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Linkmania -- understanding other perspectives
I know that most of my Linkmanias are pretty throwaway...this one has considerably more substance and is probably worth your time to look through.
Same-sex marriage:- Much of the way the two sides on the same-sex marriage issue seem to be talking past each other comes down to different concepts of what marriage fundamentally is and what its purpose ( Read more... )
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It's the little things...
So I just took a multivitamin. A perfectly ordinary Costco-brand Centrum-clone multivitamin. Thing is, it's the first time I've been able to do that in a year or so. Something about going in this morning and getting the stricture in my esophagus stretched to 15mm. (It was 7mm until last month's exploratory endoscopy; getting the endoscope past ( Read more... ) -
Quick update
To update my possibly-cryptic post from yesterday: Went in Friday for an endoscopy and a colonoscopy. Endoscopy found that, yes, my mid-esophagus is rather constricted. In fact, they opened it up a bit just getting the endoscope through. Current theory is that it's allergy-related...no idea yet whether it's a food allergy or a pollen-type ( Read more... ) -
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Survived procedure. More later when I'm fully awake. Few polyps downstairs (so repeat every 5 years). Constriction upstairs is quite real and likely t -
Linkmania -- videos I found on Buzzfeed
Stupid:- It's an Adidas commercial, set to run around the upcoming World Cup. I'm just trying to figure out how you create something that lame and that unoriginal and then close with that slogan.
Eeep-worthy:- Near the end of this video, a participant in the Red Bull Air Races has a very near-miss.
Awesome:- Ozzy Osbourne spends some time at Madame ( Read more... )
- It's an Adidas commercial, set to run around the upcoming World Cup. I'm just trying to figure out how you create something that lame and that unoriginal and then close with that slogan.
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Linkmania: People
People are scary...- There's dedication to your craft, and then there's contracting tropical diseases from the water hole you immersed yourself in for hours at a time, every day, over a period of weeks so you could get some Fucking Amazing Pictures.
...awesome...- "In Denmark, Mukhtar the bus driver had a birthday. He worked that day. His regular ( Read more... )
- There's dedication to your craft, and then there's contracting tropical diseases from the water hole you immersed yourself in for hours at a time, every day, over a period of weeks so you could get some Fucking Amazing Pictures.
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Vote!
If you're a registered voter in the state of Arizona, remember to go vote today. Polls close at 7. -
How To Train Your Dragon
- It's sitting at 98% on the Tomato-Meter.
- It is that good. Really excellent animation, tight writing, wonderful characters, and top-notch voice acting. Toy Story 3 is going to have to be as good as its predecessors to contend for the animated Oscar this year.
- Go see it. Unless doing so messes with you in some fashion, go see it in 3-D. The ( Read more... )
- It's sitting at 98% on the Tomato-Meter.
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