Rants

So, I got mugged yesterday for my iPhone 4. Woo, my hazing is complete and I can now officially say that I am a true New Yorker! Actually, the story has a happy ending. I had just finished a chess tournament at the Marshall Chess Club and was turning the corner of 10th Street onto [...]

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Philip on July 5th, 2009

Every other developed nation in the world has a national healthcare system that works better and costs less than ours. If we switched to one of their systems it would SAVE us money, not COST us money. We wouldn’t even have to spend time and energy coming up with our own plan, we could just [...]

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Philip on June 28th, 2009

Yes, Michael Jackson is dead, but I don’t need to hear about it 24/7 for the next week. A casual mention in passing will suffice, thank you. Also, please stop saying that his death is a “mystery”. He died from a heart attack, there is nothing less mysterious than that. So he was addicted to [...]

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Philip on May 10th, 2009

I don’t have a TV, Cable box, TiVo, DVR, DVD player, VCR, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation, stereo, Netflix, CD player, VuDu, radio, SlingBox, or a bookcase full of DVDs (or books, for that matter). Actually, I take that back, I do have all of these things… as software. That’s right, I have a single computer that [...]

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