Why is it, when I was walking through the campus bookstore today, all pro-left, anti-right books like Michael Moore, Al Franken, and Alan Colmes were all 30% off the cover price?
Meanwhile, those discounts were not to be found on books with a conservative slant.

So why is that?
Liberal books don’t sell as well?
They don’t want to encourage sales of conservative books?

The results are in, the lights are set, and everyone is eager for the Jeremy-Gilby-Dot-Com Search Results entry.

For those of you who came in late, these are the top 20 search results used to find Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com from the various Search Engines from around the world-wide-web.

It seems that someone was having some fun this month. Lets see if we can have fun at their expense.

Lets get to checking!
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People who support John Kerry, describe his political mindless banter as “nuanced”.

Nuance: n (French)
1. A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation.
2. Expression or appreciation of subtle shades of meaning, feeling, or tone: a rich artistic performance, full of nuance.

“a Subtle degree of difference“? You know what they say: The Worst Kind of Lie is the one that is slightly different from the truth.

*scoffs* In Kerry’s Case, Nuanced really means, “I can’t say the same thing twice.”

Today’s Opinion Journal Featured Article is an Editorial from John O’Neill, who served with the Haughty French-looking, Massachusetts Democrat, who by-the-way also served in Vietnam..

I encourage you to read it. It requires a free subcription to the OpinionJournal-dot-com website, but it will be freely available tomorrow.

Trolling around the net, it looks like Yahoo has developed a new little gimmick for their Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo Avatars. So I had some fun with it.

It doesn’t QUITE look like look like me. But its a close resemblance. Personall,y I think the guy should tuck in his shirt and invest more in belts, and less in highlighting his short hair.

And he could use some more Slashdot Green. Maybe I’d hire this kid to do my web design work.

Hat tip to Melissa.

Today is May 5, 2004.
For those of you who live in a sorry place in the nation, you do not realize it is CINCO DE MAYO! Which is Spanish for The Fifth of May.

Living here in Tucson, we celebrate this day more then the Fourth of July (not that we don’t appreciate the Forth of July, but here in the dry, waterless desert, fireworks are frowned upon.)

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I saw this on Drudge. I clicked the link.
Bush pauses to comfort teen
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I got my package in the mail!

I’m excited.

My official Grill Master Apron!
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You may recall I’ve recently read Michael Crichton’s Timeline. Well, today I watched the Movie

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This week, the latest roommate evacuated the GeekBrigade. Matt left and is going to get himself married on the 28th. As he loves his bride-to-be, it would be best if he and she lived elsewhere, and not have to put up with 5 bachelors under one roof.

He marks the 3rd founding member of the house to leave and get hitched.
First Matt H., then Jeff, and now Matt M.
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Some people have figured out what I like to see in a movie. (You must be reading my Movie Reviews) and have sent many a suggestion on what I should rent next from NetFlix. This weekend, I saw Big Fish, and I was plesantly surprised.

I first heard of this film via the Theatrical Trailers of other films I’ve recently enjoied. I didn’t think much of it, just another of those fantastic Tim Burton unrealities, and I can only take so much Beetlejuice and Pee-Wee.

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Once upon a time, I was a HUGE fan of the television cooking/game show Iron Chef, but alas, it has been a long time since I’ve seen that program.

But lo and behold, something more obnoxious has reared its ugly Iron head in the Blogosphere.

There are some days when I think the Internet is too dangerous a place for me to play in.
Eight Years ago, yes, it was a dangerous place, as the lion’s share of the iPopulation were professional computer geeks, so more then likely when you met someone, they knew more then you did. (And probably knew more about you then you thought they did.)

So today, I’m trolling around one of my daily reads: h-t-t-p colon forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org. And I run across an interesting personal tidbit, an old pseudo-friend of mine, and one of the authors of SlashDot, CowboyNeal, put a blog on his website.

But alas, his popularity has gotten the best of him, and he’s getting personally attacked. Granted, this is old news [February], but it still bothers me. Kind of like why I get frustrated at the Intentional Attacks of people.
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No, this isn’t a “Where are the Carriers” Update, (thankfully). And No, The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter is not the designation of a Carrier Vehicle.

It’s a Submarine (Seawolf Class).
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Can you believe it?

This post is #500 of the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com set. To celebrate, I thought I’d provide a Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Hall of Fame.

But first some Administrivia:

• By My Calucaltions, this website has been active for 2 years and 19 weeks, meaining that there have been 4 posts per week. (You might have noticed that entries are slowly becoming semi-daily)
• As of this post, there have been 335 Comments, on 92 articles. (Not including Articles with zero comments, and not including Spam which I deleted) giving an average of 3.6 comments per article. I’ve only started this trend of allowing comments, so it seems like I’ll let the trend continue.

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I’m almost afraid to do this Meme.

Almost.
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It’s been awhile, but I just watched another Steve McQueen movie.

As you recall from Previous Posts. I’ve a big fan of Steve McQueen, and I’m astonished that as he’s mostly cast as a protagonist, he’s not always the winner in his movies. I’m a big fan!. This latest one does not help his record.

My Steve McQueen awareness List:

1. The Great Escape
2. The Magnificent Seven
3. Bullitt
4. The Thomas Crown Affair
5. The Sand Pebbles
6. The Cincinnati Kid
7. Hell is For Heroes
8. The Towering Inferno
9. The Getaway
10. Papillon
11. Baby, The Rain Must Fall
12. Nevada Smith
13. Le Mans
14. The Hunter
15. Junior Bonner
16. The War Lover

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WASHINGTON, May 17, 2004 — A roadside bomb containing the nerve agent sarin – a substance Saddam Hussein’s regime insisted it had destroyed more than a decade ago – exploded near a U.S. military convoy traveling near Baghdad, coalition officials said today.

From GlobalSecurity.org, and Best of the Web, Today

Aside: Sarin is a Chemical Weapon of Mass Destruction. A Nerve Agent that Iraq was NOT supposed to have.
So no, this doesn’t justify anything, but it does call for some people to be quiet. (So far the Global War on Terror has unearthed more WMDs then the U.N. inspectors.)

The BAD news is, our brave boys and girls over in Iraq will start having to deal with this junk now.
So no, I’m no celebrating. (Sometimes I hate being right.)

Real life is really entertaining sometimes.

Picture it: May 7th, 2004, I read this comic from Day By Day – by Chris Muir my daily trolling of the Internet:

Not funny? Keep Reading…
(Comic Appears below)
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Okay, so I’m proabably a little late on this announcement, but the boys and girls at Opera Software have launched the Version 7.5 of their browser.
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I saw this article over at h-t-t-p-colon forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org. You might remember my previous articles on the Evils of Verisign and their numberous Clashes with ICANN.

Well, now VeriSign is getting into the game of lawsuits.
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Another article on h-t-t-p-colon forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org, was about your favorite subject and mine.

Dark Matter

or rather

Dark Energy

What a load of tripe.
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Well, its that time.

Rachael is about to be christened, and Ang and Joe have given me the honor of being the godfather.
(I’m trying to decide if I’m going to be the Marlon Brando Godfather, or the Al Pachino Godfather, or just split the difference and be the Robert De Niro version.)

I do know that I’m taking the title of “The Crazy Uncle”
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I think I’ve forgotten what the color green looks like.

But today, Ang, Joe, Rachael and I went down to visit “home”, and I got to talk a walk in the backyard for the first time in over 8 years.

It was the same, but it was different
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People who have known me for awhile, people know I have an afinity for Cheesesteaks.

So its a given that when I return to the “homeland”, I’ve got to eat at least one.
And not some cheap cheesesteak, but a GOOD Cheesesteak.
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Today was the big day.

There were five babies being dedicated today. So it was a busy time for a church service.

Pictures were taken. This article is just a place holder until I can get some copies uploaded. (I was too busy being a godfather to take pictures myself)

Update: Pictures added, see below
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Note: This post is late, as I’ve been struggling to get Internet Access :: See Future Posts

Not only is that what I’m doing. (Well, technically, I’ll be posting this after I land.) But its also the first song ever recorded by my favorite Tenor Saxophone player of all time, Illinois Jacquet.
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Stinking Internet Providers.

*Jeremy catches up on all his lack of posting*
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In my absence from the Internet, I almost missed this Special Peggy Noonan article on Opinion Journal.

Hofstra students use boos responsibly

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While I was flying home, I also updated my Links Page a.k.a. “Where are you Going?”.

I organized it a bit, added a few new ones, and such and such.

Oh, the game is afoot!

I’ve been asked to Guest Author at Matthew-Maynard-dot-net.

This should be fun…

Today, Matt (Former Roommate) and Jennifer are going to be married.

(Later tonight)

I wish them all the best.
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Today just feels wrong.
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Its a slow sunday, so I thought I’d go into my backlog of posting ideas (I’ve got a slew of them, I’m still trying to catch up)

Tommorow, I’ll have the Memorial Day Edition of “Where are the Carriers”.
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Being Memorial Day, and since there are some recent Carrier developments, I thought this would be a fitting day to update everyone on where and what our Fleet of SuperCarriers are doing.

Sources: Global-Security-dot-org
Navy-dot-mil
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