Ryan Gardner on February 21st, 2006

One of the best parts about being a college student is the fact that you can get academic pricing on software. This means that instead of shelling out only $119 for a Student version of Maple 10 instead of $2000 for a “my-boss-paid-for-this” copy of the same exact software. It also means that you can [...]

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Ryan Gardner on February 21st, 2006

$2 bills are of special value to me, as most of you know. We have been using a $2 bill as the trophy for the Sheep Seekers tournament for a long time now, and never had any bad luck because of it. (at least not that I can remember.)

Some guy on eBay, however, thinks his [...]

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Ryan Gardner on February 21st, 2006

This is the first of three days of consecutive caption contests. All of these will deal with the Olympic Winter games.

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Ryan Gardner on February 21st, 2006

In a society where the line that divides the roles of men from the roles of women is erroding away, perhaps there is nowhere that erosion is happening faster than in the world of Figure Skating. For years, these girly men non-traditional males have endured snickering and sneers for their outlandish outfits and their rather [...]

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