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A finger for solidarity

November 7th 2008

If you’d like to know what this is about, you can find out all about it here, and maybe join in:

I don’t really have anything else to say, that hasn’t been said better by others, except people suck.

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A feminist convergence

April 28th 2008

It seems The Fates have decided that today is the day I think about feminism. It started with reading this post of Spider’s, which for me read as a laundry list of things I do every day … part and parcel of life in a two income household and spending a good 35% of my [...]

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Leave the Olympics alone

April 2nd 2008

Mostly, I like to keep my mouth shut when it comes to potentially inflammatory subjects, but I honestly cannot stay quiet about this one any longer.
In the news today, there are reports that fourteen members of the house sent a letter to The Boob In-Charge urging him not to attend the opening ceremonies of this [...]

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Vow

March 1st 2008

I am not a violent man, but today I am buying a gun. If I see that dog again, the one that killed my goat, I’m going to bury him in a hole right next to the one I put her in … or maybe I’ll just leave him for the crows.

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Oh, if only it were Sir Philip Pullman

December 3rd 2007

At Thanksgiving I was surprised by a family member who said that they weren’t going to see The Golden Compass because Philip Pullman was an atheist. I was surprised by this on two fronts: I hadn’t realized they were so religious, and I had no idea The Golden Compass was remotely offensive.
Today, in discussing with [...]

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You all should know better

June 30th 2007

Ok, I’m going to keep this short because it’s dinner time.
Yes, there are people reporting activation problems with their iPhones. Most of them are porting numbers from other carriers. This requires the other carriers’ cooperation. Were there other scattered issues? Certainly. Was the release botched by Apple and AT&T? Hardly. Most people have reported activations [...]

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Spin me, daddy! Spin me!

June 29th 2007

This article over on Yahoo! cracks me up. It seems to me Mr. Auchard went to the San Francisco Apple Store with an agenda. His agenda seems to have been to show the world that no one is interested in iPhone.
He quotes five people, who he introduces as a “… handful of opportunists who have [...]

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I’m in ur WoW uzin’ ur gramarz

June 15th 2007

So, I’m running around killing Defias Bandits, like you do, and trying to kill The Collector when I realize that I just can’t take on three mobs at once; Rogues are bad ass, but not so much at level 11. I put out a quick message to the General channel, asking for help, and within [...]

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No court, no judge, for motor cars

May 25th 2007

I spent an hour this morning in the Stokes County Government Building in Danbury, NC (who the hell was this Dan guy, by the way; they named everything around here after him). Why was I there? Well, in the five years I have been making the one-hundred mile round trip commute from my home in [...]

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It’s one, two, three, what are we fightin’ for…

March 28th 2007

Let’s just get it out of the way so we can move on to other things. You know I’m going to mention it at least once, so I may as well do it now and then we’re done. I mean, really; why kid our selves?

Daewon
Pelinor
Deynarra

There, that’s done. See, it didn’t hurt one bit.
I’ve been troubled [...]

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