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Entries from May 2006

Out Of Sercive 2

May 13th, 2006 · Comments Off

Since I know y’all are so anticipating getting an update to this old post, here it is. Yes, the photo kiosk at Safeway is still out of order. As always. Sorry for the inconvience.
FYI, I have a sort of new goal of posting at least one new picture a day to my [...]

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Tags: Signage

Floods and Hurricanes

May 12th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Noah didn’t wait for the rain to build the ark? Well yeah, but he had plenty of warning, from like, God. It’s not as if the government had any warning about Hurricane Katrina. Oh wait… I totally get it now. Good advice. (Here’s the larger, more legible photo.)
Latre.

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Tags: Signage

Where Does The Colon Go?

May 8th, 2006 · 6 Comments

Even though it stars the Master Vole, my friend Bryce and I went to see Mission: Impossible III this weekend. I’m sure to many it’s not saying much, but I did enjoy it more than the first two. I think this was largely due to the involvement of director J.J. Abrams, creator of [...]

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Tags: Movies · Voles

What’s Wrong With My Ears?

May 6th, 2006 · 11 Comments

I long to be able to be hip and wear earbud-style headphones when I’m listening to my iPod. But I just can’t. They fall right out of my ears. I must have mutant ears, since there is nothing to hold the earbuds in them. Won’t somebody please take a look at [...]

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Tags: Personal · Whining

Thunderbirds Are Go!

May 3rd, 2006 · 3 Comments

My satellite TV upgrade is at last complete, as I now have a working Dish ViP622 HD DVR receiver. Just sent the first one back - it would not output a signal on the modulated coax output to my other TVs on the distribution network, so I could only watch programs on the big [...]

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Tags: Home Theater · Television

Consumer Alert!

May 1st, 2006 · 4 Comments

We interrupt this blog…
I don’t usually like to shill for commercial ventures, but this is too cool to not pass along. Threadless.com, whom I raved about in this post, is having a summer sale through the end of the week: all T-shirts $10 each. Great bargain for some cool shirts. Look at [...]

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Tags: General