• The toilet seat and and lid are to be lowered when not in use (public toilets are exempt)
• The toilet paper and paper towels feed over the front of the roll
• The lid on the candy jar is to be properly seated
• Documents are to be properly-aligned when placed in the inbox (not laid in "sideways")
• Papers must be neatly jogged before being stapled

"What you can do... What I can do... That is God. Respect it accordingly."

--"The Haitian" (Heroes)
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Almost everyone, when asked, will say that they would give their life for a friend ( Read more... )

3 months ago I sent a letter to about 300 members of Congress ( Read more... )

A friend once put forth that there is more flavor in a single sesame seed than in a handful.

A decade and a half later, I think I begin to taste her understanding.
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In my ongoing progress towards OS freedom (leaving Windows and embracing Linux), I've moved my bittorrent duties from my ancient Windows box to my spiffy new Linux box [1]. For a couple years now, I've been using BitTornado as my torrent client. I like it. It's simple, clean, and effective. Yes, it opens a new client session for every torrent ( Read more... )

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For those of you who pay attention to such things (or are stalking me), you may have noticed that I haven't posted for the last couple weeks. Christmas was, of course, part of that. The other part is the fact that I took a vacation. It's been 2 years since I've taken more than a day off, and those days were doing mundane tasks around the house ( Read more... )

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It's all in the science.
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