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Dilemma: I’m building a Snoopy doghouse for photos at my daughter’s 1-year birthday party.

(1) Should I just build a facade, or make it a full-blown, functional doghouse?

(2) If I just make a facade, what should I put behind it so that we can make it appear as if midgets are ( Read more... )

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I’ve moved my site to a new server, after almost a decade of using the same old dusty debian box. If you’re reading this and I host your sites, please contact me via subspace radio. At the end of November, the old server will bite the dust it has been collecting.

Does this mean ( Read more... )

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I play bass guitar for a band that plays out with some regularity. My wife is having our first child this summer, probably sometime in June. Though not mutually exclusive, these two interests have the potential to conflict.

If you play bass, are not terrible (at bass, at driving ( Read more... )

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Last night the display adapter on my four-year-old 24″ iMac started going nuts, so I shut it down hoping a cool-off would make all my problems go away.

This morning it was still doing the bananashits. It’s probably just trying to manifest all of my suppressed emotions about the ( Read more... )

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This started out as a comment on Joel’s quite respectful comic about the death of Christopher Hitchens. In case you weren’t aware, Christopher Hitchens has been a pseudo-idol of mine for the entirety of the Current Farris Era (a little over a decade, I would guess). I was in a ( Read more... )

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The quest for wisdom & stoic joy can be detrimental to the quest for a career in comedy. The best comedy usually springs forth from discomfort or misery, and the more centered and peaceful one becomes, the less likely one is to even be irritated by the little things that serve ( Read more... )

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I find myself so completely in the middle of most political issues that I cannot even relate to most of my online friends and family. The hate, thinly veiled in cynical humor, thrown from afar (or, worse, from around the corner) at the Occupiers by my so-called conservative ( Read more... )

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OK, that didn’t work out 100%, but it’s a start.

Why was my title all wonky? Why did I have to copy only the HTML text within the < body > tags? It seems to me that, unless there is a plugin for Scrivener that will take what I give it in Markdown, convert it to WordPress- ( Read more... )

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This Is The Title Of My Blog Post

I’m going to post an entry on my blog. The temporal language might be confusing, since your reading this would seem to imply or require that this has already occurred. Don’t lose any sleep over it, since it doesn’t really matter.

Here I am again ( Read more... )

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My house, like many other houses in my plastic, suburban neighborhood, sits on a subtle hill of poorly-laid topsoil in such a way that overwatering my own lawn results in moistening the pavement of the back alley and reinforcing the moisture at the base of my neighbor’s house’s ( Read more... )