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Vote for me

Oct

30

2008

Nearly completely randomly, I’m a finalist in a content being held by Plantronics to redefine “teleworkers” (or someone who routinely works outside the office). My suggestion, technomad, is one of ten finalists. Can you please vote for technomad at: www.plantronics.com/telewho You can vote once per day (per browser), and I’d be eternally grateful if you ...

knight rider is the worst show ever 1

Oct

22

2008

i loved the old show. hasselhoff was such a giant puff, but the show was cool in a CHiPs-cool kinda way. this new thing is a piece of crap. writing is terrible. acting is worse. the premise still rocks, but it isn’t even like they’ve introduced cool technology or any cool twists even KITT isn’t ...

it's up to you now. 1

Oct

22

2008

i voted today. i’m going to be out of the country on election day, so i took some time to head to my local elections bureau to cast an absentee ballot. it took about an hour to drive there (while we’re in a small county, the east-west routes aren’t well-served by our nation’s highways). when ...

one coin, one play. or "warrior, you're pushing me" 7

Oct

20

2008

the conman maintains that this happened at brunswick, and there’s a chance that’s true, though i’m pretty sure this event happened at roller kingdom. regardless, i have a new toy. it’s a full size arcade cabinet running MAME, the arcade simulator. that means that just about every arcade game we played as kids can be ...

it's a shame that there won't be a World Series this year 2

Oct

20

2008

since 1903 (except for the boycott in 1904 and the strike by those greedy bastards in 1994), it’s been played faithfully every year. Despite World War I, the global influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the Great Depression of the 1930s, America’s involvement in World War II, and even an earthquake in the host city of the ...

A New Hope

Oct

12

2008

Sarah Palin the post turtle

Oct

12

2008

A 75-year-old Texas rancher recently explained this term to a country doctor. The conversation turned to the US election, and Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential candidacy, and the old rancher observed: “Well, ya know, Palin is a post-turtle.” The bemused doctor asked what a post-turtle was, and the old man replied: “When you’re driving down a country ...

i think we're going to be ok 2

Oct

11

2008

get out alive

Oct

11

2008

with all the flying i’ve been doing lately, this is actually something i think about. Share this:

if i ever meet tim robbins 4

Sep

1

2008

i will congratulate him on his role in Top Gun. i like finding actors before they were successful and congratulating them on very minor roles. like kevin connely in Rocky V got any good ones? Share this: