The Dude abides

http://www.dudeism.com/

Come join the slowest-growing religion in the world – Dudeism. An ancient philosophy that preaches non-preachiness, practices as little as possible, and above all, uh…lost my train of thought there. Anyway, if you’d like to find peace on earth and goodwill, man, we’ll help you get started. Right after a little nap.

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The has-been bowl

So next Sunday the Eagles go to Arizona to play the Cardinals. It’s Donovan McNabb, who usually chokes, against Kurt Warner, who’s having this “huge comeback.”  What the hell happened to Leinart?  Whatever.

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Update & good morning 2009

It’s been noticed that I haven’t posted in a little while (hehe, yay!).

December 19th, 2008, an ice storm hit Fort Wayne. Yeah, you probably didn’t hear about it unless you live here because it wasn’t on the east coast or in a big city, but about 200,000 people were without electricity. Some for six days.

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NaNoWriMo, et al.

NaNoWriMo is the “official” abbreviation for National Novel Writing Month, which is November. Considering this is Nov. 2nd, it might be too late for some of us to get the target 50,000 words by November 30th. I think it’s a good idea, and might do it next year, though that seems to always be my thing: next year, next month, whatever.

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Low Spark

Ok, so we watched a video at a dispatcher’s workshop that featured the song Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys by Traffic, but no one knew the song except for me, and that made me sad.  This is a great song from a great album, and deserves to be explored by everyone — everyone — do it.

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pol vs. pol

Tami at work asked me the other day, “What don’t you like about McCain?”  A succinct answer eluded me.  There’s not really an easy way to summarize these campaigners; no two-word answer — well, I did attempt one, jokingly, but it was lame.

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Pakistan protests ‘coalition air attack’

Pakistan appears more and more to be harboring Osama Bin Laden.  They don’t want us looking for him in the mountains, and they won’t let us launch offensives inside their borders.  Now they’re protesting our attacking terrorists because we may have stepped over the border by who-knows-how-little:

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Heeeeyy Charlie

So one day during a walk my daughter starts telling me about this video “Charlie the Unicorn Goes to Candy Mountain,” and I didn’t believe her because it sounded so ridiculous.  Of course it does actually exist, but in all fairness to me, in her story she included part two, which is even more ridiculous than part one:

and just so we’re clear: I did not create this video

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this one is too cool

check out this post over here for cool commentary — but there’s a tiny bit of adult language (I’m not against it, just warning my daughter that if she reads it, not to tell Mom  ;)

and I’ve no idea if that picture is real, but it looks like it, and is even more funny if it is real.

and if it’s not obvious yet — I totally agree with what the author says — ok, maybe not “totally,” but I think she has some opinions I can agree with — most of, well mostly most of them — except for the ones I don’t agree with, but even then only partially disagreeing

Vitriol!

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crazy keyboard passcode entry

Verizon recommends changing the password on your MI424-WR router occasionally.  Not a bad idea, but when you enter the password on the login screen at http://192.168.1.1, the password gets more than one asterisk per character that you type.  Very confusing until I found this:

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