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Category Archives: random
On the hazards of homonyms
So I’ll just sum up a couple of conversations between me and my long-suffering wife over the last few weeks: First conversation, some while ago: Me: “Hey, I ordered a Switch off Amazon” Her: *vague grunt of assent* Second conversation, … Continue reading
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Lost a gaming buddy
For some reason, our neighborhood seems to get more than its share of stray cats, and most of them are terribly cautious of people. Occasionally, one of them will pick our back porch as a place to hole up, and … Continue reading
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Cube Swag++
So, confessions time: I’ve been a west coaster most of my life, and the US east coast scares the heck out of me. I’m pretty sure that, if I ever happen to visit New York or Boston, I will be … Continue reading
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This is for kids, right?
Oh hey, it’s a Pokémon with a bone, guy looks like he came out of the Flintstones. Cute! Wait, what? WHAT What in the actual hell, Nintendo? I have no previous exposure to Pokémon outside of seeing the first half-dozen … Continue reading
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In which, I succumb to gamification
So, a little backstory here. Literally. For a few years now, I have had recurring pain in the lower right corner of my back, something that I chalked up to the inevitable advances of age. Never enough to be serious, … Continue reading
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Finding your Amazon Locker Pickup Code
Edit: This post has been getting a lot of hits and I figure you are all probably very busy and don’t want to read a boring story before getting to the answer. Check the “Tracking” screen for your package in … Continue reading
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The Internet was a mistake
I was probably exposed to the Internet too early – both in that I was in my teens and that it was the mid 1980s, before the advent of the world wide web, before anyone but the government and colleges … Continue reading
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The Last Night and the Big Character Poster
Warning: Random social commentary post follows, which is quite out of the ordinary for this blog. I apologize in advance, and invite you to come back again tomorrow for such riveting topics as “which Dragon Age character I would most … Continue reading
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Why my wife will murder me, and why it is totally justified.
For the record, I usually do my own laundry and she was doing me a huge favor here.
Nerdvana
I’m feeling particularly slack today and my desk is almost clean. Time for an easy post. Mind you, it’s clean because I decided to finally get down to business and wrangle the nests of cables underneath into submission, a process … Continue reading
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