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28 December 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Close encounters of the “Me Planet” kind

While standing in line for food at the Mavericks game tonight, I ran into the kind of person that Brian Regan describes as “Captain Me Planet.” I was the next person in line to order at the cash register when a guy, who sounded like he was from either Europe or New Zealand, came marching [...]

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18 December 2007 ~ 0 Comments

I’m getting prepared for the end of Palm OS

For about the past six months I’ve been coming to grips with the fact that Palm will be coming to an end…soon. I had hope for them, both as a company and a maker of the mobile OS, but that hope disappeared with the Foleo fiasco. Not that the product was a terrible idea, it [...]

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10 December 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death

I had to get my original Xbox 360 replaced because of this same problem. No more Halo 3 for me for a while. Thankfully I should be able to get this system repaired/replaced for free since it’s still under warranty.

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06 August 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Simplifying Communication

Everything a person wants to communicate should be able to be summarized in 144 characters or less.

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11 July 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Word snobs are out of touch with reality.

I don’t like to use big words that sound intelligent. I understand a lot of them, but they are out of place with my everyday life. Most people today don’t walk around using a graduate-level vocabulary. Just look at your most recent text message. You’re more likely to see things like “cya,” “whatsup,” and “how [...]

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07 December 2006 ~ 1 Comment

Creative Editing

My wife and I have been going to more movies this past month than usual. It seems like we’ve been showing up to the theater about thirty minutes early. It used to be that being at the theater that early meant you’d be listening to crappy music and watching the same 14 slides repeat on [...]

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31 October 2006 ~ 0 Comments

John Kerry–An Anti-American Leading America

Senator John Kerry said some of the stupidest, most insulting comments on Monday and then repeated them again today. He told a group of students in California that those who are not able to navigate through the education system “get stuck in Iraq.” Today at a press conference he said, “You know, education, if you [...]

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