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Wow, Five Years Blog

Posted on March 6, 2012 by baudattitude

Posts have been a bit sporadic of late, which I’m going to blame on a slip back into MMO addiction and a job that doesn’t give me a lot of time for on-the-clock navel gazing, but I noticed that this … Continue reading →

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Department of Redundancy Department

Posted on December 9, 2011 by baudattitude

A co-worker waylaid me with a question this morning. Pointing at her computer monitor, she asked me “Can you read German?” I looked at the screen, and it was plainly in German, but beyond that basic conclusion it was pretty … Continue reading →

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The perils of importing media

Posted on November 17, 2011 by baudattitude

One of the things about being a bit of a geek from an early age is that you’re exposed to the notion that other countries have things that are cooler than you can get at home.  When I was a … Continue reading →

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I don’t consider myself a movie snob…

Posted on November 13, 2011 by baudattitude

…but even having said that, there was a distinct problem with the “Classic Movies” category available on my recent United flight back from overseas: I’m going to rank this somewhere between “faith in humanity failing” and “well, civilization has had … Continue reading →

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The wangs of London

Posted on November 10, 2011 by baudattitude

I do apologize in advance; this is the sort of childish humor I don’t normally like to lower myself to but it made me giggle like, well, a child seeing something a little naughty when I saw it and I … Continue reading →

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This is the sort of thing my wife has to put up with

Posted on August 18, 2011 by baudattitude

Her text is in white, my reply in green It’s a wonder that she hasn’t strangled me in my sleep yet.  

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I have some pretty keen friends

Posted on July 17, 2011 by baudattitude

No new updates for a while usually means that I’m sucked into an MMO, this time is an exception in that I have been sucked into quite a few excellent single player games over the last couple of weeks and … Continue reading →

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I’m better at Wedding Anniversaries

Posted on April 29, 2011 by baudattitude

…somehow I missed that this thing had actually passed its fourth anniversary back in March without me noticing. Whoops. Normally I’d say something like “in my defense, I was incredibly busy with school” or the like, but I was actually … Continue reading →

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Be careful what you ask for.

Posted on April 27, 2011 by baudattitude

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m spending my days post-graduation but pre-real-job working as a help desk technician for the school, which means that I occasionally have to interact with students. Generally I am actually quite a nice person, but today … Continue reading →

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My iPhone is tracking me (and it turns out I’m really boring)

Posted on April 20, 2011 by baudattitude

So, there have been a couple of articles in the news today about how iOS devices constantly record your approximate location based on cell phone tower triangulation and how it’s stored in a file on your computer and how this … Continue reading →

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