discardia

Let me tell you a story…
A few months back, the first Blackberry Pearls started filtering into our company’s ranks. First these little devices, much like the coveted devices before them, spread among the executives, then to the managers, then down to the snooty gods in human form (otherwise known as project managers), and then […]

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Due to yesterday’s pictures of hail, I must have made some eyebrows go up, because when I got to work this morning, I had a handful of emails asking if the photos could be reproduced in weather mags and communities online. (This isn’t the first time. I took some pics in Kauai that […]

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Ahhhhh, Denver in the summer. Sun, sun, sun and tons of HAIL!
This downpour took all of five minutes. Filled the gutters, covered buildings, and made blood run cold.

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I traded up my piece of shit Nokia E62 (a blackberry clone) for a Pearl this week, and my word, it is worth it.
People ask me why Blackberry over many of the more robust offerings out there… like smartphones, Windows mobile, etc.
And the honest answer is: simplicity. Blackberry just makes it easy. […]

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Oh sing me the blues, the motherhood blues, my beautiful wife laments.
“Sleep. That is all I want. Just some sleep. I am so tired, I could just cry.” she says.
I groggily look up from my post-nocturnal slumber session, eyes still blurry with the remnants of dreams, and I try to […]

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Upon the ledge or under the hedge
neither sighted nor unseen
sits the fiendish faerie king
smile devilish, fingers long
he will sing you a sweet song
keep you silent, keep you still
he will pull you underhill
beware the circles
beware the frost
beware the orange moon
and the children lost
they cry, they wail
for they pay the highest cost
his eyes peer through the veil
through […]

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I was lying in the dark with my wife last night.
No, weren’t doing anything, you pervert. Just talking.
We were discussing the final hosting gig of Bob Barker on The Price is Right. (Which was very entertaining, for a Price is Right. Adam Sandler stopped by and read an Ode to […]

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From here:
In case you’re keeping track, nearly 40 million Microsoft Vista licenses have been sold in its first 100 days. According to Billy G, 78% of all sales made since the January 30th launch had been for the software’s premium versions. Not bad, in fact, pretty damn impressive leaving little doubt that this is Microsoft’s […]

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Geico Cavemen commercials picked up by ABC, preview.

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