discardia

Busy busy in the Clan of Hughes.
Wife preggers, growing daily. Family stuff for the horridays (say it slow). And my knee is the size of grapefruit. My insurance and I just paid for a couple people to rip my knee open, screw some hardware in and attach a dead person’s ligament where […]

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Here is a great perspective piece about the current attempts of the RIAA to legislate media.
A great quote:

The collective amnesia the entertainment industry has about its past and recent attempts to limit consumers’ rights and technological innovation is nothing short of startling.
Awesome.

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Interviewing people is one of the most uncomfortable social interactions that I can think of, short of a funeral or a bad date. (I guess interviews and bad dates are the exact same thing, actually. “First dates are interviews, Gwen.” - Van Wilder)
The interviewee is nervous and constantly double guessing answers and the questions […]

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Stream of consciousness
Humanity is random in nature. Every event, every cause, every effect, is a series of random interactions of the human beings that happen to be in the situation shaping them and in turn being shaping the situation by their presence.
Good luck wrapping your head around that.
By nature, human beings are […]

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Ever have one of those days where you just feel like a retard? Like a part of your mind is just not working the way it should?
I hate those days. Doesn’t matter how much you focus on an issue, you just won’t get it. And to really shine you on, deep down […]

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My wife and I both enjoyed a wonderful cold this weekend (still have mine), and as we were encouraging fat cells to grow on the couch Saturday night with our heads draining and throats coughing, the new Bond commercial happened to grace the screen.
“Another James Bond?!? You’ve got to be kidding me!” My wife […]

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I walked into the local Target (pronounced Tar-jay) to do my part for the retail circle of life and buy some groceries, and whilst stumbling about the toy section, looking at the latest nerf weaponry, a huge kiosk of white and blue caught my eye.
A Wii? My local Target has a Wii? No […]

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