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Life, Minutiae, Toys, Irrational Phobias, Peeves, Fiber

Adams Mark

I was never much interested in History. I don’t even remember taking many history classes in school. All I remember is that the past bored me to tears, especially American history. As I get older, I’ve found that my tastes and interests are changing, and that I’m becoming more and more fascinated [...]

Beam Me A Copy, Scotty

I think I’ve mentioned before that my cubicle at work is very near the network printer/copier. And it’s a very noisy and distracting printer. This printer malfunctions on almost a daily basis, so it has lots of issues. Chief among those issues is that whenever it starts up, the initial sound it [...]

The Boredom Of The Chase

Is it mere coincidence that tonight I watched last night’s episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and then read a news article about the threat posed by killer robots? I think not.
BTW, I am enjoying the show, though possibly not as much as I should. I like that it has direction and [...]

Puttin’ On The Glitz

Tune in tonight for an unprecedented second-post-in-a-day entry where I’ll blog live about the Academy Awards presentation. I’ll let you know what I think of the fashions, the writing, Jon Stewart’s jokes, the speeches, the production numbers, the tributes, the commercials, the mistakes… everything. All here, all live!
Just kidding. The gf and [...]

The PDA’s A Better Friend

Favorite recent Google search term that led someone to this blog: “is the television a good or bad friend”. The television is a bad friend, my friend. Oh, you think it’s giving, but it’s really just taking and taking (mostly your time). It can’t help you move. It can’t drive you [...]

Salvaging The Wasteland

Yee haw, the 3-month old WGA Strike is over at last. Writers are expected to return to work tomorrow. So, Sue will be happy to hear that tomorrow’s Daily Show (and Colbert Report) should have some of that old zing back. I’m happy about that too. Hopefully the writers can get [...]

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