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Boycott time, folks

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As you can see on the right side of the site, I have a link to Penny Arcade. It’s a great site that has an online comic (a new one is posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), and does reviews of video games. The guys who run it, Gabe & Tycho, a.k.a. Mike Krahulik & [...]

More on Liz Murray

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Last night the Liz Murray movie, “Homeless to Harvard,” replayed on Lifetime. According to my traffic logs, it boomed during and after the movie, all with people searching for more information about her. Since it seems that my site is now the most popular non-news site when people are searching for information about Liz Murray, [...]

Ahh…The power of Google

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I’ve been wondering for a while how long it takes for search engines to spider my website each day/week/month/whatever, and I just got my answer. Once a week. While looking though my referral logs, I noticed that the day after I posted my last entry about Liz Murray, 85% of my new referrals have been [...]

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

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I’m not into popular TV. Never have been, never will be. I don’t like Friends, or Seinfeld, or any of that so-called “reality television,” which is about as unreal as you can get without computer generated special effects. I like Star Trek reruns, and the new show Enterprise. I like the History channel, and Discovery, [...]

The war

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I promised myself that I’d try not to make any posts about the war here, on my personal website, but honestly there’s nothing else to talk about in the world. Really, there isn’t. Even Fark hasn’t had much to post besides basketball scores and the war. Well, here it goes. Coalition Forces, consisting of troops [...]

And now, the weather in Iraq.

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I have a rather long commute to work. One hour (at least) by car, and just under an hour by Metro, each morning and evening. Since I spend all that time in my car, I tend to listen to talk/news radio, since it’s more interesting than hearing the top 50 crappiest songs ever written over [...]

A good deed

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I’ve been wanting to write about so many things since my last post a week ago. Unfortunately, time and motivation haven’t really been on my side. It’s been a pretty odd week. The war started. I did a good deed. That must be a sign of the apocolypse. Read on. I’m not going to make [...]

Tractors and madmen and wars – Oh my!

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For the past three days, there’s been a crazy guy sitting in his John Deere tractor, in the middle of the pond at Constitution Gardens off of Constitution Ave. here in D.C. He claims to have ammonium nitrate explosives, and says he’s ready to die for his cause which, ironically, is letting the world know [...]

Birthdays and other events

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Happy Birthday, Rachel & Mike. You old, old farts. Especially Mike, who is now “more than halfway to 30!” Y’all don’t look a day over…like…old…yeah. Just kidding! The festivities, if you want to call them that, are tomorrow night at Isabella’s in Frederick proper. It’s going to be a helluva party, especially when Mike sees [...]

Would you like some "Freedom Fries" with that?

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Back in the 1940′s, during the second World War, one of the ways that American’s protested Germany by calling wiener schnitzel “hotdogs” and sour kraut “freedom cabbage.” Sounds pretty dumb, huh? In a way, yes. In another way, no. In case you live under a rock, yesterday the House voted to change the name of [...]