Archive for April 17th, 2007

hockey

Now eternally indebted to K, K and I attended Game 3 of the NY Rangers/Atlanta Thrashers. As announcer Sam Rosen quipped afterwards, Rags won by a touchdown. It was a fucking riot. The wit of the crowd always charms me. Chanting “we want hedberg”, the backup goalie. Or my favorite: doing the Atlanta Braves chop.

I’m on such a high right now. Just absolutely euphoric.

Update:  I neglected to mention this:   When we entered MSG, I was stopped by security, patted down, and searched.  Meanwhile, K, my south-asian friend, passed through unmolested.   This was an unusual reversal in profiling.

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no, thanks

Some people might say it’s a bad idea to place database files of current and former students and their housing information, indexed by their SSNs, on a web server. How else, I ask you, can a person can win free credit monitoring for one year? Whee!

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vt

So much for the model minority.

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rad

NY Mag surveys the state of the politico at Columbia. Reminds me of this new yorker bit about “How College Kids Imagine the United States Government” (written by ny times columnist frank rich’s 22-yr-old son, if you can believe it.)

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