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There are only two weather conditions in Texas – warm and hot; with an occasional ice day when everything shuts down due to 1mm of ice on the road making all trucks with dogs in the [...]
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Barack Obama is rocking all college campuses in the United States. Except perhaps BYU (in Utah) and my university, Texas A&M. Located in conservative heartland of Texas, most student ‘conservatives’ are morons at best and an insult to the conservative movement. The student newspaper, The Battalion is a prime example of a bad student newspaper [...]
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Texas Hurricane Sunset, originally uploaded by patrix99.
Guess sunsets before a hurricane can be pretty dramatic. Too bad I couldn’t get a more interesting foreground. Taken in College Station, TX before Hurricane Ike hits.
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Hurricane Ike is expected to pass right through the heart of Houston after literally battering Galveston. A 15-foot storm surge is expected to flood the entire island. Although technically it is a barrier island and geographically intended to take on the brunt of any such storm, rampant development and dense populations have made catastrophic damages [...]
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Come April, Texas flora begins to wake up from its winter hibernation and bloom slowly to life. Admittedly, Texas doesn’t have much of a winter but the distinct dry and dreary landscape dotted with bare trees and dry grass cannot be missed. As Washington D.C. welcomes the spring with its famed cherry blossoms, Texas does [...]
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The Aggies Womens basketball team crashed out of the NCAA tournament yesterday and failed to make the Final Four. They lost to the defending champions, Tennessee. But it was still one of Aggies triumphant moments by playing in the Elite Eight for the first time. Until they choked in the final seven minutes, they were [...]
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I know it is December and time already for snow to fall but you see, in Texas we like to savor our season and tend to hang on to them for a little longer. I’m sure Texas doesn’t readily leap to your mind when you think of a glorious autumn with red trees along melancholic [...]
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This weekend was slightly different from the other mundane ones as we continue to countdown to our day of departure. Texas A&M University’s International associations got together and hosted the first Brazos Valley Worldfest in historic downtown Bryan. Bryan is College Station’s twin city and is more like small town American complete with Main Street, [...]
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Being a full-time graduate student has its perks. In spite of the monetary insecurity especially during the most productive years of your life, it has its charm. Sometimes I wonder if I ever will be able to make the transition to working full-time. One of the perks of graduate school especially for non-science (natural) students [...]
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I have been complaining about the lack of any outdoor sports to exercise my lazy muscles. My gym routine is pretty erratic and frankly I don’t fancy the treadmill much. I long for the summer days when I could head out as soon as the sun turns off its harsh glare. the evening playtime was [...]
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Michael Cera is the only bright spark in an otherwise listless comedy.
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Love political movies so loved this one too. Frank Langella plays a terrific Nixon.
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Outrageously funny. Not recommended for watching with your kids or parents.
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