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...some, the outage illustrates the robustness of Asia's telecommunications infrastructure, since the quake did not cause a total blackout. Some traffic was quickly re-routed away from damaged Asian arteries through Europe and the Middle East. But for many, the unexpected return to the pre-Google era was a shocking reminder of the fragility of the technology we depend...
...only to realize she was “incredibly behind. People were falling down drunk.” So when you get right down to it, maybe people love The Game simply because they are too drunk on a pleasant Saturday morning to know any better. Because they are blackout when they would normally be sleeping through breakfast.But as Aidan, a junior, notes scornfully, fans in her native Oklahoma “actually use their tickets to go to the game. They don’t just drink to oblivion...
...those opened as their weekends' top grossers. Granted, to get that number into double figures I'm including V for Vendetta, which is after all about a defaced creature in a cave who plots violent revenge on his enemies, and Saw III, which would require a blackout on 3,000 screens to keep it from being declared #1 on Sunday. But the very first weekend of January, Hostel emerged triumphant over King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia. Two and four weeks later, Underworld: Evolution (a sequel) and When a Stranger Calls (a remake) reigned. In April, Scary Movie...
That gives us 67 hours of blackout, by my calculations...
...this echelon of higher education, even the party scene reeks of this productive mentality. Many students go out with the intention of “blackout raging” (a.k.a. “drinking excessively”) several nights a week...