Foul Language

I’d hate to bite the hand that will potentially feed me, but I have no choice. As we advance in the methods of communication, we lose quality in what is said. I’m sure the more lucid of us knows what I mean, however all those “l33t” folk may be a tad lost. So, let me…

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What the Fortune?!

There are idiots in the world. I know; I’ve seen them; they’re often on Wheel of Fortune. It was tonight’s edition where it happened that I lost faith in the human race- not that I had found it prior to tonight, but you get the point. The category was “Song/Artist” – meaning that there would…

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Those Darn Celebrities 01/07/03

Popped Idle At last, at long last, we may have found the straw that’ll collapse the celebrity world in on itself. People with sense in their heads cheered as 20something teen sensation Britney Spears got married to a childhood friend as a gag, knowing that this may be jolt the public consciousness needs to realize…

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Standard New Years Resolution #42 – Enlightenment

Along with subscribing to everyone’s favorite resolution – getting fit – I have decided to enlighten myself in all matters of things. Right now I am a fountain of useless trivia – good for shouting at game shows, but little else. I need to get more functional. I started this endeavor prior to New Years…

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Standard New Years Resolution #2 – Getting Fit

Happy New Year to all, first off. At the stroke of midnight on that fateful night each year, many of the sober of us (and those not so) declare our goals for the coming calendar. Some are lofty, vowing monumental changes not even possible with a crate of ambrosia at the ready. Some are more…

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Winter hath returned!

Today, for those of you elsewhere than where I am, the East Coast was, or still is rather, ravaged by a “Nor’easter.” Again, for the benefit of those in sunnier places, a nor’easter is this: blizzard conditions accompanied by torrential rains, winds, floods, thunder and lightning and the occasional locusts. They usually begin on a…

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Validating My Parking

One of my meager goals in life is to one day have someone, anyone, quote me… and quote me correctly with proper citation, etc. It doesn’t have to be taken in context; nothing worth noting ever is taken in context. Nor does it have to shed upon me a positive light; the citation could be…

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Science Round-up 11/13/03

Taking Face Face Transplants Now Possible – BBC News / Clipped Article Quothe the article – “The prospect of transplanting a face from a dead person to another living person was first raised by plastic surgeons one year ago. (BBC News)” And so it is done, and in only one years time. Wow, who knew…

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