Month: November 2006
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Ooh, why didn’t I think of this before?
In the southwest suburbs’ local paper this week, there is a fullpage ad for a scam the EdenPURE 500 (R)(tm)(c)(processed cheese food), a space heater making all sorts of ridculous claims and using scare tactics to warn gullible readers away from those “other” space heaters. Did you know… this special space heater uses a quartz…
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The Talk
I’m back in Chicago for a long, much-needed Thanksgiving break. The other night my dad and I were relaxing shooting the bull, and the subject of my romantic life or lack thereof came up… and I ended up getting the talk. No, not that one…puberty was long ago. This was the “gee, son, it looks…
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Dequeue
Fuck. I think I’ve slept a total of 14h this entire week. Which is usually more than enough to keep me out of bizarre mental states, but in general, me + extreme sleep deprivation = unpleasant. Getting all my work shizzle together before my trip back to chicago this+next week. Today I have… Recoded the…
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And nothing lasts forever, even cold november rain
This Sunday I found myself at the MIT fields in the middle of a downpour, watching a bunch of older guys re-live their glory days with an all-out game of rugby, tackling the shit out of each other. The game was arranged for TvS’s very-belated 50th birthday…there was at least one guy out there who…
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I need a spillproof keyboard
Overheard on LJ::Grammargasm Someone said, in response to the election results, “Bush is a sitting duck at this point.” They meant lame duck. But I think it’s funnier the first way. To which someone replied: […] And yeah, don’t call him a duck while Cheney’s around.
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On tow trucks, Medford MA, and crooked dealings therewith
After allowing myself my one day to stay in and be a code monkey, I came out of my house this morning around 9:30 to find the street eerily empty. Sometime between yesterday and today, Medford’s famous No-Notice Street Sweeping was scheduled for my area. How this works is, sometime on an arbitrarily-selected Sunday afternoon,…
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Sunday is code monkey day
+5 Ward against Distraction For the next 24 hours, target ally is equipped with a Ward against Distractions while coding. While so equipped, target is immune from interruptions arising from social responsibilities and has a 50% chance to “block” LJ, instant messages and lengthy going-nowhere phone calls. A man can dream, can’t he? Anyway, I…