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Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
On the way to work yesterday morning there was a presidential campaign sign on the side of the interstate. Just one. On the side of the interstate. In January.
My first thought was to be mad. Can they do that? Can people start stabbing presidential signs into the ground already? [...]
Posted in Nobody Asks Me First | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
When you have the right of way, use it. It’s very nice of you to stop and let someone else go first. It’s very gentlemanly and all that. However, there is a reason right-of-way rules are in place. This is to keep traffic flowing as smoothly as possible. These rules, [...]
Posted in Nobody Asks Me First | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Tired of spam, comment spam, and trackback spam? Me, too. Tired of constant attempts to hack your site and fighting ghost posts of ferret propaganda? Me, too. Looking for someone who is up to the task of protecting your digital and virtual investments? Hey, who isn’t?
I give you The Monkey [...]
Posted in Squirrel Exhibit | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Last night I was at the inaugural meeting of the Bangor Area .NET Developers (BAND). Thank you Eric.
You’re saying, “Roger, you don’t even play an instrument.” You are correct. Neither do I play an literal musical instrument, to fit with the theme, nor do I play a figurative programming instrument. I [...]
Posted in Everything's Connected Somehow, What's Up? | 7 Comments »
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Here are two terms that speakers should refrain from using:
Obviously
You know
I mean
Uh
Um
Feel free to add some more.
Posted in Nobody Asks Me First | 8 Comments »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
There’s a reason it’s called black ice.
Regular ice is a rather cloudy color, just sitting (lying?) on the road waiting to cause trouble. The cloudiness comes from air bubbles trapped in the frozen ice, like miniature cave men. If you run over the cloudy ice, it may have cracks in it [...]
Posted in General | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Today I gave a Walk-In Care nurse practitioner a pop quiz regarding why my jaw would hurt right around my lymph node. After the quiz, he suggested that I could have the symptoms of mumps. This led me to make an appointment at my PCP office.
At the office, the MA took my vital [...]
Posted in Humor | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
The link for you to try to see how many 5 year olds you could take in a fight does not work as I expected. (I could take 18.) Here’s what I think happened:
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Sorry for the inconvenience!
Posted in Get To Know Roger | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
I don’t usually cop-out on posts by merely linking someone else’s (I usually cop-out by just not posting), but here’s a wise little post as Ted reflects on his 26th birthday. I think you’ll find the wisdom in his post for today.
If not, you should smarten up already. Start acting your [...]
Posted in Everything's Connected Somehow | No Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
This week I want to clean the dishes that need to be hand washed on a nightly basis…after supper (addended to meet the spirit of the project).
I’ve wanted to try this for a while now, but something always distracts me. I usually end up doing the hand washables once a week (or so). [...]
Posted in Project of the Week | No Comments »
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Can we stop pretending there are no rules? Can we stop mistaking freedom for anarchy and everyone doing whatever is right in their own eyes?
Thank you.
Posted in Nobody Asks Me First | 6 Comments »
Friday, January 11th, 2008
As fast as warm molasses passing through the bowels of a gluten-intolerant body.
Posted in Ramblings | No Comments »
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Because I care…about the band Caedmon’s Call. They are truly great, and one of their songs will play for the last five minutes of Grey’s Anatomy tonight. Even if you don’t like Christian music, it is well worth your money to download and listen to.
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Ten Thousand Angels lyrics courtesy of the Caedmon’s Call [...]
Posted in Music | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Let’s take this game that Chris invited me to over a year ago, and Chris’ interest in Sci-Fi (since he’s the one who invited me to the game) and see what I can come up with. I’m not sure how the game was supposed to be played, but I wrote the first sentence that [...]
Posted in Everything's Connected Somehow, Stories | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Why do mature adults, who have lived in a location for longer than a week, put their trash bags outside on the night before trash pickup? Invariably there is trash strewn about their property the next morning from some birds or nocturnal mammal(s).
Still waiting for some people to get a clue…
-Later
Posted in Nobody Asks Me First | 4 Comments »
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Since I’ve written the Jeremy Camp review comparing his latest CD to my memories of Dishwalla, I’ve gotten a Dishwalla song stuck in my head. I like the soothing melody of this song, and apparently so do many of their fans. Also, the lyrics fit my beliefs. Let me show you.
Dishwalla: [...]
Posted in Music, Religion | No Comments »
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
This is a contender for my next wall clock:
CNET News article can be found here.
Posted in General | 3 Comments »
Friday, January 4th, 2008
The one that someone crashed into on December 3rd during the snowstorm?
I just got it back from the auto body shop today. This always happens when I tell people I’m not in a hurry. I didn’t take me long to get attached to the rental car, though. After all, it was the [...]
Posted in What's Up? | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Night Masks Review
Yes, R.A. Salvatore has written more than just the Drizzt books, and yes, his other books are quite exciting as well. Night Masks has always impressed me because of the spiritual journey that Cadderly makes. The story contains your expected Salvatore action sequences, amusing, though insanely tough, dwarves, and the extra-inquisitive [...]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Monday’s 12″+ of snow took some time away from the unpublished project I had planned for my New Year’s Day off. As you can see, it was quite an aggressive outline, considering I had the whole day off at home with my wife. I only got as far as the bolded work.
Clean corner [...]
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