Archive for January, 2008

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Lost

Last nights episode of Lost might be one of the best they have ever done. I thought MST3K had hijacked the national ABC feed or something. “Sawyer is a bit surly today…”

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Thursday, January 31st, 2008

itunes meme

Instructions: Open up your iTunes and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be. How many songs total: 7281 songsHow many hours or days of music: 23.8 days Most recently played: “Let’s Work” – PrinceMost recently played while I was still listening: “7 [After 6 long Version]” – PrinceMost played: “Kiss [...]

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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

gimme a break, google

Among the myriad ways I can save, export, and share my google docs files, none of them include simply emailing it. Integration among their own products continues to suck.

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

PSA

If you happen to come across the special edition “chocolate cherry diet dr. pepper” DO NOT DRINK IT. You might want to buy some just so someone else doesn’t buy it by mistake. Or maybe to compliment your collection of frankenfood. But certainly don’t buy it to drink it.

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Do I have to turn in my man card?

I voluntarily returned my randomly selected “mid-size” rental of a Ford Mustang. And I returned it for a station wagon. It’s a Dodge Magnum, which is a pretty damn nice station wagon, but still. :) I left the airport in the mustang and headed straight for Walmart. (replacement sunglasses, check! Warmer gloves, check! Long johns, [...]

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Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Grandpa John

My grandpa passed away this morning, in his sleep. He was 82. He lived a good, full life, but had a stroke in the last few years that left him altered and in a nursing home. My grandma, his wife and best friend of almost 60 years, died last year. Now I can hope they’re [...]

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Monday, January 14th, 2008

Little Man Go Long Way

Isaac and I went on our first big post-training wheels ride today. In fact, it’s only his 7th time without them at all, and his 3rd trip on a road. I kept asking him if he was getting tired, and not only was he not tired he seemed eager to keep going. So we did! [...]

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Saturday, January 12th, 2008

A reading from the second letter of Pink to the Corinthians

My daughter may not know much theology, but she’s fairly confident that God is a DJ, life is a dance floor, love is the rhythm, and you are the music

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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Mmmmm

A.V. Club Taste Test Special: The Bowl At The Howling Rim Of Famous-Ity The gravy, which I remembered as being tangy and delicious in my youth, tasted like the idea of blandness, but burned and then salted to cover the horrid taste [...] and the popcorn chicken, breaded to the point of parody, was like [...]

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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Tedium

Nothing says new years doldrums like cleaning out your email address book.

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