Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2007

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You’re sitting in CSX’s Frontier Yard, just east of Buffalo at the Sloan town line. This is a popular spot for crews to change. Since crew changes require stopped trains, you can often get

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2007

One rather gets the impression that this is going to be a stormy week.  And I’m not talking about the weather.  So let’s spend a moment together in the quiet before the storm:

  • There’s a lot more info coming in

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2007

PARIS (AP) — Marcel Marceau, the master of mime who transformed silence into poetry with lithe gestures and pliant facial expressions that spoke to generations of young and old, has died. He was 84.Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2007

Because the RSS is fouled up for some reason, I went looking for other RSS possibilities.

I finally stumbled across FeedBurner.

Actually, I had it running on the old site, and putting it up for the new one, kind of

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2007

WEEHAWKEN, N.J. – George Clooney and a companion were injured on Friday when their motorcycle collided with a car on a narrow road across the Hudson River from New York City.

Clooney suffered a broken rib and scrapes while

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2007

From Little Green Footballs:

Sick, sick, sick. Before leaving Iran today, thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the American people want to hear different views about the world.

You know — antisemitic, Holocaust-denying, Islamic supremacist views. And sadly, he’s not wrong;

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2007

That’s one thing, that you can say about the New York Times; you only have to hit the gray lady upside the head with a 2*4, five or six hundred times over the period of a couple of weeks to

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2007

Looking through my mailbox this morning, it has become clear to me why the internet is slower than it should be…

  • Dear Bank of America Customer…. (I’m not, now, nor have I ever been a Bank of America customer)
  • A

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