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I need a new name!
(For those of you less in the know. I'm in Buenos Aires right now. My official trip blog is at http://oranges4oranges.blogspot.comRead more... ) -
Prospectus
I am seeking funds to develop a social networking site based on the writings of Franz Kafka. As a user, your friends total will be perpetually zero. You may initiate a "friend" request with another user and this will start an interminable series of verification processes that you will, ultimately after many years of effort, realize is the ( Read more... ) -
It's Going to be the Best Halloween Ever
The New York Times reports that, in an effort to fight crime, a Japanese designer has a outfit that can be rapidly unfolded into a vending machine disguise. Those of you that are into things that are awesome, might want to check out the photos and story here"Pretty cool" you are probably thinking. What could make this story cooler? A gratuitous ( Read more... ) -
The Devil Rides the 44
Let me paint a scene. The bus I'm on is the number 44. The last one of the night. It's full of drunk people. It's Sunday, so it's full of the sort of people that don't have a Monday to wake up to. Don't ask what I was doing there ( Read more... ) -
How I Roll.
So it's been awhile since I've updated this thing and major life events have been cropping up right and left. Trying to place them chronologically would be time consuming and would probably screw up my flow. So I'm just going to start referring to all events in my life as if they happened "last weekend." Those of you interested in a more ( Read more... ) -
30 Seconds of Theology
I'm about to change jobs (for the better) and lately have been meditating about what exactly I'm suited for in life ( Read more... ) -
Orange Death
Here's a story for y'all. It's 100% true, and it happened just this week. On Monday, I was standing at my bus stop waiting to go home from work. It was getting towards dinner time and I was powerful hungry. Cruel fate had placed my bus stop in Bellevue ten yards from a Dairy Queen. For a hungry hypoglycemic (read: unable to eat ice cream ( Read more... ) -
Old Blind Deaf Arthritic Retarded Epileptic Dog
My sister, currently in the process of getting her teaching certification, is reading a text book on Special Learners. While reading it, she realized that our beloved 19 year old dog, Katie, fits in 11 of the 13 federally recognized categories of disability.
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Coincidence?
I have already come across two improbable references to the caning of Charles Sumner today. The first was a metaphor for the internal conflicts of an autistic child the second was as a facebook group celebrating the event.
It is not yet noon.
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I seem to have acquired a magical neck tie
I wore it for the first time today. It seems to have caused a massive upswing in the willingness of total strangers to talk to me in a friendly and comfortable manner. On buses, in restaurants and on street corners... everywhere. None of these strangers has mentioned the tie explicitly but it's really the only factor that could explain all this ( Read more... )