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My picks for NFL week 6
I’m in a football pool with some family. I’ve been logging my progress so far– here’s the latest update. Last week: 10-4 Summary:Last week was just a plain-old off week…not much to report. I came in second again, for the third straight week and fourth overall, so I hold onto a close second in the…
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My picks for NFL week 5
So I’m in a football pool with some family. I’ve been logging my progress so far– here’s the latest update. Last week: 10-4 Last week, I looked smart taking New England (my team) and Houston, two “upsets” that put me tied with my brother-in-law. It all came down to Seattle vs. Chicago for us, I…
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My picks for NFL week 4
Here are my picks for the upcoming week 4 of the NFL season. Last week: 6-8 (yikes- how embarassing!) Season to date: 27-16 – Good for 62% Atlanta Buffalo Dallas Kansas City NY Jets Carolina San Diego Houston St. Louis New England Cleveland Jacksonville Seattle Philadelphia (37) Want to supply your own? Leave them in…
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Mobile phone stats, 2 years later
Last year at this time, I reflected on my first anniversary of owning my mobile phone by providing some usage stats. Now that I’ve owned the phone for two years, I thought it might be fun to compile the stats for this past year (2005-2006) and then compare them to last year’s. Here we go:…
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Exposing the hecklers
Writing in The New York Times over the weekend, Jennifer Senior lays absolute waste to Louis Lapham’s new book, Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration, and in the process makes a truly fascinating and satisfying point about not just Lapham, but about a sad majority of President Bush’s harshest…
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Presenting a mobile edition of jasonclarke.org
I’m pleased to announce the launch of mobile.jasonclarke.org, the mobile-friendly edition of this very website. The mobile market has taken some pretty signifigant leaps over the past year and I think it will break out in an even bigger way in 2007. That’s why I’m getting the jump today in experimenting with the process, benefits,…
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Some books I’ve read recently
Some books I’ve read lately, in approximate reverse chronological order: Starlet, Robert B. Parker – 4 out of 5 stars My favorite Spenser novel so far. Again, a slow start builds to a thrilling, surprising, and organic conclusion. The fun of Spenser, combined with the constant literarly jabs, plus a usable plot make this an…
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A new start for Moorelies.com
Over at ActiveTopic, my hobbyist blog network site, I’ve announced a new direction for Moorelies.com, the site that I founded and ran from April 2003 through today. Today, I made the decision to send off one of my oldest friends. Moorelies.com, the political weblog that began in April 2003 and which launched a bestselling book…
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My picks for NFL week 3
Here are my picks for the upcoming week 3 of the NFL season. Last week: 11-2 (2nd place in my pool-lost in the MNF points tiebreaker) Season to date: 21-8 – Good for 72%! Buffalo Green Bay Indianapolis Tennessee Minnesota Cincinatti Tampa Bay Houston (upset of the week) Baltimore Arizona Philadephia (lock of the week)…
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Signage
While browsing my local university’s bulletin board, I noticed this line in an ad for the campus Amnesty International chapter: If you want to take an active stance against human rights then this group is for you!