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Entries from July 2007

Eat Me, Deer!

July 12th, 2007 · No Comments

My wife and I went to breakfast on Sunday, to a “little” (i.e. actually massive) chain restaurant, that dresses up their store in gaudy Bourbon Street and Jazz paraphernalia strewn about in a haphazard and dangerous fashion. In fact, they try to make it appear that Mardi Gras marched into the joint and promptly […]

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Support Monkeys, vol II

July 10th, 2007 · No Comments

There are a few things that I have learned when it comes to Information Technology.

Do your homework on new tech, but don’t let it bog you down
Research the shit out of new tech if it has 80% plausibility
Plausibility implies that the tech improves the process, supports the business plan, and addresses a weakness
If the tech […]

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Live Free or Die Hard

July 5th, 2007 · No Comments

I saw the fourth John McClane firefest last Friday. And it was way better than I was expecting it to be.
To say the least. Probably the best Die Hard (besides the first). It was actually based on a Wired article from a few years back. It is a good read.
A Farewell […]

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Transformers flippin rocks

July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

No seriously. I had doubts. Michael Bay’s normal crap really is tedious junk.
But his “style” works here. I don’t know how, I don’t know what stars aligned, but it was way better than it could have been. It could have been a big steaming pile.
Don’t get me wrong, it had a […]

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Tags: Stuff · Movies

Family Dog

July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

One of the greatest cartoons from my childhood. Thanks YouTube.

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Tags: Videos

Liberalican? Republicrat? Demoblican? Conservacrat?

July 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

What is exactly is a person that doesn’t fit in any political party lines? A moderate? Maybe its just me, but I for one have not heard of a Moderate Party. Maybe I have my head under a rock. Perhaps.
I asked my wife the other night where she thought I […]

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