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-- Thursday, February 27, 2003 --

There were a bunch of interesting stories today and yesterday that I think I need to bring up.

First and foremost, Mr. Rogers died this morning at the age of 74. I can't say I recall watching his show that much, but I know a lot of people grew up with him on the TV everyday. I do remember going to Williamsburgh in fifth grade on a field trip. I was the last one awake because I was forced to sleep on the floor after the beds were all taken. The teacher assigned to our room, a music teacher, decided the best way to get me up was to have the other kids in the room sing a loud, rousing rendition of "It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." When I woke up, there were four laughing heads staring me in the face. Kids from rooms on either side of our own told me that they'd heard them belting out PBS's classic tune. To this day, I'm still emotionally scarred from the event. At any rate, rest in peace, Fred.

Emmitt Smith has officially been run out of Dallas. We all saw it coming, it was just a matter of time before Jerry Jones decided to piss off the Dallas fan base again. Smith should have hung up his jersey after this season, but he says he's still got a few more seasons left in him. Apparently he hasn't seen the video of the games he played in this season. I hate Dallas as much as the next Redskins fan, but I'd still like to see Smith retire as a Cowboy. His career is over, but I still think Jones should have tried to find any means possible to keep Smith on the team.



Duke beat Geogia Tech yesterday to pull them even with the Terps for second place again. JJ Redick looked great out on the court: six of seven from beyond the arc for 19 points (the 19th point came on a free throw). The game was never really much of a contest but it was still another big win for Duke because the players are establishing themselves as a team that can play on the road too and and they're keeping themselves in the running for a number 1 one seed in the NCAA tournament. If Duke can make it through its last three games unscathed and win the ACC Tournament, I think they're a lock for a number one seed. Granted, that's a pretty big if. They still have to play UNC on the road and even though the Tarheels seem to have self-destructed, I'm worried they'll pull themselves together for one final big win.

In other news: Surprise! We cancelled acceptance calls again! BNC isn't ready to make them yet anyway, so I guess it works out, but I'd really like to get them out of the way and a lot of people are on edge about whether or not they made the cut. We probably won't have school tomorrow, but if we do, calls will go out. Since it's a a Friday night, probably a good half of the people we call won't even answer the phone, but hey, that's not our problem.

> KC 7:09 PM [89868967]
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Abby, Branden would be lucky to be the next Weedy Ford of the Los Sacapuntas. I really need to put that video up online somewhere.

Now back to

THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY

The prosecution would like to bring the attention of the jury back to Exhibit B. In this picture, KC's hand is positioned such that he is clearly getting ready to shoot a sticky web-like substance at the two evil-doers across the table. These two are clearly possessed by some demonic force as evidenced by the red glint in their eyes. One need only compare Exhibit B to Exhibit C to discover what truly is happening.

The prosecution would like to note that Spiderman is an upstanding citizen who would never lie about a crime he saw committed. That is why you, the jury, must find Chris Mulligan guilty.

In other news: Silver Chips Online phone calls were postponed once again. We would be making them tomorrow if there’s school, but Branden pointed out that it’s Magnet Arts Night so that means only something like 2% of the people who applied will be home at the time calls go out. We are so screwed.


> KC 12:12 AM [89819908]
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You must learn to read between the lines for the subtext:

HEAR the sounds of electric guitars being played with mediocrity!

except for Branden, who will in time be hailed as the next Jimmy Hendrix and wh already has a devoted following of groupies. God, I wish I was him.

SMELL the deoderant of a bazillio dorky kids packed into 10 sq. feet!

except for Branden, who recently received official word that he is, in fact, the coolest person on the planet and shall be hereby known as Sir Studly.

Duh.

> Abby 8:33 PM [89808460]
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Forsooth!

Branden, I totally figured out who you are, it just took me a minute (ok, a few days) to connect you with your last name. I blame society.

All should attend Magnet Arts Night
HEAR the sounds of electric guitars being played with mediocrity!
SMELL the deoderant of a bazillion dorky kids packed into 10 sq. feet!
SEE Abby's complete and utter incompetance at working a spotlight!

It's like the Superbowl, only without the super or the bowl.

> Abby 10:45 PM [89753825]
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Chris: Your point is invalid. The prosecution would like to direct the jury's attention to Exhibit A.

Yes, my friends, that is a picture of a dog humping someone's leg. Whose leg you ask? Why it's the leg of one Chris Mulligan. And, hey, by the way, you know who snapped that photo? Why Chris Mulligan did. That's right, Chris is compiling a softcore doggy porn magazine.

Now I ask you, would you believe a man who makes such filth? I didn't think so.

The prosecution rests.

> KC 9:24 PM [89749209]
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And lo! There was strife in Eden

Ah, but KC, if we're going to talk material pirating, how about stealing the idea to use biblical references as blog titles? Or even using blog titles at all? So, to use a technical term, booyah!

However, I do feel like a worthless shell of a human being because instead of going to El Salvador this summer to better the world of those less fortunate than myself, I plan to wile away the hours by testing just how long I can remain completely immobile before becoming paralyzed. On days when I feel particularly active, I might sit up. I also plan to eat a lot of hotdogs.

> Abby 9:15 PM [89748675]
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okay, I've decided to rebel - no guidelines for me and no mention of s*lver ch*ps whatsoever.

And since KC mentioned my protesting the war, I feel the need to defend my stance. Public protests have affected political change in the past and particularly in this situation where the global sentiment is against the President's agenda, I feel that enough powerful protests, in conjunction with other factors, can have some effect - http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/ . Besides, I'll get too fed up with the fucked up politics of this nation if I don't speak out - I need to feel like I'm doing something at least to maintain my own sanity.

On a more positive note, I'm going to El Salvador for 2 weeks this summer to do a service project - will be living with a family in a rural town and am excited. don't know how I'm going to survive the rest of the school year, but at least we have spring break...


> Anonymous 12:14 AM [89693194]
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Thou shalt not take my stuff

I forgot to mention that the "guidelines" idea is copyrighted. Abby, Chris, I'm afraid you both owe me royalties.

Abby, you pay double: I own two properties and you landed on both of them. The "in other news" catch phrase is also mine. Pay up or go to jail . . . do not pass go, do not collect $200. I also own three out of the four railroads.

In other news: Duke reached number five in the Coaches Poll and six in the AP Poll . . . number two seed, here we come.



> KC 12:03 AM [89692666]
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In the beginning there was nothing. And then...

My guidelines, which I will violate whenever I damn well feel like it:
1. I will not talk about Fight Club.
2. I will not talk about Fight Club.
3. I will not join Chris' prostitution ring, though I may volunteer other people of my acquaintance into Chris' prostitution ring.
4. I will not exceed four guidelines.
5. The words "college" and "basketball" will never be mentioned within the same paragraph unless it be to shamelessly mock my peers.

In other news, my editors at the glorious Silver Chips have cut 400 words from my story. Bastards.

> Abby 11:42 PM [89691533]
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For those of you who have just stumbled across this blog, I appologize profusely for the recent increase in dork factor due in large part to the two pictures posted below. Don't worry, the situation will be rectified. I'll find a way to ground this thing somehow . . . QUICK! Think about college basketball!

There, I've redeemed this entire site. Chris, you can thank me later.

For the manly men out there who still feel they have to recover more masculinity after viewing Mulligan's pictures, worry not. Staring at a beautiful woman is a sure-fire cure.

Oh, by the way, if you're a PC user an you're really interested in buying a new keyboard, I suggest this one . . .

> KC 10:54 PM [89688762]
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Random Links

All right, time to set you up with a couple links that I've found totally by accident or stumbled on when I was looking for something else.

First up is Cannonballs. There was an old DOS game where you controlled an ape and hurled explosive bananas at your opponent while standing on top of random buildings. If you have any idea what I'm talking about, than you'll understand Cannonballs. It's kind of like the explosive banana wielding ape game except in 3D and with a bunch (har!) more options. It's entertaining for a while and best of all, it's free. It's a big download and it probably won't run on anything less than a DSL connection. Note: The actual name of the game is Cannonballs! with the exclamation point. To me, adding punctuation to the end of the name of a product or company (Yahoo!) is up there, stupidity-wise, with people who pronounce "nuclear" nucular.

If you're interested in college basketball, check out this WKU fan's site. He updates RPI data pretty frequently so if you want to keep track of where your team stands, it's a good place to look.

> KC 5:21 PM [89669446]
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I spent another Friday night playing Risk. Yes, my social life has really hit the skids, though, to my credit, I did start the night off doing something else that eventually fell through.

I'm not going to go into detail about who was there and what was said because I don't want to inadvertently turn this into a diary where I make commentary on all of my friends. I don't think a public writing area is the place bitch about who you hate and gossip about who your latest crushes are. The idiots who use blogs to divulge their innermost thoughts and feelings are trying too hard. They're the type of people that in real life are so melodramatic it makes you want to throw up everything you've ever eaten.

So here are my ground rules:
1. I will not use this blog as a forum for spewing deep, philosophical bull shit. I mean, social commentary is ok, but there's a certain line that's easy to cross wherein it's apparent to everyone you're just being fake.
2. I will never, under any circumstances, use this blog to write about anything serious with regard to my personal life. I'm not going to discuss my problems on this thing unless they're trivial. Example of a serious problem: I'm suicidal. This is a cry for help. Example of a not-so-serious problem: I stepped in dog shit and I really don't want to have to clean my shoes.
3. I will not use this site as a front for a prostitution ring. I'm firmly commited to this one. I also won't use it to peddle drugs to kids.

Well that's about it for now.

> KC 12:28 AM [89537987]
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Ok, I just found out Dave Barry has a blog. If he has one, it must be cool. It's part of his official site, but I wonder if he actually writes it himself or if he pays someone to do it for him. Don't get me wrong, I love Dave Barry. In fact, some day, I'm going to grow up to be just like him --- no, I won't win the pulitzer. I'm thinking more along these lines: one day I'll be middle-aged and gaining weight just like him.

Seriously though, I do think it would be cool to have my own humor column. Wait! That's right! I have one! (::KC's humor column::)

In other news: Maya went downtown to protest the war in Iraq. Hey, I'm against it, but at this juncture I can't see the point in bothering to protest. It's already too late. Bush is movin' on up to the east hemisphere and that's that it seems. He wants peace. HA!

> KC 1:46 PM [89510378]
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Wow. The size of this blog has already tripled over the course of its first night.

Why in God's name am I still awake?

> KC 2:46 AM [89484933]
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well, kc wants me to post something - so here goes.

have a silver chips article to write, which sucks for me. newspaper comes above all else and we can power through this blizzard to come out on time... oh boy.

ski trip was good - would rather be at wisp than at my computer trying to articulate just why I hate testing... and that's all for now.

> Anonymous 2:03 AM [89483574]
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Well, here's my blog. I'm putting this up because I'm bored out of my mind and I've been stuck in my house for the last 5 days or so thanks to THE BLIZZARD OF 2003. No reason that's in capitals, just felt it should be.

Anyway, as my editor so aptly put it, "FUCK THE NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION."

We here at Silver Chips Online have been screwed yet again. The Pacemaker Finalists were announced and we were absent from the list. Beaten out by nice looking sites that haven't updated in months. A few of the papers are good and deserve to be there. The rest got there are on looks alone and that, pure and simple, is bull shit. I've lost all respect for the organization. The people who judge the award must be old fucktards who don't know what it means to be a good online paper. Look at the Washington Post's site. It's everything a good online publication should be. It isn't just layout that makes or breaks an online paper as they seem to think over at NSPA. You have to have frequent, quality updates. That's something we've always valued. That's something we've always done well. Maybe we aren't the best online paper out there, but we're better than most of the finalists on that list. We're one of the most popular according to Yahoo! so we must be doing something right.

All right, that's the end of my venting. I'm taking over as editor-in-chief next year so I have to prove I'm passionate about this stuff every once in a while.

In other news: Duke beat Maryland. Words cannot express the joy i felt after the Blue Devils won that game. It moved them into a tie for second place, but more importantly, it did wonders for the team's confidence and set them back on the right track. After that bull shit loss to Wake Forest in double OT, they needed a positive. They finally won a road game, beating a decent team in Virginia, and then turned around to punch the Terps in the mouth at Cameron. JJ may also have snapped the funk he's been in. Watch out for the Blue Devils in March. They have a good shot at making it to the Sweet 16 yet again.

Well, that's all I can think to write about for now. Gnight.

> KC 12:35 AM [89480001]
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