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Blow Hard 2: Blow Harder

Yep, we gots weather. As you can see by the photo, the outside temp is darn low. The picture was taken around 10pm. The strange thing is that it’s lightly snowing, and snow is pretty rare when it’s this cold.
Yesterday was very windy, though not quite as cold unless you count the [...]

Cloven Goofs

Warning: I’m going to talk about a dream I had this morning. I don’t care if hearing about other people’s dreams is boring or inconsequential or inappropriate or obscene, so listen up, dear readers. In this dream, I had just been hired by satirical newspaper The Onion. Actually, I think I was [...]

Spicy Redefined

I don’t understand the concept of Spicy Brown Mustard. It doesn’t seem any spicier to me than normal mustard. It doesn’t seem spicy at all. Maybe my palate is just so used to spicy food that it takes a lot of heat to activate my Spicy Sense. Oh well, it doesn’t [...]

Aborted Launch

Tomorrow is Launch Day for the new Xbox 360 videogame system (mainstream media review here). I always have to have the latest new gadgets, especially video game systems, and I’ve thought long and hard about buying a 360 on Launch Day. But ultimately I’ve decided I’m not going to do it.
Reasons I’m Not [...]

Why I’m Becoming a Hermit, Pt 3

The intrusive banners trumpeting the exciting breaking investigations from the local news continue to intrude on the popular network shows during Sweeps Month. From Wed night’s Lost:

I didn’t watch the advertised special report on teaching bachelors how to date, though I’m sure I could’ve used the advice. From the commercials, it appeared [...]

Are You Ambidextroseous?

During lunch today, one of my co-workers ordered a Diet Pepsi, saying that he was saving his daily non-diet drink allocation for an event tonight where he wanted to be drinking the fully sugared version. The rest of us all thought this was unusual – this switching between artificial sweeteners and sugar. As [...]

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