Okay people, let's have a little submission competition. What's your entry for "The Ugliest five words in the English Language."...

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There's a quote that keeps running through my head, something I read in an article that Dave lent me recently. ...all around the office, cubicles with 500 dollar ergonomic chairs...

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Just exactly the car we were looking for, in the right price range, it's the last one of the '03 models in the Greater Denver area and one of only...

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I asked Jackie out for the first time on this day back in 1994....

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We often send the dogs down to wake Justin up on the weekends. This morning was no exception. After the boy came upstairs, groggy: Me: Did the dogs get you?...

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While I was over at the Consortium last night, Justin and Jackie were chatting back at our house. Here's a few excerpts: Knowing who to ask: Justin: I have a...

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One of my email taglines is a quote from Frank A. Clark -- someone complimented me on the line today, which prompted me in turn to learn google a bit...

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Nokia - Nokia 7600 Phone Wow. I wonder if you can actually call anyone on it. I can't really tell from the ad, but that would be a really neat...

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I was gonna link to the new matrix trailer that just came out, but the damn thing won't stream all the way down for me, so to heck with that....

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Lost in Space? Returning to TV? And the project involves filmmaker John Woo and Buffy writer, director and producer Doug Petrie? [breif geekgasm] Yeah, I'd probably watch that....

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With all the commenting on The Boy, I've realized I haven't been doing my fair share in the way of illustrating other important relationships in my life. Let's take a...

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High Country Gardens: Drought tolerant plants, perennials, and xeriscaping for western gardens....

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...better than the nether regions, anyway. Scientists in the Netherlands have found a way to display high-definition moving images on wafer-thin electronic paper. Researchers envision future users reading e-mail or...

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Incidently, I really feel the need to recommend the FeedDemon RSS newsfeed Reader for Windows. I've never been a big fan (or even someone who 'gets') RSS feeds, but in...

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An excellent piece on micropayments from The Slumbering Lungfish Dybbuk Hostel and All-Night Boulangerie Shirky argued that most content will stay free because artists want fame more than they want...

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Wired News: 'Push-to-Talk' Spreading Fast If you think drivers yammering on their cell phones are annoying, wait until another wireless service already popular among business users becomes even more prevalent...

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Tonight, I went to a T'ai Chi class, my first in... [counts on fingers] Something like twelve, twelve and a half years....

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Just in case you ever need to explain a typewriter to someone, you can use this. Really cool flash. Doesn't seem to have sound, though, which is a shame....

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Victor Garber, who plays Jack Bristow on Alias, will guest star on It's All Relative on Oct. 29ths Halloween episode as a 'flamboyantly' gay party planner. I must see this....

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A Polish company has reportedly set a world record, stretching the range of a Wi-Fi network 110 Kms at 2.4 GHz, using an antenna developed by them and an Intel...

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Dropped calls. Dead zones. But if you change carriers you have to change your phone number. On November 24, after years of industry delay, cell phone carriers will be required...

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A Softer World: three-panel photo-based comics. Weird. Brilliant. (via Ellis)...

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In our last meeting with Justin's teachers, everyone exchanged email addresses and we were given to understand that his teaching team (mostly my age) were very comfortable communicating with email;...

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$99, 64MB USB keychain with a built-in, no-driver 640x480 camera. When all this technology (PDAs, Phone, Camera, portable harddrive, and lets throw MP3 playback in there as well) comes together...

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A Buddhist priest dubbed the "marathon monk" has completed an ancient running ritual in a Japanese mountain range that took seven years and covered a distance equivalent to a trip...

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"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing." - Aristotle Yesterday, Justin officially became a teenager. The day, for him, consisted...

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Nerve.com's Unsexy List. Kind of hard to disagree with any of it, but here's a few highlights that really rang true. 18. Your cats. Attachment to a non-human mammal that...

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I don't know where that title came from. It just seemed like something fun to shout from a rooftop at night. Anyway... Homes on the Arctic tip of Norway started...

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Underworld Harsh Ebert review sets your expectations low, so I was surprised. We all want a film that fulfills Matrix 2 hype. This won't. That's okay. Some B-movie fun on...

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Ostensibly because you'd have to be living under a rock for the last ten years not to have a 'corrupted' opinion of Radiohead, someone decides to find out how fifth...

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The "Swen" worm arrives in a very official-looking e-mail message that appears to be from Microsoft (and just for a laugh, looks like a patch to prevent just the sort...

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Okay, so I just rebuilt the whole index.html template by hand, since for the life I me it still wasn't loading very fast. (Madeline, would you check it out and...

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The Morning News - TiVo'd I place my hands around hers, gently moving her fingers to the correct buttons. "Open your mind," I say. "Here's what you're saying with the...

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It's the international Talk like a Pirate Day, which should make tonight's Egyptian-themed Necropolis game somewhat... surreal. (link via... everyone)...

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Some genius on Blogcritics eloquently summarizes my thoughts on Radiohead: I hate Radiohead. There I said it. They have got to be the most overrated group to ever grace the...

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I'd really like to see what Carnivàle is all about, because it looks like the kind of thing I'd be into, but with no HBO either our house of that...

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"How do you recognize what is your true dream and what is the dream that you are dreaming for other people to love you? If you enjoy the process, it's...

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A man holds a tentacle of a 'Arcciteuthis Dux' squid on La Isla beach, in northern Spain, September 15, 2003. Scientists are trying to find out what caused two...

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Sleeping position may reveal your personality Sleeping on one's side with legs outstretched and arms down in what Idzikowski refers to as the log, indicates a social, easy-going personality. But...

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Ugh. Sick. Going back to bed....

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In a move aimed squarely at Microsoft, Sun Microsystems unveiled on Tuesday a suite of software for businesses that want to dump -- or just can't afford -- the Windows...

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Lileks reviews "The Core": [...] if it’s midnight, and it comes on cable, and you don’t have to get up tomorrow, and you’ve had a few, and the only other...

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Reading some post-9/11 garbage from Ann Coulter made me realize something that I'd completely missed at the time. Recently, Jackie and I flew back to visit family. The security lines...

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This is one of those squirrelly posts that's kind of complicated. On one hand, I know that some folks are very interested (out of sympathy or clinical curiosity) about how...

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You'd have to be around me quite a bit to know why this bugs the crap out of me, but I feel the need to share. The blue plastic lining...

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One of the things I admire more about ***Dave is his ability to successfully integrate the various aspects of his life so seamlessly (at least it appears seamless to be,...

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Romanian witches are cursing Swiss referee Urs Meier to turn him lame and make him lose his whistling power after their country's European Championship hopes were dashed against Denmark....

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Firefly won an Emmy. Good lord, Buffy never won an Emmy until... okay, never....

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How to make Silly Putty at home. Something to do as a family?...

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Gaiman summarizes: Avalon is a remarkable film -- it looks astonishing, is haunting, deep, frustrating and magical in equal measure, like an art-film version of the Matrix, or a middle-European...

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Just so folks know, I am actually trying to figure out why the main page takes something like a hundred thousand years (I.e.: 12.5 seconds) to load. It's especially frustrating,...

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Invigorating statement of intent at What Was I Thinking? Should it ever come up: In the event that I wind up the victim of violence, on whatever scale, from a...

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I think the great secret to blog longevity is this: whenever you have one of those days where you think to yourself... "why am I doing this anymore? this isn't...

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Coming on the heels of a pleasant, positive visit with one of Justin's teachers at his cool new school on Tuesday, this morning's memo from the school kind of knocks...

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Johnny Cash dead at 71. John Ritter dead at 54. For different reasons, I am surprised and dismayed by both these events. (Thanks to Xkot for this link to Cash's...

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General asshatsCircle I LimboGray DavisCircle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy WindPETA MembersCircle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & SnowGeorge BushCircle IV Rolling WeightsMilitant Vegans, ScientologistsCircle V Stuck in...

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Brian mentions something really cool/disturbing about spelling errors. Acocdrnig to an elgnsih unviesitry sutdy the oredr of letetrs in a wrod dosen't mttaer, the olny thnig thta's iopmrantt is that...

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Cambodians are being urged to eat more dogs as part of a crackdown on stray mutts wandering around the capital of the southeast Asian nation. Gods forfend they ever have...

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Check out the Global Rich List for a shocking display of where the wealth really lies in the world....

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Firefly wins TeeVee Awards '03: Most Unjust Cancellations Award. But we still must wail against the cancellation of Firefly. Granted, the show's first aired episodes were a bit shaky. But...

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My inner child is sixteen years old! Life's not fair! It's never been fair, but while adults might just accept that, I know something's gotta change. And it's gonna change,...

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A female someone called the house tonight and asked if Justin could come over on Friday night and watch a movie. That would be a date, folks. Anyway, when he...

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Me: So... what's the plan tonight? How about we [watch the movie you've been avoiding]? Her: ... eh... you know what we could do? You could [assemble that thing you...

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We used to joke that Disney was going to hate DVDs, since a bunch of their revenue during the era of VCR tapes was from parents who had to repurchase...

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Visited Justin's school for the first time today -- it's gorgeous, just gorgeous. Upon entering the building you walk into a huge central common area that lacks only sunshine and...

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"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." - Richard Bach I guess that would explain the rabid procrastination today....

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A really cool web-site optimization tool that tells you how your page rates in terms of load-time, as well as how to fix some of the issues....

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Add Pirates of the Carribean to the "early December DVD release list", alongside Alias - Second Season, Buffy - Season Five, and Firefly....

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Interview - Neil Gaiman: Talks about the Neverwhere DVD, the short film he worked on, and the movie adaptation of Death: the High Cost of Living. Also, a review of...

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we want your soul will offer me £6885 for my soul. (Apparently, a shocking 85% of people have a purer soul than you.) (via Perverse Access Memory)...

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Sweden's Lund University, one of the oldest seats of learning in Scandinavia, will take a leap into the unknown by appointing northern Europe's first professor of parapsychology, hypnology and clairvoyance....

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Rant in the Globe & Mail from Spider Robinson regarding the current state of science fiction. He opines that SF readers today seem to prefer fantasies rather than the forward-looking...

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Free online tool that converts PDF to HTML. I see uses for this. (via Nick Bradbury, via FeedDemon)...

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"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day." - John A. Wheeler Vaguely work-safe: Digitally retouching a 'supermodel' shot. Don't believe what...

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It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. - Dr. Howard Murphy Allow me to disagree. *ahem* So this morning: - Pickup won't start. - Missed meeting with Justin's...

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Tomorrow we have to get up very early, hopefully getting stand-by seating on the morning flight to Denver and NOT missing Justin's second football game. Wish us luck....

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Just a brief summary of the week, so I can remember what needs some further attention at a later time: Note that this is entirely for my own reminders, so...

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One of the more annoying bits of being on the road and visiting family is that I think of tons of things I'd like to write down or blog, but...

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Today was our fourth wedding anniversary. One more year and we'll have (nearly) been married for the MAJORITY of the time we've been together....

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LifeSavers has announced a new flavor lineup for its classic, nearly 70-year-old five-flavor roll. Raspberry-, watermelon (YUCK!)- and blackberry-flavored "O's" will replace the traditional orange(???), lemon and lime. Replace Orange?...

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"Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else." -- James Thorpe The birthday party ended with little to no problem (except for one unwelcome, untrained,...

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