Carl Banks' Blog Entries: Personal

Sunday, August 17, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT

MRI of my Brain

Yes, that image is really an MRI scan of my brain.

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 5:58 AM EDT

My family's dogs just woke the neighborhood taunting a possum

I've been begrudgingly dogsitting for the last two weeks. Tonight at 3 AM they decide to wake whole neighborhood trying (and failing) to kill a possum. You dog lovers are lunatics.

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Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 10:42 PM EDT

Bad Classroom Experiences

A partial rant about some bad classroom experiences I've had.

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Friday, May 5, 2006, 11:30 PM EDT

Photographs of Me
Just a bunch of photos of me. Nothing special.

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Sunday, September 25, 2005, 2:27 AM EDT

Newly Redesigned Web Site

Welcome to my newly redesigned web site. I'd been inkling to get this done for awhile, but it took me getting sick to actually do it.

I reorganized by site into kind of a hierarchically-categorized blog. Most of the pages on this site are listings of different blog articles, or entris. Each article has an associated tag that gives you an idea of what the article's about. The tags (i.e., the little images that say Musings, Vanity, etc.) were inspired by Fark.

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Sunday, September 25, 2005, 1:19 AM EDT

Thing that are underrated
List of things that I think are underrated.

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Sunday, September 25, 2005, 1:18 AM EDT

Thing that are overrated
List of things that I think are overrated.

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Sunday, September 25, 2005, 1:16 AM EDT

My best Usenet posts

I used to frequently hang out in the newsgroup rec.sport.football.college. It's about college football, but the conversation occasionally veers into other topics.

Here are links to some of those posts on Google.

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Saturday, September 24, 2005, 5:56 PM EDT

Why I am not, and have yet to be, dating anyone

I am 31 years old, have never had a girlfriend, and have never been on a date. I've never made it to first base. Hell, I've never even gone to bat.

And I am not in any hurry to change this.

Note: This weblog entry is partially, but not wholly, tongue-in-cheek.

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Saturday, September 24, 2005, 4:43 PM EDT

Microburst: June 8, 2003

On June 8, 2003, a microburst fell upon my house in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. Here are some photographs of the damage.

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