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QotD: I'm Not Telling

2008-07-08T17:49:43Z

What question do you hate being asked? What's for dinner?! Man, I HATE that question. Here's one way we've tried to resolve it.

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Celebration weekend

2008-07-06T17:28:03Z

I love July 4! Not only is it a long weekend this year, but it's also my 40th birthday and today, the 6th, is our third wedding anniversary (and Jake's 11 month birthday!). I've been having a wonderful weekend. I miss my girlies, but I had a nice...

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It's all in the cards

2008-07-02T08:10:48Z

At a two day management off-site. My favorite parts are the personality tests. Color me yellow, mostly. Except for the jelly beans. With those, I like the black licorice ones best.

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Regeneration

2008-06-30T18:13:33Z

When I was a kid (this was conveniently during the time I lived in Hawaii), I became obsessed with starfish. What stunned me most was their ability to, rather quickly, shed and regenerate a limb. I wondered if it hurt to do this, or if it was so...

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Clarity and gratitude in the details

2008-06-29T19:18:15Z

I've been feeling a wee bit sorry for myself, for no particular reason other than a confluence of life's regular up and down stresses and a need to remind myself to focus on what I have to be grateful for. When I get like that I tend to make myse...

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Unintentionally funny headline of the day

2008-06-27T18:41:55Z

"Man dressed as penis disrupts graduation." Do you really need to know anything else about this story? The headline tells you everything you need to know. No other details are necessary. That, my friends, is the hallmark of a truly brilliant hea...

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Vox Hunt: SMS Show & Tell

2008-06-26T21:24:35Z

Show us your last text message. Sent from her dad's cell phone... Hi mom it's Mira how are you doing today we are in ohio we just ate. We were in a big storme last night it was scary because we heard hospital cars. My girls are visiting thei...

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The beauty of the forwarded, quasi-anonymous email

2008-06-26T13:22:35Z

Received a forward of a forward of a forward of a forward from a friend this morning juxtaposing the response to flooding in Iowa to the response following Hurricane Katrina. I'll copy and paste the original email text here. The subject line is "I...

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Two questions arise from looking at this picture

2008-06-25T15:55:16Z

1) Does the person driving know this fellow is back there? 2) If so, what - or who - is in the interior of the car that he's been relegated to such a precarious perch?

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Will someone in power somewhere do something...

2008-06-25T02:24:47Z

About this fucking asshole already? I understand that it's down there in the scary dark continent that we don't really care about, but it cannot be ignored anymore. Plus, Mugabe's bogus fucking soulpatch is really annoying to look at. As if it we...

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