Category: yet another rant
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you could have phoned
You’ve seen this plenty of times in the news or through social media such as Facebook: Soldier doesn’t tell child / spouse he (or she!) is coming home because they want to surprise child / spouse by showing up unannounced at a party / their graduation ceremony / a wedding. News anchors, Facebook posters, My Read.
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changeup
My Darling B has a whole new attitude about mice since she opened her garden shed and discovered they’d pooped and peed on just about everything in there. Before she was on Mother Nature’s side, making me trap them live so we could release them in a nearby city park, but now that she has Read.
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kaboom
The animals are running from Yellowstone! Fleeing! Just like they did before the earthquake! And before the tsunami! It can only mean that the supervolcano underneath is gonna blow! And government scientists are covering it up! The same scientists, maybe, who’ve been trying to tell everyone for thirty or forty years that we’ve got to stop crapping up Read.
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PS3
We tried to watch the first episode of this season’s Downton Abbey last night using Amazon streaming video through a PS3. If that didn’t make any sense at all, here’s how that breaks down: First of all, yes, we’re fans of Downton Abbey. Roll your eyes all you want. We like it. Tim left us Read.
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my second brain
I really want to like my smart phone. And for the most part, I do. It can do some pretty awesome stuff I never asked for or even expected it to do. Besides the obvious extras – texting, browsing the internet – it’s got GPS, for instance, so when I call up a Google map, Read.
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collector plates
Wisconsin’s license plates are white with black letters, pretty boring. There’s a little banner across the top with “Wisconsin” spelled out and, off to one side, what looks like a maybe a sailboat, a couple of sandhill cranes in flight, and a cartoon barn. Not even a credibly nice try at making it look interesting, Read.
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javaless
I’ve been on the road for a couple days in the service of the Great State of Wisconsin, which means that I haven’t had a decent cup of coffee until just this morning. The hotels we stay in on these trips are all the kind that serve a complimentary breakfast of dried cereal or make-your-own Read.
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Manic Monday
The song stuck in my head all last week was The Bangles’ Manic Monday. Pick just about any one of their songs and I’ll tap my feet or sing along with it, so ordinarily I wouldn’t be bothered if one was stuck in my head for days on end, but Manic Monday is arguably the Read.
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California Day 6
Woke up this morning, rubbed the sleepers from my eyes, tumbled out of the van and went staggering up the road to the office-slash-general store to get a cup of coffee. Halfway back to our camp site I slowed to a stop as I caught sight of B standing just outside the van, binoculars in Read.
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perfect
A man walks into a bar and orders a martini. And the bartender asks him, “Any preference of vodka?” The man walks out. This is not a joke. It’s what you do if you cross paths with a bartender – a bartender, for shit’s sake! – who thinks a martini is made with vodka. The Read.
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