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Happy Birthday Nugget
Happy Birthday Nugget, wherever you are. It's been 11 years now since I had to say goodbye, and I've missed you and Velvet every day. You were both such wonderful pups and I had no idea how lucky I was to have you both as long as I did.
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So this is where we ended up... in the Age of Mean.
When I first got online over a quarter of a century ago, BBS's were in their infancy, and the rules for online discourse were only starting to get figured out. There were of course disagrements and "flamewars" (although the word didn't exist yet) but in general, if you were actually online talking to someone at all, you had to be reasonably ( Read more... ) -
LOL for today
Got a LOL from another Rhymes with Orange strip in the funnies in today's newspaper:
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Thoughts of Graduation and Life's Passages
Here we are again, at Commencement time, as my thoughts hearken back to those that walk down The Hill in Lawrence this coming Sunday, as thousands of fellow Jayhawks make the painful transition from student to unemployed, as I did eighteen years ago ( Read more... ) -
Awwww yeah....
There's something to be said for working at a big company-- after years of working at startups, for the first time in years I actually have a faster net connection at work than I do at home. I did a double-take yesterday when I pulled down the Ubuntu install CD at work in less than a minute. So I ran speedtest.net, and while I have grayed out the ( Read more... ) -
Cinco de Mayo (or Cindo de Drinko?)
Hey, anyone up for getting margaritas tonight at Cinco de Mayo? I have a reservation at a tequilaeria in the South Bay, and room for a few more seats on the reservation. ;) -
Superheroes of Cincinatti on CNN
I just had to LOL seeing this on CNN this afternoon...
Superheroes' take to streets
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Being a flaming home-owner is fricken' expensive
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Old man rant -- Why nobody can remember anything any more
Many aeons ago, a third of a century ago in fact, when I was young, I knew my home phone number. This was in a time where there was one phone in the entire house, and maybe one in the master bedroom. (and you could have any color phone you wanted, so long as it was black or white). I can still remember it now, 888-2369, even though we moved out ( Read more... )
