Nigeria! Nigeria!

As Nigeria goes through its first civilian transfer of power -- with all the fears of instability and uncertainty for the future -- I think its a great time to look back to one of the great moments in Nigerian history: our soccer victory over Brazil in the 96 Olympic semifinals!

Some highlights:



For the uninformed, Nigeria went on to beat Argentina in the finals and win her most important Gold medal in an olympic games.

Complaining about Gas prices

Just heard this on the radio - a guy's excuse for not driving his girlfriend to the beach:

If I wanted to pay $4 for gas, I'd go buy a burrito.

Muhammad Ali

The great words of Muhammad Ali before his fight with George Foreman:

I rassled with a gator! Tussled with a whale! I murdered a rock! Injured a brick! I'm so mean, I make medicine sick!

Source

Soccer for Philosophers

An old Monty Python skit about what happens when philosophers try to play soccer.

Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham

Flash back to the 60s. An agnostic talks to an evangelical. My how times have changed. Nowadays we have Bill O'Reilly.

Brotherhood

Don't know if you have a brother... but this is what brotherhood is all about:



Happy Mothers day!

MultithreadedTC is finally here

I've been working on this project for half the semester, and now it is finally released: on Google Code and at UMD. Bill Pugh will be mentioning this project during a presentation to a few hundred Java programmers at JavaOne, so we'll see how many downloads we get... and which of the bugs I've missed gets reported first.

Get some perspective

A British man was told by his doctor that he only has 12 months to live. So he does what we all would do given this grim news: he went on a spending spree! Quit his job, sold almost everything, went on holiday... the good stuff of life. The problem was at the end of the year, he was still alive, and the doctors admitted they misdiagnosed him: his sickness was benign. Good news or bad news? Well he's suing the doctor/hospital because he is totally broke!

Dallas Down... for now

After the devastating defeat of the Dallas Mavs, we are finding ways to keep ourselves humored. Some one suggested a new logo, posted at the Dallas Morning News Mavs Blog:

On my desktop

Just experimenting with DeviantArts new embed feature.



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