Congratulations to both John (who’s also about to hit the big four-oh-oh-oh) and Woodstock on completion of the (first annual?) National Blog Posting Month, also known as NaBloPoMo. Also last night Kiri and Liz finished their respective magnum opuses (opusi?) for National Novel Writing Month. Congratulations, ladies!
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(With apologies to Queen) I want to ride my icicle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my icicle I want to ride it where I like What an exciting commute home! I peeled away from work around 5pm. There was a light fluffy drizzle in the Factoria area, but nothing was
The extended holiday weekend was a good opportunity for prolonged bursts of writing. Between Wednesday afternoon and very, very, very early Friday morning, I cranked out 11k words, breaking the 50k limit. I’m going to need to wean myself away from coffee again, but slowly, as I don’t want to have one of those massive
Mr. Frog is upset withthe party-crashers Today was a private function for patrons of the Bellevue Botanical Garden. The first clue was the abundant parking and lack of throngs of people queuing up for the hot caffeine injection. The second clue was the lights being shut down… at 7p.m. On the way out, I saw
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Drown in a barrel of feral, plastic monkeys Unnecessarily provoke a “Code Elmo” alert with the Portage Security Association — they’re much like our TSA, but with better accents and 20% more common sense Contract a fatal infection from the paper cut he got while licking the envelope on a strongly-worded letter to the editor
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Andre the Giant sticker. I love Flickr, except that my general pool of photos has always been oddly ordered. After some experimentation, I’ve figured it out what’s going on. On the actual camera, they’re numbered chronologically, using a different prefix, e.g. IMG_7021.jpg. When I plug in the camera, the Windows plug-and-play photo transfer widget prompts
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Dear Dell: Suppose you’re a business traveler on a mid-afternoon flight to a two-day trade show in a large metropolis. In your haste to adhere to the new arbitrary security restriction of the month, you were all over packing the sub three-ounce shaving cream, but forgot your Dell laptop power cord. Worse, you didn’t realize
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Elmo doesn’t shave…coincidence? We pre-shipped the booth for my current trip — hopefully the last trip until Reno in January — giving me the rare opportunity to travel without having to check baggage. After a brief daydream of what I could do with the extra two hours of my life not spent in baggage claim,
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