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Monthly Archives: February 2010
The Orchard is Filled with Apples Worm-Ridden and Not
AUTHOR NOTE: I was rummaging through my closets and I came upon a stack of notebooks filled with random writing. I remember writing the piece I am presenting here in reaction to the a few things. First, I would get upset when I see a movie or read a book that could have been so [...]
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Perfunctory technobabble in order to claim this blog on Technorati.com. Claim code: EZ3M8GSAX54B
Posted in Technically Insightful
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Nobody uses the internet on Friday
Do you want to know a secret? Today is Friday and the fact of the matter is, nobody, I mean NOBODY uses the internet on Friday.Β It is like finding out there is a perfectly good sports car in the garage with the keys in it and nobody is driving it.Β WWFBD? What would Ferris [...]
Posted in Curiosities
Tagged Baby Got Back, curvy women, ferris bueller, kidnapping, ninjas, nutiof, pirates, thrill seeking, Ultimate Reality
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Be Human
At lunch I was listening to a podcast of On The Media, an NPR show that analyzes the media. Bob Garfield was inteviewing Don Corrigan, the editor of The Webster-Kirkwood Times who had covered a shooting in his hometown. He spoke about receiving phone calls from national press asking for interviews. He received one call [...]
Posted in Excogitations, Featured Posts
Tagged bob garfield, emotion, empathy, humanity, npr, on the media, self improvement
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Nobody uses the internet on Friday
Another Friday and look at that, the internet is just sitting there, unused. Now is the time for me to take it and do with it what I want. The new ‘search’ of the internet is ‘local’. I know, all these phrases and words that barely make sense are the new ‘I want to punch [...]
Posted in Curiosities
Tagged buzz, crime, foursquare, geolocation, gowalla, latitude, nutiof, Please Rob Me, predictable human
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Luck As A Skill?
Be lucky – it’s an easy skill to learn – Telegraph (via Lifehacker) There is a lot of interesting information being passed in this article about this fascinating study. I feel like I qualify as a generally unlucky person. I also qualify as a tense person. I’m the proverbial cat in a room full of [...]
