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Archive for November, 2006

Fun with Flickr

Mounted in Times Square. Originally uploaded by Stewart. Besides being a great place to post photos, I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned how much fun it can be playing around in Flickr. If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend it. From searching for photos of your town, your alma mater, places you’ve been or even just [...]

Funky Cold Medication?

Wait a second… Is that Tone Loc at the end of that Flomax commercial? Is Tone Loc doing a commercial for a pharmaceutical that treats men who pee too much? What’s next, Young MC pimping for erectile dysfunction meds?

Odd Jobs

Quite a while back, I saw an interesting post by Pixelinpink citing random facts about herself and then asking her friends to guess which ones were inaccurate. I was thinking about this last night, realized that I’ve done a lot jobs over the course of my career. Can you find the five jobs that I’ve [...]

Sock it to me

I really like socks. It’s odd, I admit that, but I’m a sucker for a nice pair of argyle socks or a solid pastel pair. Socks are rarely seen, but when they are noticed, they really pull an outfit together. It shows the world that you care about even the minute details. [...]

Just Shoot Me

Well, it’s official. Radio stations all over the dial are already playing non-stop Christmas music. I discovered this last night while driving home from work. I swear it gets earlier every year, because I didn’t rant about this until November 22 of last year. Mark the date as November 15, 2006, [...]

Plates & Ice

So, last night I swung by our friendly Toyota Dealership and picked up our license plates and registration. I never would have imagined that our first set of plates would be the Californian variety, but go figure. While this mean seem menial and unimportant, it’s actually the most important first step in getting some schnazzy [...]

The ads are back

As part of my employment agreement, I was required to remove the Google AdSense ads from my site. I did this a few weeks back and most of you probably didn’t even notice. I’ve come to miss the ads, though, being an avid contributor to the success of online advertising and have therefore re-instituted the advertising [...]