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Ha

Friday, April 29th, 2005

I have an evil little grin, usually paired with an impolite cackle, and I find myself using them both fairly often.

Nine Inch Nails has made available on MySpace a streaming download of their next album, With Teeth, due out next week. Pretty farking cool. They also…
WHAT THE HELL
Some video from Life Church just opened up Windows Media Player and started talking about overcoming Fear. Is this a joke? This is like [...]

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Hello Wordpress!

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

I’ve switched blog software over to Wordpress, so forgive me if things are a little wonky around here for a while.

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Spammers suck

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

Kill the golden goose, assholes. Thanks to comment spammers, my server got totally bogged down. Therefore, commenting is disabled. I’m going to have to look into another blogging system where the comments aren’t so easily targeted by the bottomfeeders.
Anyway, here’s a quiz - can anyone identify this song?

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Irony

Monday, April 25th, 2005

The strange and ironic tale of Russia’s Amber Room. Germany builds Russia a treasure in 1700s; Germany absconds with said treasure during WWII; Russia inadvertently destroys treasure whilst occupying German stonghold.
Better get that knee looked at.
Real or fake?
Nothing like $8000 Hot Wheels.

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Prius geekus

Monday, April 25th, 2005

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Good and bad

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

Good: Went to Scarborough Faire today, and the kids had a ball.
Bad: It’s smaller and not nearly as fun as Texas Renaissance Festival.
Good: The Prius averaged 45.5 MPG for this tank of gas.
Bad: I had a stomach bug at the festival today and spent more time in the privy than anywhere else.
Good: The kind medic [...]

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MPGee Whiz

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

First 100 miles in the Prius, city driving. 45.6 MPG. About four times what we get in the Suburban!
I’m thinking about getting ceramic window tint on the windows - it doesn’t interfere with cell phone or GPS signals like the metallic film does, and it has a “No Fault” guarantee, meaning if you [...]

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