Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
It's taken all my life, but I've finally accepted that dieting is not enough for me to lose weight. I may lose a bit here and there, but it comes back and usually with more weight. No, nothing short of veganism -- I would love to go back to vegan, ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
I've been neglecting the blog lately. Posting isn't hard, but getting together coherent ideas that are at least interesting to me -- if not interesting to you folks -- is hard. Everyday, as boredom sets in at work, I come up with all sorts of ideas and projects. I generally ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
A year or two ago I learned of Getting Things Done by David Allen. It's a great book that lays out a step by step path to managing large amounts of tasks and using your time more productively. Podcast personality Merlin Mann talks at length about it at 43folders.com. It's ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
My van's engine has been clicking which tells me that it's low on oil. I'm pretty sure it has a slow oil leak, but I haven't investigated it. Anyway, on the way home I stopped at Walmart for some motor oil and snacks. I drove home and opened up the ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
My father is retired and has found that one of the many things he has the time to do now is pursue a television career. He has helped my uncle with many commercials and attended various shoots before, but this is the first thing that I've ever actually got to ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Wil Wheaton has the right idea when it comes to blogs. He updates often and about many different topics. He has posts that are personal, posts that are basically advertisements for things that he thinks are cool, and posts that are pretty geeky or only of interest to a small ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Yesterday afternoon when we came home from comic shopping, we found that someone had parked in the space in front of our apartment. Since the apartments are one story and there is only a porch between the parking spot and my front door, it feels pretty invasive to have a ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Everyone knows I've always been into comics. My love affair started when I was a child, but it wasn't until I discovered Usagi Yojimbo and TMNT in fifth grade that I started spending my own money on new comic issues. Like many children, my allowance was based on how many ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Recently I read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow and loved it.
Marcus Yallow decides to ditch school with his friends to play an alternate reality game called "Harajuku Fun Madness". After dodging RFID security, gait recognition systems, and school hall monitors they close in on the ARG's latest clue. That very ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I am so frustrated. I can't seem to get anything done these days. While its unreasonable to expect to get much of anything done on a workday afternoon, it would still be nice to accomplish something.
On any given workday morning I get up at 6:30 and get to work by ...
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