the Daily Whale - archive 2004

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2004

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	January	February	March
1	folly of the year	breakfast cereal	bug the UN 2
2	understanding	silver lining	1% inspiration
3	nerds	light work	forgivable success
4	CAN SPAM act	many hands	water on Mars
5	love a Walmart	yesterday’s work	life on Mars
6	build on it	space race	finish your
7	going to Mars	waiting around	all mistakes
8	no tomorrow	full fathom five	time
9	long-term plan	Humpty Dumpty	safe as houses
10	learning	can’t aim	space exploration
11	distract them	fail brilliantly	French science quiz
12	JFK II	usable	inventing morning
13	to be confused	cockroaches	laugh at
14	simian simoleon	little jobs	constructive/destructive
15	first-rate intelligence	putdown	from within
16	time explains	profundity	Sedna
17	hazard camera	no Monday	unobserved
18	wisdom	violence	sects
19	raw deal	fast mistakes	no error
20	MikeRoweSoft	gutters of despair	my advice
21	disclaimer	Iran comes clean	trust myself
22	survival value	seem or scheme	get thee behind me
23	bug	Haiti popularity	ambition
24	Oisterwijk	business solution	smoking gun quiz
25	darkness descended	engineer, manager	uneconomic life
26	stall	science is heard	bargaining with artists
27	my candle burns	autobiography	act of God
28	inspiration	my funeral	free country
29	OK to be right	bug the UN	Bush administration
30	intelligence review		one-eyed man
31	intelligence review 2		find the truth

	April	May	June
1	underrated	live once	like a garden
2	theory quiz	mature content	falling down
3	true insight	end of the world	get rich quick
4	visiting the U.S.	music and happiness	live and learn
5	full of it	innocent or guilty	enemy quiz
6	reality and dreams	delegation	spontaneous activity
7	aspiration	Mooning The Stars	principal
8	what you want	no planet	history repeats
9	Soylent green	three quotes	be superior
10	banana	overgeneralization	torture memos
11	No-Fly list	Second Gloaming	Friday evenings
12	cretin	toward success	key to success
13	McCarthyism	the other is wrong	bad news
14	predictable weather	gods wot	can learn
15	simpler than you	broccoli of fate	multiple-choice quiz
16	task quiz	certainty	if I’m wrong
17	down to a science	game over	explanations
18	overconfidence	afraid of life	metaphor
19	law of large numbers	committee mob	criticism
20	good enough	cultural engineering	hearse
21	learning and forgetting	made for us	hero of science
22	leadership	deference	buns of Steele
23	non-expertise	worry	good manners
24	civilization	honest	shut up
25	nonexistence	presidential philosophy	TSA
26	Demeter	should be done	Tasmanian devil
27	a little learning	FBI fingerprint	cosmetic surgery
28	difficulty	doubt	know your enemy
29	am I a gamer	lying history	Al Qaeda planners
30	procrastination	lunched and gained	an island
31		instant gratification

	July	August	September
1	Cassini	compound interest	under the weather
2	Big Bang	fact	make ends meet
3	make lunch	bumper sticker	ketchup vegetated
4	cat’s-eye moon	remaining bland	shrouded in mystery
5	perseverance	crying wolf	impress any key
6	noise floor quiz	delegate	memory
7	not what you know	the mind’s sky	depravity
8	security means	impossible happenings	Banach-Tarski
9	trust the stupid	revenge quiz	delusions
10	winning	ignorance	great advance
11	groupthink	knowledge	too many conks
12	spontaneity	terrorism alert	chain of command
13	squabblers	launching an alert	bill for wrongs
14	consistency	firing an alert	stupidity
15	on my laurels	foolishness	changing change
16	red snapper	four elements	disagreement
17	Bobby Fischer	community spirit	disagreement 2
18	Martha Stewart	sacrifice to expediency	truths
19	polarized light	mind control	three hurricanes
20	validation	power	good taste
21	one small step	pursued by a bore	grand theft
22	bad memory	boring	gone farther
23	spoils	Ted Kennedy	greed and fear
24	the truth	Ted Kennedy 2	different taste
25	emergency	experience of others	Cat Stevens
26	worldview quiz	news story processing	paranoid personality disorder
27	knowing something	Mencken	power corrupts
28	Free Speech Zone	in a tome	great power quiz
29	overlooked idea	chain letter	bear your own cross
30	am I the only one	moving a mountain	I am become Truth
31	think for yourself	bicameral mind

	October	November	December
1	genius	Gilbert & Sullivan	lie awake
2	money	neck-and-neck	fly from New York
3	resigned	learn to add	a business show
4	presidential debate	election quiz	nuclear sun
5	Scaled Composites	favor returns	only adults
6	computer program	certainty	to be puny
7	good listener	for who you are	marginal value
8	plutonium in France	reify first	figure it out
9	plutonium in France 2	indolence	ickier
10	ludic	push and shove	imperfect
11	ignorance	can’t complain	the past
12	last refuge	intelligent design	Ukraine poison
13	to reason why	mathematics	trick the stupid
14	fight or flight	philosophy	say what you think
15	has-beens and wannabes	Jakarta	free country quiz
16	how to forget	fatal error	indecisiveness
17	arbalest	zipping commercials	feet on the ground
18	talent	fluorescent lights	the e-word
19	outpatient	history	one right way
20	die trying	my only flaw	wrestling for oil
21	classification	expendable	way to fail
22	literature	New Lords’ Prayer	Karl Rove
23	potboiler	blockheads	on its stomach
24	flu vaccine quiz	get you all	Huygens
25	peril of libraries	strength vs. stealth	good holiday
26	war crimes trial	Ukraine election	Boxing Day
27	English	get out of bed	earthquake forecast
28	Human Being(tm)	smugness	natural disasters
29	lived this long	light and sound	overwhelming attacks
30	integument	smoking pun	tsunami quiz
31	easy Halloween		New Year’s resolution