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Pet Peeve of the Day: Server malfunctions.
Yesterday, the streak came very close to ending. “The streak”, of course, refers to the number of consecutive days of blog posting. I’ve been doing it every day since 10/30/07, which by my reckoning makes this the 291st daily post in a row. Originally, I was [...]

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Movie Review Sunday! I watched two discs yesterday.
The first one was A Dog’s Breakfast. This is a little low-budget comedy made by some of the Stargate Atlantis and SG-1 people during their hiatus from the show. I think I ran across it when Netflixing the new direct-to-DVD Stargate movies. If you [...]

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Pet Peeve of the Day: Being trapped inside a Boston Market while a torrential downpour floods the streets. ‘Round about 7pm this evening, heavy rains, lightning, and high winds pelted the metro Denver area, and it seemed like we were right in the thick of it. It started right after N and I [...]

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There’s an interesting article in Next American City about the changing face of the suburbs. It’s particularly relevant to me as it uses my town Lakewood as an example of a new type of city coined a “Cosmoburb”, which means “wealthy suburbs that are also diverse and that increasingly contain non-traditional households”. The [...]

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Random Pet Peeves Of The Day that may eventually gel into some kind of theme:

NetFlix is talking about charging extra for HiDef movies. Though I suppose it’s inevitable, I’m not happy about it. I came really close to canceling my NetFlix subscription awhile back because I wasn’t watching DVDs fast enough and so [...]

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I finally went jogging again this morning after a break. It’s not like I’ve had any health issues or anything. I just haven’t had time in the morning lately. And I don’t like running when it’s hot. Yesterday we broke the record for the most consecutive days over 90°, and the heat shows [...]

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