Nothing beats the love of great art out of you than going into the art/wall-decor business. It’s literally been years since I’ve been able to really appreciate museum art. Then this week I came across an article in one of my favorite magazines (The New Yorker) about one of my favorite painters (Joseph Turner), written by one of [...]
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Wow, it looks like it’s for real. Yesterday the Canadian dollar reached parity with the U.S. dollar, and today it stuck. No dead cat bounce here. The last time the dollars were at par, I was in diapers and the oil sands of Alberta were a distant gleam in the eyes of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. As a friend of mine [...]
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updated September 25, 2007 updated again, October 23, 2007 The ostensible goal of this post is to document in complete detail the origin of the word “completist” (officially only a noun, but sometimes accepted as an adjective) and some of the variations (eg, “completionist” which is not officially an English word and is often mistakenly used [...]
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Tartarrrrr. Splice the mainbrace, me hearties! Today be TLAPD (for those of ye not connected to the acronym-loving geek culture, that refers to International Talk Like A Pirate Day). Why September 19? According to pirate lore, ’twas on that day that the ex-wife of Cap’n Slappy (one of the originators) was born, and this made it easy [...]
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Привычка свыше нам дана, замена счастию она. Heaven sends us habit to take the place of happiness. from Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin, Book 2, Stanza 31 Taking that quote out of its narrative context (preserved for obsessive-compulsive posterity, below) and giving it a generalized interpretation: We start out young and foolish, ambitious with pie-in-the-sky dreams. [...]
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” Don’t tase me bro.” – Andrew Meyer Postscript: Amazingly enough… Domain: DONTTASEMEBRO.COM Created on 09-18-2007 Expires on 09-18-2008 Administrative Contact: ZACH FELDBERG Phone: ***-***-**** E-mail: *******@nameprivacy.com Name Servers: DNS1.NAMESECURE.COM 64.62.166.88 DNS2.NAMESECURE.COM 64.62.166.76 (currently forwards to http://www.ufl.edu ) (and yes, there are already t-shirts available thru cafepress, etc.)
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(for those unfamiliar with the series, see my previous post on Mr. Deity) Here’s an update from the good folks at Mr. Deity: Meanwhile, I came across a similarly-themed online video series called “God, Inc.“ produced by Francis Stokes. God Inc. is modeled straight after “The Office,” with its characteristically dark and deadpan humor and the drab contemporary office [...]
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R2R.exe (useless Lenovo “rescue & recovery” app sucks life out of my laptop’s performance… hard drive grinds away and everything goes slowwwwly… DIE r2r) ccSvcHst.exe (Symantec Norton AntiVirus CPU sucking app) LUCOMS~1.exe (yet another Symantec Norton AntiVirus CPU sucking app) LuCallbackProxy.exe (could it be? yes, another Symantec Norton AntiVirus CPU sucking app that does more [...]
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