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Monthly Archives: October 2004
Hail Satan
I’ve been neglecting my friends and my blog-readers. And for that I apologize. Stupid work. So here’s not one, not two, but three week’s worth of selected (by me) news snippets courtesy of Harper’s. The Labor Department reported that the … Continue reading
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Acquaintancester
Have I mentioned this already? A little while ago I deleted my friendster account. I never liked friendster, really. Sometimes I hated it. It was novel at first. One thing that especially irked me was the people who have over … Continue reading
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Women and seamen don’t mix
We played D&D last night and it was fun. The gang is on board a galleon. They’ve had to be hired on as workers, which required a lot of shenanigans, since none of them (except the NPCs) have any sailor … Continue reading
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Activate Cloaking Device. And by that I mean ‘put on the cloak’
The nice, velvety cloak I’ve had for years in my tickle trunk belongs to Jon Metzger. I met Jon when I met Nathan and Devin, years ago. When I moved into Vancouver, I didn’t know anybody, so I went to … Continue reading
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It’s a snap!
On Tuesday Marlo and I (well, mostly Marlo as I was drawing) made more ginger snaps. Things went slightly awry when Marlo put in 3 times as much molasses. Oh, Marlo. We tried to compensate with my elite math skills, … Continue reading
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Whoopsie.
I didn’t pay my phone bills (I was going to, I swear, I just wasn’t ready) so Sprint disconnected my phone. Naturally I got the notice in the mail too late to do anything about it. But I paid with … Continue reading
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Back to the old drawing board
I was planning on seeing The Eagles of Death Metal, Helmet, and Metric this month. I also toyed with seeing Goatsblood and some other band I forgot the name of. I didn’t see any of them. I haven’t seen any … Continue reading
For Pete’s Sake
I really should be drawing instead of writing this – but yeah. There’s this guy at work, whose name is Pete, who seems like an okay guy. Most of the people who work there are…I’m sure they’re nice people, but … Continue reading
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1.24498
That’s the exchange rate right now. I remember when it used to be about 1.6 In all my time flying in airplanes, I don’t remember ever seeing a commercial pilot who wasn’t white, and over 40. I wonder if they … Continue reading
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This is for my benefit, not yours
So everyone knows that Mr. Wendy, the “unofficial” spokesperson for Wendy’s, gets paid by Wendy’s, so he is in fact an official spokesperson. Right? Okay good. Let me recap my weekend for myself: Friday night: I don’t know what happened … Continue reading
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