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Month: December 2005


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The Christmas Post

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I almost neglected to put up The Christmas Post; my apologies. (And, my apologies for all the semi-colons tonight; that one was on purpose.) Christmas was wonderfully dull. After opening our gifts at home (and after smoked salmon and capers on cream-cheese-topped crackers), we got ready to head out. We were supposed to have the […]

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It's a Jeep Thing

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I am now in the league of happy surburbanites who have a) a house and b) an SUV. Tonight, we bought a 2003 Jeep Liberty. It’s the Sport edition, which is the low end, but it halved the milage on our primary vehicle and lowered the payment by almost $80 (I got shafted on my […]

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That Feeling Again

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Do you ever watch a movie and sit there, staring at the credits, pretty sure that you missed something? And then, as you talk it over with the other people who watched it with you, you start to realize that none of them, intelligent as they are, caught that it. And then, as the conversation […]

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Quick question

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What exactly do you have to eat to have this dream? You’re trapped in a Mexican town (which you know because there are lots of Mexican people around) but it’s surrounded by corn. You also know that you have to kill a famous 40’s villian 8 times in different settings, since he has 8 lives, […]

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Bloglines down today

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Bloglines, my RSS aggregator of choice, will be going down today for around 6 hours (if all goes well) for a data center upgrade. The linked news post basically says that they are a victim of their own success, which is great news for them as a company. However, I have to wonder why they […]