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Month: January 2014

  • quotation

    War is never economically beneficial except for those in postion to profit from war expenditures. – Ron Paul Whoa. It’s so unlike any other profit-driven racket! That Ron Paul is a freakin genius! Read.

  • security

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    I had a really cool dream to tell you about. It was so cool that I laid awake for a while thinking about how I was going to describe it, and after I’d come up with a catchy phrase or two I drifted back to sleep, thinking I’d be able to get it all down… Read.

  • earworm

    The song stuck in my head this morning is the Bobby Goldsboro version of “Watching Scotty Grow.” I loved this song when I was a kid and would crank up the volume whenever I was lucky enough to catch it on the radio. They just didn’t play it often enough for me back then. As… Read.

  • eructation

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    The gal sitting behind me in orientation this morning let out a long, low, steady belch that lasted for several seconds. It was the kind of burp that my father used to release when he was trying to get a reaction out of me, so when she was done I turned to her and, as… Read.

  • rosemary time

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    Anybody know what the trick to keeping a rosemary plant alive is? If you do, you’d better tell us because we’ve killed every single rosemary plant we’ve ever brought into this house and it’s just going to keep on happening unless something or someone breaks the cycle. That’s right, every single one. I admit, some… Read.

  • orienting

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    I’ve been banished to New Employee Orientation. Not forever. It just feels like forever. Amazing, really, how you can make time freeze in its tracks by putting any random set of Power Point slide up on a screen and have somebody read them to an audience. Einstein would’ve busted a blood vessel trying to figure… Read.

  • Barb Karpowla

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    Brittney: “Do you know Barb Karpowla?” Me: “Who? I don’t think I’ve met her.” Brittney [funny look]: “Barb, your wife. Do you carpool?” Me: “Oh. Yeah. Uh, I thought you were asking about somebody named Barb Karpowla.” Brittney [laughing]: “I thought you were making fun of me!” Read.

  • molten chocolate cake

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    It was cold enough to freeze my beard to my face as we made our way across Campus Drive to Steenbock’s on Orchard, where we had a dinner reservation this evening, our third night out during Madison Restaurant Week. Everything that was on the menu sounded really good so it took us forever to decide… Read.

  • Plate and Barrel

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    Finding places like Plate & Barrel, in Sun Prairie, is why we like going out for Madison Restaurant Week so much. The only trouble with finding yet another place that has good food and great service is finding the time to visit again. But I’m pretty sure we’ll go back. Plate & Barrel serves tapas-style… Read.

  • Sherlock

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    There was a gaping plot hole in the weekend’s episode of Sherlock – did you spot it? Sherlock gets a tip from a self-avowed train geek that a something fishy’s going on in London’s subway system. The train geek’s daytime job is to review the security camera recordings of subway platforms, lucky bastard, and he… Read.

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