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Clever Blog Title: It started on a high note
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Because every blog needs one. It started on a high note. You are waiting for your morning bus with about 15 other people. Your bus stop plays host to multiple routes, so with each approaching bus, you squint at the glowing number emblazoned on its front (or taped to the windshield by the driver) to see if your chariot has come to whisk you away. Decision time. Do you:. I, myself, typically choose A. Admittedly, studies have shown that my enthusiasm for flagging down bus drivers for other riders is di...
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Clever Blog Title: Avatar Thoughts
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Because every blog needs one. All I was going to say in response to assertions that the movie was predictable and the ending could have been stronger was that I can't really think how they could have ended it any other way. Because the whole human presence on Pandora was based on mining and company shares means that, if that presence is no longer profitable, the company'll just pull the plug. All you're going to get are some meaningful looks from the soft corporate representative (which we did). Perhaps&...
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Clever Blog Title: Mr. Varmint Goes to Washington
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Because every blog needs one. Mr Varmint Goes to Washington. This just doesn't seem right. The White House is, supposedly, one of the most secure (albeit, public) pieces of property in the world. The Residence is watched around the clock by hundreds of our country's finest Secret Service agents (officers? They have snipers and anti-aircraft emplacements. There's a big fuck-off fence! So how come they can't keep out a couple of freaking raccoons? I mean, I remember reading ( Where the Red Fern Grows.
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Clever Blog Title: February 2009
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Because every blog needs one. It started on a high note. You are waiting for your morning bus with about 15 other people. Your bus stop plays host to multiple routes, so with each approaching bus, you squint at the glowing number emblazoned on its front (or taped to the windshield by the driver) to see if your chariot has come to whisk you away. Decision time. Do you:. I, myself, typically choose A. Admittedly, studies have shown that my enthusiasm for flagging down bus drivers for other riders is di...
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Clever Blog Title: Netflix Review: Forbidden Kingdom
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Because every blog needs one. Netflix Review: Forbidden Kingdom. We don't make it out to a lot of movies in the theaters these days, but with 400 movies in my Netflix queue, I'll get to the blockbusters. eventually. So, here's the first of my "four-month-late" movie reviews. Last night. I really. Wanted that movie to be good… But… it wasn’t. Jackie Chan and Jet Li were good with the roles they were given. Lei Yifei and Li Bingbing (! The parts of the movie that turned my stomach were:. The big example of...
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Clever Blog Title: Welcome to Australia
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Because every blog needs one. I still call Australia, I still call Australia, I still call Austraaaaaaalia hooooooooooome. 8221; Palm trees, giant pane-glass windows, round rubbish bins… Everything. Seems uniquely Australian in some form or other. I’m tempted to get out my camera. 8220;Are you Eric Pierce? A tall, smiling man holding a placard with my name on it and the name of my tour company steps in to the imaginary frame of my picture of a palm tree bending away from the wall towards the street.
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Clever Blog Title: May I Ask Who's Calling?
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Because every blog needs one. May I Ask Who's Calling? When is the last time you had to call tech support? Either your iPod has kicked the bucket, your Guitar Hero (Rock Band, more likely) guitar is no longer working or the public Beta test that is Vista has expired again. Whatever the issue, if you have contacted technical support in recent history, you likely have been listed in one of the following categories:. These individuals are competent but are unaware that they are competent. Typically, the...
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Clever Blog Title: March 2009
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Because every blog needs one. I still call Australia, I still call Australia, I still call Austraaaaaaalia hooooooooooome. 8221; Palm trees, giant pane-glass windows, round rubbish bins… Everything. Seems uniquely Australian in some form or other. I’m tempted to get out my camera. 8220;Are you Eric Pierce? A tall, smiling man holding a placard with my name on it and the name of my tour company steps in to the imaginary frame of my picture of a palm tree bending away from the wall towards the street.
