You might know that for the last two years I have been testing with the Seattle Fire Dept. I made it through last years process to finish in the top 25% but never received a job offer. I started the process again this year back in January with a written test that took several hours. I passed and was invited to an oral board interview a month or so ( Read more... )

Half Acre
(Dan Messe)

I am holding half an acre
Torn from the map of Michigan
And folded in this scrap of paper
Is the land I grew in

Think of every town you've lived in
Every room you lay your head
And what is it that you remember

Do you carry every sadness with you
Every hour your heart was broken
Every night the fear and darkness
Lay down with ( Read more... )

Yay! I'm an uncle again! Not that I stopped being one, it's just I've added another niece to the list. My twin brother and his wife just welcomed their new daughter, Isabella, to the family. Good job guys! Wish I was there to babysit, but, well.... 3000 miles is kinda far to go to babysit. Sorry! Can't wait to get back and visit.

Hey, I'm back! From outer space, I just walk in to find you there.... wait, that's an old diso song ( Read more... )

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You did it at some point as a kid, slyly let a superball loose on some street. Maybe it was a hill to see how far it would go. Maybe it was from the top of a parking garage, or out a window. Because it's a SUPERBALL. It has super powers. It picks up speed as it hits things and shoots off in another direction. You know that you always wanted to do ( Read more... )

lifted from bearpawley01. Opening Credits: "Grace, too" -- The Tragically Hip ( Read more... )

I can't remember the last time I anticipated a movie getting to the theaters so much.

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You probably won't care about this entry if you don't know anything about Mac OS X or Apple's move to a future of Intel hardware... so I'll put it behind the cut..

( click here for OS X Tiger running on Intel hardware )

"The brain does not know the difference between what it sees and what it remembers"

Discuss.