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Entries from February 2008

Re-Viewing Films

February 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

No, the hyphen in the title is not in error. I find it interesting to re-view films that I’ve saw in my youth. Time (and age) have a way of changing perspective, so that the same story reads differently in a different time.
It was my friend Kelly who first made me think about this. One [...]

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Tags: Film · Re-Views

Yes, but does it come in a Tiki theme?

February 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I used to work in a cubicle that I had decorated as a tiki lounge. This would have been a nice addition, especially if it came with the soundtrack and a grass skirt:
The Hawaii Chair
Thanks to Cousin Tiana for the heads-up!

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Tags: Weird shit

Stuff I did on my winter vacation

February 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Since most of my working life is spent with my nose in a computer, I wasn’t in much of a blogging mood this vacation (besides, the computer was usually occupied by you-know-who). I took lots of photos, though, and will try to post a few in the coming days. But here’s the cheat sheet for [...]

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Tags: Geek stuff · My Company · North Carolina · Working World

Stormy Monday

February 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

After a brief but dramatic squall around 11pm last night, we were awakened in the early hours by thunder, lightning, pouring rain and pounding surf. The waves have been quite dramatic, sometimes 5 or 6 deep…and our noble earth-mover continued pushing sand around even as waves crashed around the bulldozer.

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Tags: North Carolina

Off-season

February 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We arrived at the Atlantis for our off-season beach vacation late yesterday afternoon. One of the risks of beaching it off-season is that your view might look like this:
Most of the time, that large tube snaking off to the left is pouring out a dark sandy slurry…I guess either the beach didn’t have enough sand, [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized

The Sounds of Irrelevance

February 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Watching the Grammies, here. First time I’ve done that since Simon & Garfunkel won for “Mrs. Robinson.”
I can’t believe this fandango even exists after the whole Milli Vanilli embarrassment.

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Tags: Communications

There goes the (old) neighborhood

February 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Don’t ask me what convoluted surf path I followed to stumble across this…but the Mohonk Mountain House, outside of my old stomping ground of New Paltz, NY, is #3 on a list of “World’s Best Party Spots” on a blog by the name of GlamChic, which is the kind of site that gets all fluttery [...]

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Tags: Communications

TIGER

February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

If you thought of young men being mauled by a giant carnivore, maybe it’s time to rethink your ad campaign.

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Tags: Communications