Michael Foody

Gordon Bombay Explains it All on FunnyOrDie.com

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Apparently Cindy McCain wants to continue to make a big deal of Michelle Obama’s slip up months ago about not being sufficiently proud of her country. It is nice that Cindy McCain is proud of her country. On the other hand considering Michelle Obama had never committed adultery with a married man who then left [...]

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This seems to me like an obviously great idea. Not many people get sued for piracy, those that do get sued face fees fare out of proportion with the actual crime a company could offer insurance at a low monthly premium and be profitable even when you take selection bias into account.  See also: insurance [...]

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I am a voyeur. I am nothing if not eyes.
I watch Maria most of all. She is exceedingly pleasing to view. I frame her every which way, all the angles, the manifold views overfilling my compound eyes. Here she is asleep. She is unusually calm. She wears her blankets like a dress. Her feet are [...]

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I’ve heard people complain that ebooks on the amazon kindle are too expensive considering the fact that the marginal cost of an ebook is pretty much zero. The problem with this analysis is that by far the greatest cost of reading an ebook is not the monetary cost of purchasing but the opportunity cost of [...]

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Ebay was one of the first big internet businesses to be profitable. It was a natural fit for the internet, it allowed people to make really specific connections that allowed both parties to profit from an exchange that would otherwise be impossible. It was such a perfect business for the medium that its success seems, [...]

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So now I want her. And I know how I want her. I don’t want her perfectly. Having found a prize I now demand a contest.

For me having and wanting are usually no different. There is no cause and effect between them. They are water flowing from the same stream. My will [...]

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People are always asking me “If one finds himself or herself in 1000 AD what are some good tips for survival and maybe success?” From the discussion there are some pretty big downsides, you don’t know the language, you don’t know common knowledge like how to thatch a roof, there was pretty much no social [...]

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She’s sitting there, the cardboard colored plastic desk wraps around her and she runs her fingers over the scratched graffiti trying to learn it by touch. Her index finger, the nail crippled, traces the burred contours of the message. She’s pretending she’s blind. Running her finger the noise of a word starts [...]

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Blogs are written in reverse chronological order. This makes sense because the reader typically values currency and is most interested in the newest content. This idiosyncrasy creates a couple problems. Readers are used to texts being written from left to right (which is the easier way to write if you are right handed since [...]

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