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Election Reactions
Brothers and Sisters, today's reading comes from the book of "Charlton Heston", chapter "Planet of the Apes", and it says:
"You maniacs! You blew it up! Aw, damn you! Damn you all to hell!"
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What price beauty?
TV Guide's listing for the April 1 episode of "Grimm" says,
"A deadly beauty regiment takes the life of a young woman."
I think if it takes a whole regiment to make you beautiful, it may be time to give up on your hopes of a modeling career...
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Team Player
How to be a "Team Player ( Read more... ) -
Unexpected catalog
I got a catalog in my mailbox today from a company I've never heard of before. That in itself isn't all that surprising; once you get on one company's mailing list, your address tends to get passed around to others fairly regularly. What did surprise me was the fact that it was addressed to the previous tenant ( "or current resident", admittedly ( Read more... ) -
Moment of Clara-ty
Ok, so I'll admit I'm sometimes a little slow on the uptake, but I just realized:
A school-teacher named Clara who time-travels with "Doc" --
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Some days you just can't win
Getting ready to go to work this morning, I checked the thermometer and it read 9 degrees Fahrenheit ( that's about -12 to those of you in the rest of the world ), so I decided it probably wouldn't be a good idea to take my camera along, since I would have to leave it in my unheated car all day. Naturally, my commute featured one of the most ( Read more... ) -
Monday after Cyber-Monday
Last year at UPS, the Monday after "Cyber-Monday" -- when the main wave of packages people ordered online between Thanksgiving and the following Monday hits our delivery routes -- our corporate honcho told us that the volume was unprecedented, more packages than had ever come through our building in a single day: 95,000 pieces ( Read more... ) -
Tired Eyes
Driving along the freeway, very late at night, far enough from any city that the only other light comes from the headlights of the occasional oncoming motorist ( Read more... ) -
SOPA/PIPA/ACTA
The best argument I've seen so far about the various forms of legislation that claim to be about preventing "piracy" on the internet:
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Signal Boost: The Door Into Starlight
Diane Duane, who wrote the novels from which I take my username ( The Door Into Fire, The Door Into Shadow, and The Door into Sunset ), has long been promising that EVENTUALLY she'll get around to finishing the fourth and final one in the series, The Door into Starlight. Today she has posted an entry talking about the long wait, and requesting ( Read more... )
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