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Mar 23
Movie Review: The Hunger Games
I haven’t read The Hunger Games, and haven’t really paid attention to the book series. I had the barest concept of the story from The Baby, who liked the first book, was cool to the second, and hated the third. So I had pretty much no expectations going in. I only went because the girls …
Mar 21
Alabama: 40 Hour Week
The other day I was listening to Alabama’s 40 Hour Week, a song I had heard countless times. But one lyric stood out to me that I hadn’t noticed before: “But the fruits of their labor are worth more than their pay And it’s time a few of them were recognized.” I’m not sure if …
Mar 17
Gaels
“For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.” –G.K. Chesterton, from The Ballad of the White Horse
Mar 15
Disable stupid Lion feature
I used my first Mac in 1984 and absolutely loved it, and I’ve been using a Mac daily since 1997. At work I have the privilege of running a 24″ iMac, along with my standard Windows boxes running XP and Win 7. I recently installed Apple’s newest OS, Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). It doesn’t …
Mar 14
Donkeys, horses, asses, and mules: part 1
For those of you confused about the difference between donkeys, asses, and mules (I assume you can identify horses), this is for you. I hope I get all the terminology right, because each creature gets it own word based on gender, species, parentage, and whether or not it (in the case of males) has been …
Mar 03
Wind beneath my wings
One time Kaleb and I went to work on a printer. While we were there, a young female doctor was in the room. The three of us bantered back and forth for a while until the printer was finally fixed and it began to spit out backed up print jobs. Doctor: “You guys are the …
Feb 29
Poker Advice #1
“If a new player is a financial liability, the good player gets him out of the game. The simplest way to eliminate an undesirable player is not to invite him to the next game. If this is not possible, the good player forces him out by – encouraging unpleasant and unfriendly incidents toward him irritating …
Feb 26
“Yay! You have provided magic!”
This is what one of my customers told me this morning when I fixed her problem without actually doing anything.
Feb 23
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D
So I was doing some research for another post and I stumbled across this: You can read about it here.
