February 2006
The Archives
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02.28.06so when did yahoo take over the worldYahoo! 2006 Frontpage Revamping Originally uploaded by Richy!. My Yahoo! account was old...real old. I kept hanging on to it because it was my first and last name. There were no numbers, dashes or dots. But I was getting thousands of spam messages a week. It was time to move on. Instead of simply abadoning the account and creating a new one, I decided to do Yahoo a favor and actually delete the account. Then I realized how much Yahoo actually owns. Since it was tied to ...
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02.27.06yet another reason why academics irritate mein the stacks Originally uploaded by eclecticlibrarian. Seriously. I got my paper back from my American Cinema class. My grammer stinks and I don't completely expound on ideas - these things I am familiar with and accept. What annoys me was the comment that my writing style was too informal or casual for an academic paper. It wasn't a complaint about passive sentences or contractions but simply the style of writing. The style? So, basically, he could have said, "you didn't use big words." Why must academia be a ...
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02.22.06movie review: favela risingfavela rising 3 Originally uploaded by alizinha. I went to UAB tonight to see Favela Rising. I skipped my film class screening tonight (I'll just borrow Red River from my dad) to go see it. It was the movie I really wanted to see at the Sidewalk Film Festival last year but chickened out when I couldn't find anyone to go with me. I am getting over that. Anyway, the main reason I wanted to go is because co-director Jeff Zimbalist was going to take part in a ...
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02.21.06collage montage of death and loveGoing Underground Originally uploaded by Monster.. I scrambled this weekend. It was amazing. I have to admit there was a bit of apprehension before the weekend started. I thought it might suck. Scramble films usually do. Mine did. Once we got started, I realized that this film wasn't going to suck. It has its issues (any film done in 48 hours probably will), but I'm proud of what we ended up with. I kind of wonder what all of us could come up with ...
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02.16.06fatal erroriPhoto dialogue spoof 4 Originally uploaded by inkswamp. If I had it all to do again I would have never gone anywhere near the Computer Science department. I am well on my way to failing a class.