Flyover Country

Credit for this goes to vinny9 on sillytech.com:

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I’m sitting in a coffee shop a block away from my apartment finishing up some work before heading off to a party celebrating the 25th birthday of one of my designers when, without warning, a motorized wheelchair goes scooting past. Clinging to the back of the wheelchair is a midget. No one even bothers to [...]

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On rare occasions, I will read something that is genuinely amusing on Slashdot. I just had one with a Yakov Smirnoff-esque joke, of sorts.
yobjob says: “IN CAPITALIST AMERICA, WORK FINISHES YOU!” in response to a fairly involved thread about the IT industry and bringing your work home with you.
Sigh. I clearly [...]

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And lest I forget, my abbreviated 2005 favorites:
Album: Takk, by Sigur Ros, followed very, very closely by Plans for Death Cab for Cutie
Asian Person: Helen
Asian Person that I am Not Coerced into Listing: Helen, still
Beach: Waikiki in Honolulu
Movie: Batman Begins (but you have to keep [...]

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Yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted; I’ve been busy, dead-tired, and generally unwilling to expend the energy to reach out and touch all four of my loyal readers on this blog-thing. Work’s been kicking my ass of late. We’re winding down our current project milestone, which means that my ‘real’ work for [...]

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I had dinner with Helen, her friend Kat, and Kat’s boyfriend, Kirk, last night at Rover’s. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, let me tell you three things:
1. Bring your entire last paycheck to pay for it.
2. Bring an appetite.
3. Bring a stretcher, you’ll need it [...]

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Music Filter: nothing says “high speed processing” like the Black Eyed Peas!

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NewDonkey, the Sharp Edge of the Vital Center, had this to say about his Holiday Season: “[My car] was loudly sounding an apocalyptic blooga-blooga-blooga by the time I reached Arlington.” Never once have I though to use the words “apocalyptic” and “blooga-blooga-blooga” together in the same sentence. Never again, shall I make that mistake.
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The crowd is always right during a trend but is always wrong at a major turning point.
Good food for thought.

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