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Pet Peeve of the Day: By now, I’m sure everyone’s seen the “Chewing It Over” commercials for Twix candy bars, which feature guys in potentially embarrassing situations who take a moment to munch on candy before deciding what to say, thereby saving themselves. They’re like the old Mentos ads, except… y’know… coherent. The [...]

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It’s Movie Review Sunday! I saw two movies yesterday, one in the theater and one on DVD.
The theater movie was The Incredible Hulk. Based on how many people were in the theater (8 including myself), I don’t think it’s going to be in the theaters for much longer. Although Saturday morning shows [...]

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Pet Peeve of the Day: This week, I got a huge 900-page JC Penney catalog in the mail:

In this day and age, why do they even make and send out these things?? It’s much easier to shop on the Internet and not deal with these tree-eating monsters. The thing is just going right into [...]

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I’ve been waiting for this for almost twenty years.
Yesterday, they finally opened up the new C-470/Alameda interchange, which makes it a lot faster/easier for me to get onto the highway closest to my home. This interchange has been rumored practically ever since I moved in, 18 years ago. I had begun to give [...]

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Pet Peeve of the Day: On the eve of Bill Gates’ departure from the company he built, it seems only right to complain about Microsoft. So here’s my latest beef. Sometime in the past several months, they changed the Windows Update procedure (for Windows XP at least) so that updates are only installed [...]

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Woo hoo! I finally done did it!
Portrait of an obsession:
I haven’t talked about video games in awhile, mostly because I haven’t been playing them as much as I’d like. I got derailed playing Grand Theft Auto IV on the PS3 when I bought The Orange Box and started playing one of its games, [...]

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