Category: Offbeat

The DQYDJ Weekender, 8/18/2012

Welcome to another glorious Weekender with your leader PK!

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Who Won the 2012 London Olympics?

Sports are a funny thing, especially on an international stage. All sorts of sappy lines have been spilled about international sports - that they are a base of the global community, they foster goodwill between nations, they celebrate the world coming together. Let's cut to the chase - sports were originally a pretty solid tool to develop better, stronger, faster soldiers, at least before automation and weaponry closed the gap. Even look at the word which denotes a follower or supporter of a team - 'fan'. That word, of course, is short for 'fanatic', which describes excessive devotion to something - whether religion, politics, or yes... sports. Yes, if international sports is good for one thing - it's as a proxy for war. I'd much rather Ireland and Great Britain battled it out on a track than a battlefield. Same goes for China and the US, the ultimate rivalry of the last two games.

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The DQYDJ Weekender, 8/11/2012

Well, The Olympics are almost over and it's looking likely that the United States will take the overall medal count, and possibly the gold medal count too. There's nothing like a medal count victory on the world stage to get those patriotic fires burning...

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The DQYDJ Weekender, 8/4/2012

Who's having as much fun watching the Olympics as me? I, for one, am definitely getting into random events that I probably won't care about for another 4 years.

Well, sports is a proxy for war, and it's better I cheer for athletic prowess than battle, right?

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The DQYDJ Weekender, 7/28/2012

Olympics and blog warfare!

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The DQYDJ Weekender, 7/21/2012

Thoughts and prayers go out to all of the victims (and their families and friends) of the shooting in Aurora, […]

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The DQYDJ Weekender, 7/14/2012

Welcome Len Penzo Readers!

It's a person and a site. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, click here.

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The DQYDJ Weekender, 7/7/2012

So we've got a nifty new political status indicator to roll out to you next week. It's actually a bit early to know anything with any decent amounts of certainty about the upcoming elections in the old USA, but I want to have this in place soon. Oh, expect more political articles when the race heats up. Make sure to complain loudly in the comments section!

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The DQYDJ Weekender (Week of 6/25/12)

It's just two more days until our voice comes back over the air (wires?) in the newly re-branded Two Guys & Your Money. So, get your eardrums ready for TG&YM and my "hot voice" - and Joe posting the Fractional Sense archives up in a few days. Stay tuned!

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The DQYDJ Weekender (Week of 6/18/12)

Remember how a few months back I promised you folks I would post up a bunch of articles on home renovation and do it yourself sort of projects? Yeah, well - I'm running out of rooms (just two left). I've been documenting my progress, so I'm probably just going to dump a load of articles on you guys all in a short period of time - be ready for it! (And you can see some more interior pictures of our house. Architecturally I would describe it as half Mid Century Modern and half 'California' Contemporary.)

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