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There are hundreds of songs associated with Christmas. But only one is associated with New Year’s: Auld Lang Syne.
“Auld Lang Syne” is a poem by Robert Burns, although a similar poem by Robert Ayton (1570-1638), not to mention even older folk songs, use the same phrase, and [...]

What American Accent Do You Have?

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The South

That’s a Southern accent you’ve got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don’t have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.

The Midland

The Inland North

The Northeast

Philadelphia

The West

North Central

Boston

What American accent do you [...]

Another year come and gone. Where does the time go… Let’s see how I did with the goals this year.

2006 Goal Tracking
Goals Completed

Learn five origami modelsCompleted - I’ve learned/relearned the crane, the flapping crane, the frog, the waterbomb and the iris.
Redecorate/organize my family room and den and spare bedroomThis goal is done [...]

ForeignPolicy.com:
The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006

Hackable Passports
What’s Worse Than Bird Flu? The Cure.
Petro Powers Drop the Dollar
The Gender Gap Gets Smaller
Iran and Israel Hold Secret Talks
United States Funds the Taliban
Russia Fuels Latin American Arms Race
Bush’s Post-Katrina Power Grab
China Runs up African Debt
India Helps Iran Build the Bomb, While the White [...]

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1. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
2. You know stuff about tanks.
3. A five day vacation requires only one suitcase.
4. Monday Night Football.
5. Your bathroom lines are 80 percent shorter.
6. You can open all your own jars.
7. Old friends don’t give you crap if you’ve lost or gained weight.
8. Dry cleaners [...]

Finally! I’m trying not to get my hopes up too much, though. That’s what I heard in 2004…and 2005…and 2006…

‘Indiana Jones’ to Begin Filming in 2007

Woohoo! The UK football team won it’s first bowl game in 22 years today,
beating Clemson 28-20 in the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl. Yes!

My cousin Connie took a short video of my cousin Steve and I as we played boxing on the Nintendo Wii. Now you can see why I wasn’t so good at it

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At the beginning of the video, I’m getting up from a knock down, then I just flail around after that, [...]

Haha, these are funny:
From MIT Admissions:
Everybody LOVES a math joke

50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition
Here are the first 10:

1. U.S. life expectancy in 2005 inched up to a record high of 77.9 years.
2. The part of the brain that regulates reasoning, impulse control and judgment is still under construction during puberty and doesn’t shift [...]