July 31, 2007

In case I’ve never mentioned it, I’ve been a big Wallace & Gromit fan for years. It just cracks me up, and now my kids love it, too.
This year, a series of short episodes (about 5 minutes each) featuring W&G character Shaun the sheep was created. They’ve been airing on The Disney Channel [...]

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July 30, 2007

In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in 2005, there were floods of people coming to Little Rock from down south. People were looking for a place to stay. Local hotels were full. People were opening up their homes to strangers. We considered doing the same. We’d just moved back from [...]

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July 27, 2007

I received a new “Harding Alumni Digest” email a few minutes ago. There’s a section where they are relaying information about various building projects on campus. In discussing some land along Race Street that is being cleared by the university, I found the following statement:
Buildings that have been removed recently include the bus [...]

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I was sad to read of the unexpected passing of Wake Forest basketball coach Skip Prosser yesterday. He was a good coach and will certainly be missed in the ACC and in college basketball. He and his team have had a couple of rough years the past two seasons, but things were looking [...]

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July 25, 2007

It’s been a long week already. I was trying to get some test product out to a customer by Monday, and thought I was in good shape Friday. Just to make sure, I ended up working from home for about 4 hours on Sunday evening. I came in at 8:30am on Monday, [...]

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July 18, 2007

A friend sent me this video, so I watched it…

…and I couldn’t help but wonder: in his attempt to woo a “fun lovin’ type gal”, which of the following was likely the most damaging?

the uncontrollable rage 

“rummaging through the dumpster for a playboy” 

employment at a comic book store 

the Kramer-esque fall at the end 

other?

Any thoughts?

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July 12, 2007

First, an off-topic question – why in the world is television programming now overrun with talent contests, mostly involving people with little to zero talent? Can someone please make it stop?
Thank God for USA network. Monk starts a new season tomorrow night. And I’ve enjoyed the first two episodes of their new [...]

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I’ve got a few posts I’m wanting to write, but want to think through them more since they’re of a more serious nature than new music. Anyway, until then…
One of my favorite days of every month now is the day my eMusic downloads refresh. I woke up this morning with 75 new downloads [...]

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July 8, 2007

Regardless of who won today’s men’s singles final at Wimbledon, history would be made.
For #2 seed Raphael Nadal, he was looking to become the first man in 27 years to win both the French and Wimbledon in the same year. The last time was in 1980 when Bjorn Borg did it.
For #1 Roger Federer, [...]

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July 2, 2007

In honor of finishing my second year at my current job tomorrow (I started 7/5/05), I’ll be taking off the remainder of the week after I leave work tomorrow. Well, it’s not really the reason, it just happened to fall that way. I’m just taking off a couple of extra days after the [...]

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