I thought I’d provide what I deemed to be an ironic follow-up to yesterday’s post regarding the aesthetic. Here are my stats for the most popular search strings for finding my blog:
Top
20 of 38 Total Search Strings
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34.95%
venom cock
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9.71%
trent hergenrader
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I am a huge fan of the always-excellent Phil Ball, who covers the Spanish league for Soccernet.com. His column always manages to make a point about culture as well as covering the footie, almost always with humor and never without a clever turn of phrase or two. Ball, better than any other sports [...]
One other thing. While driving to the grocery story, Amy saw a white dog (looked like a shepherd/husky mix) rooting around in some garbage at the end of our block and no one else was around. She approached him and, although skittish, he didn’t appear mean. Attached to his leash was about [...]
I had a terrific four-day holiday at the in-laws. I got to see my nieces and both my brothers, albeit on different days, and I caught up on sleep and did a little work on my academic writing sample for grad school, which is a spiffed up version of the article I wrote for [...]
It’s funny. For the last month my days have been pretty packed trying to contact folks to write me letters of recommendation, studying for the GRE, and being busy for work (requiring me to go in early and do some after-hours activities) it’s very easy to say, “Oh, this is time I could be [...]
After looking at it a little closer, I guess my verbal score is pretty accurate but the math section is still a sham. Here’s a little table that shows the results of my practice tests (first four via Princeton Review, the last one from the GRE’s PowerPrep) and my actual GRE results:
Math
Verbal
Test 1
530 (31%)
710 [...]
Just got back from taking the GRE. I did okay. 660 verbal, 600 quantitative which puts me in the 92-93 percentile on the former, about the 48% on the latter. I’m pleased with the latter, not so much on the former.
To say it plainly, I wish I would have done better on [...]
I watched Barcelona systematically dismantle Real Madrid today. The gulf between the two teams is enormous, even though they’re only a handful of points apart in the table. Madrid wasn’t ever in the game. They couldn’t staunch the flow of Barcelona all afternoon. If it wasn’t Eto’o, it was Ronaldinho. [...]
SCIFICTION has been a wonderful showcase for the breadth and depth of stories that we all, more or less, agree to call “speculative fiction.” Science fiction. Fantasy. Alternate history. Near future. Far future. No future. SCIFICTION featured stories that both defined and defied the genre. Who cares [...]
“American soldiers and Marines are out there every day in dangerous conditions and desert temperatures — conducting raids, training Iraqi forces, countering attacks, seizing weapons, and capturing killers — and back home a few opportunists are suggesting they were sent into battle for a lie.”
-Dick Cheney, Vice President
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051116-10.html
Now look, I’m not that bright of [...]