Archive for 2006

The following were the five most read posts on Internet128.com in 2006, as roughly estimated by me based on non-exact statistics and possibly wishful thinking:
The Kaavya Viswanathan “Opal Mehta” plagiarism story was big news back in April and May and continues to bring people to this site. Quite a few people are looking for Ms. [...]

The New England Patriots had a couple of bruising games against the Tennessee Titans in the first half of this decade, during New England’s Super Bowl era. Today’s game was reminiscent of those slugfests. It was physical,it was brutal, it went on all game long, and in the end the Patriots won.
New England’s 40-23 victory [...]

Tomorrow Sunday is not just the end of 2006 but also the end of my year of working at an office in Davis Square in Somerville outside of Boston. I shall mark this milestone by handing out the first ever Internet128.com Rafsty, or Rafsty for short (Rafsty is an Anglicized version of the Swedish word [...]

You are probably familiar with the saying that success has a thousand parents while failure is an orphan. I was reminded of that when a local university recently invited me and the missus to watch a movie (or possibly exhibition, or perhaps both) that celebrates the school’s contributions to “social justice.” I imagine the “social [...]

New England Patriots celebrated Christmas Eve by defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-21.
Was it an impressive victory? Yes, it was.
As I have grown fond of complaining, the Patriots have an inadequate receiving corps, an offensive line that’s merely above average and a fading linebacker corps. With that in mind their victory on the road was impressive, [...]

Merry Christmas!

Silent night, holy night,
Son of God, love’s pure light.
Radiant beams from Thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth;
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth.

A follow-up post on The Lower Depths, the latest addition to Kenmore Square, is in order. The missus and I went their last weekend for lunch but we’re curious to see how it would work at night. The Lower Depths brings a grown-up, casual establishment to the southeastern part of kenmore Square and adds a [...]

Mahdi heads the Badr militia while Sadr is the head of the Mahdi militia. Sounds like a scene from Airplane or Spies Like Us:
“Mahdi, Badr.”
“Sadr, Mahdi.”
I’m looking forward to President George W. Bush explaining why we should side with one against the other:
“We must help Mahdi maul the Mahdi, or else Sadr could savage [...]

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick unloaded on the National Football League’s competition committee during his press conference today after getting a question on whether quarterbacks get too much protection from the rules:

Q: What is your general feeling about the way the quarterbacks are being protected these days and the way the rule is [...]

My wife and I walked into a CVS store on the Brookline side of Commonwealth Avenue this evening and happened upon an unexpected scene. Seven Brookline police officers were in the process of detaining one black woman and one black man, both suspected of shoplifting if I correctly understood the interaction between the police officers [...]