December 2009
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Amazing first-hand account of what happened on... →
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Roey Rosenblith, the passenger who wrote the piece, is the director of a company trying to create affordable solar power in rural Uganda, and he recounts the whole experience. One choice excerpt:
It’s been less than two days since all of this has happened. We still have a lot to learn about who Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was and what made him into a human bomb. From what I know...
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I received my first Google Adsense check today.
time to break out the champagne!
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How cold/blizzard-prone is NYC in late January?
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Contemplating a 3-day weekend trip after seeing some really, really low plane tickets (granted, this thought did enter my head before the news that I may have to sit with my hands in my lap the whole flight…).
But I’d hate to get up there and find it’s the weekend of a massive blizzard leaving me sleeping at LaGuardia or something.
Check out this graph. The highest percent...
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“Two men thought to have been acting suspicious aboard a flight bound for Phoenix...”
– via yahoo news
If you’re a ‘Middle Eastern-looking’ man, can you do us a favor and not watch the movie “The Kingdom” while you’re on a plane? Some people are a little jumpy these days.
“I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only...”
– schneier.com
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Things I learned at Caroline's church that I never...
Jesus was a Republican… I guess that’s why he was so into helping the sick and poor.
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I'm at work on Christmas Eve and there's no...
I learnt our fire alarm works today...
I accidentally bumped my elbow into the fire alarm pull box in our vestibule while carrying stuff. About three minutes later three fire trucks arrived and Adams Street was closed off… Whoops! Sorry Hoboken FD.
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