Archive for April, 2007
The Packrat Versus the Archivist
My mother in-law is a Pack Rat. She goes to yard sales, swap meets, closeouts and random stores and just buys stuff - everything: dishes, books, gadgets, containers, furniture, doo-dads, whatever - everything.Sometimes she convinces herself that she needs it for her home or life, sometimes she convinces herself she will give it as a [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2007 under About Me, Geekdom, Rants.
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Doctors We Don’t Hate
The biggest single thing I miss about my hometown of Fresno, CA was my doctor. He was great: He was older (50s when I first started going to him), but very smart and up-to-date on all the latest medical journals, research AND pop-culture trends. He was really down-to earth and straight-talking. He wasn’t “directive”-based in [...]
Posted: April 16th, 2007 under Fresno, Health.
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Live From the Hills O’er Blacksburg…
“…And the President told reporters that, while he is against killing people, he’s scared to say anything bad about guns for fear that Charlton Heston will shoot his ass up. Back to you, Kevin.”
Posted: April 17th, 2007 under Americana.
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Some Thoughts…
…On the ‘Revelations’ coming out of Blacksburg…
What is it with these people having so many friends in college? I don’t think I made a single ‘friend’ in college - it’s not like high school where you get classes with people in your neighborhood and have scheduled class breaks and lunches where you’re forced to socialize. [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2007 under Americana, Economics.
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Apple’s “Cool”. Ew.
I am seriously considering switching over to all-Windows products. Why?
Because this never-ending, annoying marketing campaign by Apple has convinced me that if I keep using Apple products I’ll turn into a gross metrosexual hipster who doesn’t know how to use a spreadsheet.
How do these hipsters afford their expensive Mac do-dads when they can’t even stomach [...]
Posted: April 27th, 2007 under Mac, creative clASS.
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