Dan Patrick - Keith Olbermann Sportscenter days on ESPN, when they anchored the show before Keith bolted for more money and selling out on Fox and Dan suddenly became ESPN's

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I started bringing some mp3s into work to play into headphones. It helps kill the tedium and even helps me concentrate when I actually have something to do. Right no I have a modest 20 or so albums on my work computer (as opposed to the gigs and gigs of music I have at home and the 170 or so CDs that I actually bought). Last night I was looking through my files wonder what music to take to work,

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Tonight's the night! Yup, the second leg of the Czech Republic vs. Norway qualifier at home. to recap, the Czechs won in Oslo 1-0, meaning any win or tie sees the Czech advance to the World Cup final tournament in Germany next summer. The Norwegians would have to win by at least a score of 2-1, 3-2, 4-3, etc. in order to advance on a greater number of away goals.Regular Czech team captain Tomáš

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently released a study of the top universities in the world. I gotta say that I was surprised and proud that my alma mater, Cornell, came in at number 12. On the other hand, if my school was so good, how come I've had a string of lousy jobs?See the entire list of results and methodology here:http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005TOP500list.htmOn a similar note,

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Say the title of this post in the creepy voice from Poltergeist. Yep, winter has returned to Central Europe. Now, if you're in Russia, Siberia or the extreme northern Midwest, stop reading right now, because I have nothing to complain about in comparison with you.Winter in Prague, is, without a doubt, miserable. The first thing you notice is not necessarily the cold, but the lack of light. For

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Some of you may have noticed that I'm partial to John McCain. Though I lean to the left on many issues, at a point when America is sorely divided into red and blue, the only person I see as a uniter is the Senator from Arizona. He is undoubtedly a war hero (until the POWs for Truth start raising their heads), he has gobs of integrity, he is a reformer that can reach across the aisle. He has the

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Norway 0 - Czech Republic 1Whew... More relief than joy in this result. The game was played on a pitch that looked more like a beach volleyball ground that a football field. This should have helped the Norwegians with their height advantage and heading ability. However, the field came back to bite them in the ass the defender guarding Vladimír Šmicer slipped and fell in the box just a Karel

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Nedvěd left the national team after the EURO in kind of a funk and he kept denying rumors about a return to the team. He kept saying that he wasn't coming back, then he would hint that he would, then a couple of months ago he said there was no way he was coming back after national side coach Karel Brückner said he wasn't going to beg any players to play; a move that pissed off most people who

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Big game coming up tomorrow. The Czech Republic plays Norway in the first leg of their World Cup Qualifier Playoff.Basically, the process goes like this: All European teams are divided into eight groups that play a round-robin qualifying tournament over two years, the group winner automatically qualifies for the Big Dance in Germany next summer. All the teams that finish second then play a home

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Read this on Yahoo news today:First of all, I still wonder how people can still trust this guy. Even my parents have started calling him "jelimánek," which is the Czech equivalent of "dumb little boy who doesn't know any better." Even the Republicans are headed for the high ground trying to avoid being caught in the floodwaters building around this presidency. Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum

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I had to change my settings and allow only registered users to comment because I was getting spam in comments. Yes, fucking spam in comments! Blogger, what's up wit' dat?

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So this year's elections, which in the end mean didley squat, were won by the Democrats. Let me ask you something, if you voted for Bush last year, how did you not know he would screw up everything he touched? I've talked about this before, but not only is he not the sharpest tool in the shed, he's also a bible-thumping cretin. How did you not know he would try to put a crony on the Supreme Court

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http://www.local6.com/news/5278661/detail.htmlCheerleaders, bathrooms, lesbian sex.....I swear this is the stuff porn films are made of, except in a porn film the entire line of girls waiting to go to the loo would end up daisy chaining.

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Yes I'm coming back to the blog. I've been away for sometime during which almost nothing changed in my life. Let's see, I only got married, went on a honeymoon to Egypt, changed jobs, did some traveling over weekends, discovered that my new job sucks more than my old job, signed a mortgage, cured cancer, solved the fuel crisis, visited Belgium, won a Nobel Prize and clipped my toenails. Alright,

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All apologies...Yes I have not kept up with the blog and I have not answered my e-mail. I am a loser.On the other hand, I have had something like seven job interviews, one translation job after another, I've been applying for not one but two mortgages and I've been organizing my upcoming wedding.These are all things that have kept me relatively off line for the last couple of weeks. Hopefully,

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The Virgin Suicides are on TV right now.... just a few thoughts on this one.... How did people not notice Sophia Coppola's talent? Kirsten Dunst.... Get the mental picture... ommygodisshefuckinghot! Josh Hartnett is damn good as the steotypical cool guy, ain't he? I can see why my fiancee thinks he's the shit. James Woods - much maligned Is this oficially the last film Kathleen Turner made

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Not only did I not sleep well last night, which means that today I'm really dull, but the first thing I see this morning when I come into work is an e-mail from my boss scolding me... What, pray tell, was she scolding me for? Well, it seems that because my place of work has always referred to the Nazi concentration camp commonly known as Auschwitz, as Oswiecim, the name of the Polish village

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Alright, I’ll admit it. I am so tired from getting up for the morning shift this week that I have absolutely no idea what to write about.For a while, I though about writing about the state of mind where I just walk through the day without actually thinking too much, but that’s not an accutrate description of what happens. It’s not that I don’t think. It’s something different.See, I don’t need to

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I've been on the interview circuit lately. No, not televised interviews, but I'm sure the offers from Oprah, Conan and my personal favorite, Bill Maher, are just over the bend, as soon as they get a whiff of my blog. Actually it's job interviews I'm talking about. I've actually come to enjoy the job interview as of late, but all of them have had one major flaw: I haven't gotten a new job yet.

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So imagine this. I spent an hour today writing this long diatribe on my view of Bush and why I dislike him and his administration. This was ballsy writing. I mean, I was shooting one factoid after another, adding pop-culture quotes that even Schinder would be proud of, busting out links to back-up my claims, and I was even googling research on another browser and clicking back and forth. I

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Yes I know I haven't written in almost a month. Yes, I realize that this is not a good thing to do. Alright, I'll get back to writing. BTW: Thank you to all those who complained that I haven't written. It really does make me feel good to know people are actually reading what I write. Also, to those who I haven't returned e-mail with recently, the excuse is almost the same as the blog...

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Yes we finally did it. We signed a letter of intent on the apartment. Meaning that for 3.5 million crowns (give or take a few thousand), we have a place that will be built and finished in August of 2006. This is the biggest decision I think we’ve ever made. Seriously, this means that we will probably be in debt all our lives. Which, on the other hand, is basically par for the course in the

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Writing has come hard of late... I don't want to call it writer's block, because I'm not really a writer, but I have been having trouble coming up with viable topics. I may have jumped the shark after the dishes entry and its all gone down hill from their... In other words, it's time for a random thoughts entry... Sometimes, it's incredibly refreshing to hear some good old-fashioned garage band

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I'm working my first weekend shift in a while... and the great thing is it's a great sports weekend, meaning the TV in the office is on all time. What does a great sports weekend mean to me, living in the heart of Europe... It's the winter park! We start the day with alpine skiing (think going down a mountain, gates, speed, crashes). Bode finished fourth and kept his lead in both the downhill

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... is all that's left of professional hockey in the U.S. Meanwhile, this could have been the season that hockey could have made a huge splash, moving up in popularity and asserting itself among the most popular spectators sports in the world. Instead, the NHL is in a coma and slipping away with each pasding day. When, or should I say if, it returns, it's populairty will be on the level of

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Actually, I won't wax philosophical on the Greatest Rock Band of My Youth, because there isn't a whole lot of philosophy behind Axl & crew. The band had no message; just good, straightforward rockin' tunes that was a welcome wake-up call when compared to the hairspray rock bands that came before them (which, by the way, my brother, a rather accomplished musician in his own right, still loves. He

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Once again I tried to cheat the bitch that is Mother Nature. I'm on the morning shift this week, meaning that I have to get up at 6 a.m., a time that all of you will agree with me is positively inhumane. Despite knowing that I have to get up this early, I once again tried to cheat Mother Nature by staying out late and having a few drinks with my friends. Woe is tha man who does not hold the

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You've all been there. Sunday night and the only thing you can think about is the week ahead of you: how much work you have and how you'll be able to work it all in when you know that you'll get more during the course of the week. When you're at school, this is not a big deal. You're still relatively free and going to class is often optional. When you join the "real world," or as I should say,

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To those celebrating this week: Happy Thanksgiving. To those not celebrating, well, at least you don't have to eat stuffing and dry Turkey. I wanted to complete my sports series, but things have been so busy the last couple of days, I've barely had time to do the things I need to, so I didn't get a chance to get the things I wanted to do... Oh well. I did have a few thoughts over the last

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Like I said, English football fans have turned their sport around and have made the Premiership the best football league in Europe. No I know what most of you are thinking. English football fans are the most revolting and unruly mob of low lifes ever to walk the planet. That may have been true in the 1980's, but since then, the sport has gone through a transformation and the fans have been an

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Somewhere between what happened with Ron Artest, the Pistons and the Pacers in Detriot last Friday, and corporate interests and TV rights and all of the business that surrounds professional sports today, society has fogotten what sports is about. Professional sports has grown out of our desire as humans to watch others excel doing activities that we, the regular working Joe, cannot. We've

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Up to now, all my posts have been hastily written from work, where my time online is limited according to the volume of news that is going through the desk. However, I brought home a new computer last week and right now, I am writing from home for the first time. This means that several changes will be coming to the blog. First of all, the frequency of posts will go up. I now will be able to

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It's over. The reality show was over before it began. Though I scored in the "above average" range of Huge Consultant Company Inc.'s aptitude test, I have been neged, denied and generally told to fuck off. I scored all eights and sevens on the test, which was on a 1-9 scale, nine being the highest, and I was told that despite my high socres, the company chose not to advance me to the next round.

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We had a couple of friends over for dinner last night... Afterwards, I realized the true moment that a person becomes and adult. It's not when you leave college and get a real job, or when you buy your first house or car and it's definitely not getting married or having a child. You get close when you start having other couples over for dinner, but that still more often than not is an excuse to

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Assesment center... It sounds creepy doesn't it... like out of an Ayn Rand novel. So I go to this thing. A total of 15 people in a small room with no air circulation... We sit there, everyone in suits except for one dude in jeans, and then this tall blond with a huge horse-like mouth and gums comes in and starts describing the test (!) procedures with us. Get this: She reads the instructions out

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Yesterday, I dusted off the old three piece suit (actually I bought it this summer, most expensive peice of clothing I have ever owned except for my beloved fur-lined leather coat) and went to a job interview with Huge Consulting Company Inc. The interview took place in one of the most posh buidlings in Prague with a view of the Castle, River and city center. Basically, this was like having an

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Yes I actually care about the results of the election, if only for the fact that I want the rest of the world to know that not all Americans like GWB. Having been living in Europe, I've run into more anti-Americanism, some of it irrational, some of it stupid and some of it, well, justified, to just want a change. What happens? The Republican Party, the party I happen to be a member of, wins

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Alright, this is the chance I have to admit that I probably have a dirnking problem. Not a real big one, but definitely one that probably should be dealt with. What happens is I stay up late watching TV... not that there's anyhting on, just because I like to flip the chancnels, usually going from CNN, to Eurosport, to any music channel and back again, adding any channels with soft-core porn,

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So it was my birthday on Thursday. As birthdays go, it was pretty miserable. Let me tell you why: there was nothing extraordinary about it. Just a regular day. As I had the afternoon shift at work, I woke up around nine and took Bart around the block. I stoppd in the corner store for breakfast and the paper. Now here we had an up point, because the corner store had jelly doughnuts. Every day they

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Alright, I've been planning to set up a blog for months. Not only have I've been planning to do it, I've been slowly forming the ideas I want to put down and publish in my head, carefully setting each word and phrase into contexts, making up the great truths that I want to publish and share with the world, which undoubtably everyone will want to read, relish and learn that they can't live without

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