Absence is Present Today, I received the latest version of Aperture in the mail. For those who aren’t familiar with Aperture, it’s a magazine (periodical) devoted to photography. Not photography in the sense of Shutterbug…
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And the Gold Goes to…Olympic Sports that Weren’t The Olympics always seem to have one defining moment. One moment where we collectively hold our breaths, clench our fists, wonder in amazement at how they pulled…
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An Urban Legend in His Own Mind Remember that urban legend? The one about the guy who plants his butt down in a lawn chair with a shotgun, attaches weather balloons to the arm rests,…
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Testing, Testing… Blogger has been having trouble lately so I’m generating this test posting to see if it’s back and stable again. I’ll continue posting when they fix it, or at least get it to…
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Drive on, you DINK! I suspect that we all do it-making up words as we speak. Sometimes, our words come from other words, sometimes, we do it as a manner of convenience, and sometimes, we…
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The Folks in Florida Now Know This weekend hurricane Charley hit the gulf coast of Florida, knocking it for a loop and, I have to admit, I’m not surprised. I’m not surprised that a hurricane…
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Leave it Behind and Slowly Back Away Last night I was reading something I had scribbled down on a piece of paper and I could hardly make out my own handwriting. The note said, “I’m…
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Extremely Narly Longboards Today’s wardrobe item of choice is a blue-ishly colored T-shirt from Hawaii with this moniker scribbled upon it. I don’t know exactly what it means but, having a degree in communications allows…
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Odds and Ends It’s not ofte and it’s been a while since I’ve written about odds and ends. These are the summary of all the little things which, when taken alone, are not large enough…
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Bad Blogger, No Links Before I was typing away at a reasonably good posting when, poof, out of the blue, blogger ate my message. It’s not often that blogger swallows whole my daily positing, in…
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Campaign Kickoff We keep hearing different stories from the candiates. It’s degraded into a giant game of “he said, she said, he lied, I was misquoted” and we’re all going to lose. Despite our best…
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But It’s Such a Pretty Blue Screen of Death My computer at home is very close to being finished. I think, in the entire process of backing up data, uploading data, installed a new Windows…
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The World’s Fastest Confuser Recently, I’ve been busy setting up my home computer. When all is said and done, it’s the little things that really get to me. For example, I installed a wireless card…
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Taking Stock People sometimes ask me for stock tips. Sometimes they ask my advice, wanting a “hot tip,” or they just want to share in which stocks I’m currently tracking. It’s part of trading, I…
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“You Need a Role Model” I watched a movie last night. I know, to the untrained eye, this may seem like a usual event, but this is me. I hardly ever watch movies, unless I…
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Going, Going, Gone for It It’s a baby step from wanting to “go for it” to the realization that you’ve just shot yourself in the foot. Sometimes though, it’s the choice we have to make.…
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The Un-Blogger What I want, what I really really want, is a capability of un-blogging. Sure I know you can go back and edit your prior posts. I know you can trace back and wipe…
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Earth over Water/Mind over Matter I was thinking the other day, as I always seem to do, about life in general and my current circumstance in particular. The one thing that struck me as odd,…
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Modest Mouse There’s been this song I keep hearing on the radio. I kind of like it, in a cliched anthemy kind of way. For a long time, I didn’t know what it was called…
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Freedom of Pizza There’s been a story playing out on the news for the past few days, that I find amusing and perhaps a little frightening. As we all know (perhaps too well) the Democratic…
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