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Just regular kinds of stuff that happened (that doesn’t fit in other categories).

What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

Posted on May 20, 2005 | Leave a comment

Ask Google, “What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?” The answer actually comes via the calculator so you can probably take a guess at the answer. If you don’t understand the question, you won’t get the answer.

Via Pinkfin.

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Gary’s Guide to On-Line Dating

Posted on May 15, 2005 | 2 comments

When placing a personal ad on-line be sure to list the following things to get the most responses.

  • Make sure your photos include pictures of all your pets (either alone or with you).
  • Speling and grammer aint very imprtant.
  • If you could “meet anyone / have lunch with” be sure to list Brad Pitt and/or Tom Cruise (because we can all meet those expectations).
  • Be sure to not use any punctuation.
  • Be sure to have at least one picture with your ex cut/photoshopped out of the image.
  • Use ALL CAPS when possible.
  • Be sure to mention your ex at least four or five times.
  • Don’t smile in any of your photos.
  • List as much of your baggage as possible in your profile (oh, wait! That’s what blogs are for!).

The scary thing is, most of the above comments are from the profiles that I liked…

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Blah…

Posted on May 14, 2005 | Leave a comment

I contributed nothing of any value at all to the world (local or global) today. What a waste of 24 hours…

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Full disclosure

Posted on May 13, 2005 | Leave a comment

Just so you know. Some (but not all) of my links that lead to items, products or services give me a (very) tiny commission if you buy/subscribe/etc., that’s if you purchase (or add to your cart) while you are there. If it’s something I’m writing about and give it a thumbs up, it’s really something I’m genuinely recommending (and it doesn’t cost more for you to buy it from Amazon or iTunes or whoever from my link then to go there directly so why not get it this way?!?).

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The biggest problem with incompetent people…

Posted on May 12, 2005 | 1 comment

“The biggest problem with incompetent people is that they don’t know that they are incompetent.” I don’t know if Sarah got that from somewhere, made it up or she paraphrased it, but it’s so true. I had to deal with several customer service people today (me being the customer) and I just wasn’t getting anywhere.

I just wanted them to listen. And if you can’t listen, at least wait until I finish the question before you jump in with an answer that clearly indicates that you didn’t listen.

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Beautiful Day

Posted on May 6, 2005 | Leave a comment

Hinesmay062005BSo it was a great day today, the forecast kept getting better and better this week and so did the day! I was down at one of the parks on Hines Drive today and the colors were excellent! This photo does not do it justice…

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Time Travel Convention

Posted on May 3, 2005 | 2 comments

If you’re a time traveler it doesn’t really matter when the convention is. So an MIT student is scheduling a convention on May 7th, 2005. Listen to a KOMO News story and an NPR story on this topic. So it looks like he’s a quirky college kid, but if it works, he’s famous! Plus he might inspire someone to grow up and build a time machine. Although he sorta got the idea from a comic strip on-line, if it works who should really get the credit?!?

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A slanted PC Magazine feature

Posted on May 2, 2005 | Leave a comment

So this Backspace article in the May 24, 2005 issue of PC Magazine they decide to look at some blogs to see “is blogging the new journalism?” and “is mainstream media truly obsolete?”

They then proceeded to to quote a dozen different blogs. Most were some really really boring entries from blogger.com and the rest were just mostly boring (I did like a few entries). And that was it! I guess that it was supposed to stand on it’s own to make it’s point. I think this is the first time that I recall Backspace not being a bunch of Leno-ish goofball typos or web/magazine layout faux-paus…

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