Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Week 3: Vikings vs. 49ers
I’m not the first to say it, but I certainly thought it shortly after yesterday’s Vikings game: It’s nice to be on the winning side of one of those after all these years. In case you missed it, Brett Favre pulled off yet another miracle at the Metrodome, but this time it was for the…
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Caroling
I\’m clearly a little off my game. A famous Hollywood icon[1. Look, just repeat after me: Nobody puts Baby in a corner. Now try to tell me he\’s not an icon.] passes, and it takes me a full nine days to realize that it\’s a chance to run one of my favorite skits. Ah well,…
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Week 2: Vikings @ Lions
See last week’s recap.
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Week 1: Vikings @ Browns
Had you asked me to predict the score of the Vikings vs. Browns game I might have said 34-13… which it would have been if not for the very late, garbage-time, touchdown by Cleveland. But I would have never guessed how the team would end up at that score. The game started oddly with the…
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A tip from The King
ESPN\’s got a nice article up about Arnold Palmer turning 80, which is a good read for fans of golf, golf history, and/or Arnie. I\’m struck by a quote from Jack about a tip that Arnie gave him: \”We were playing, and I chipped a ball from just off the green. He recommended that I…
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2009 Vikings Preview
After the most interesting off-season in Vikings history, training camp in Mankato, the O.J.-esque coverage of Favre driving to Winter Park (with Chili acting as Al Cowlings no less), and 4 preseason games… the regular season for the 2009 Minnesota Vikings starts this Sunday. Expectations in Minnesota are as high as they’ve been in 10…
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I Feel Old
Today is the traditional day for classes to begin at schools around the country. One of my favorite days of the year now that I am no longer attending school. Sixteen years ago (gasp!) I started my freshman year of college. I had never had an email address before arriving on campus, and I had…
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Inception
Those of you who know me, know that I\’m a big fan of movie director Christopher Nolan. The Prestige is one of the first two or three movies that come to mind when people ask me What\’s your favorite movie?, and both Memento and even The Dark Knight would come close to placing Top 10.…
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Heavy Nerd Alert
Granted, you\’re not all Apple fanboys like me, but you might have noticed that they shipped their latest operating system (10.6, aka \’Snow Leopard\’) on Friday. Naturally, I\’ve been running it on a non-essential system (my work laptop, ha) since then. I\’ll post a little nutshell review below the link, but for those of you…
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Health Care Reform Debate (or People Is So Stupid)
Continuing on yesterday\’s topic from Alex… As Americans debate “Health Care Reform†there is a lot of misinformation out there regarding what the Obama administration is proposing. Just watch Fox News for any length of time and you’ll hear plenty. But I just read a Yahoo! News article that shows what the public believes versus…
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