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Five Kilos of Coke

2008-12-04T21:15:42Z

I recently transported five kilos of Coke across international boundaries. I was forced into this trade by the Coca-Cola company, who, in the mid-80's, pulled a fast one on the American consumer - or, more accurately, a slow one. They introduced...

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The Palin Office Conundrum

2008-10-02T06:08:35Z

I have a problem with all this making fun of Sarah Palin. It's not that it's undeserved. It's not even that her "positions" are defensible. It's that it makes me extremely uncomfortable to watch her. It is the same problem that I have with wat...

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The Dominos Fall

2008-09-21T02:37:41Z

Okay. So it's 6 PM on Saturday. I'm watching College Football like every patriotic American with my family and a buddy. We're hungry. So we decide upon that most mainstream, American, and patriotic of meals: we order pizza for delivery to our...

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The Modern Siege

2008-07-31T21:25:12Z

When we think of the word siege in military terms, images of fortified walled cities in antiquity surrounded by huge armies for months come to mind. The reasons for besieging a city are many and varied in the annals of human history. Most of the...

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Dragontail Peak

2008-07-14T19:57:38Z

On Saturday, I summited Dragontail Peak (8840'+). Obviously, it's been an incredibly slow year in terms of mountaineering, but I finally have something to write about other than rants against the telcos. After being an instructor for a basic cl...

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iPhone or pPhone? (perfect Phone)

2008-07-01T21:05:34Z

Years and years ago, I implored the browser development community to come up with a web browser that gave me, the user, control over cookies, pop-ups, and other hijackings like window resizing or movement. Mozilla was the first browser that answe...

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Motorola Q: Equine Excrement

2008-03-12T17:11:12Z

A little over a year ago, I underwent an utterly hellish process to stay loyal to Sprint and get a Motorola Q. One day, I may document this on the blog, but not today. I have all the e-mails saved, and the memory of the multitudes of phone calls...

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Sport and State Follow-up

2008-02-15T20:59:33Z

So Specter isn't letting this go... "[Goodell] issued the discipline as quickly as he could to send a strong message to teams that this wouldn't be tolerated and there'd be a severe penalty if you violated the rules," Aiello said. "The discipli...

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Separation of Sport and State

2008-02-13T23:15:22Z

I am dumbfounded by the sports news lately. I expect to see names like Roger Clemens, Tom Brady... even Michael Jordan (retired), Walter Payton (long retired and passed away), in the sports news. So why am I seeing names of US Senators and memb...

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Easy Button Failure

2007-12-10T19:08:34Z

There are some people that not even The Easy Button can help... I watched a lady this morning sit in her car, holding up a line of about 10 cars, because she could not figure out how to press a button. I am not kidding. She was trying to enter ...

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