A captioned owl that’s using proper grammar and spelling? OMG NO WAI! Trivia: was sparsely populated.  No Trevor, no Kelli.  But we made the best of it.  One round consisted of “given these chemical elements, write out the chemical symbol,” which was really easy for me.  Another question said, “What brand of cigarettes did James [...]

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Economic problems have even hit the canine sectors of society. In other dog-related things, I spent part of my day off on Monday going to the Tempe Marketplace and watching “Slumdog Millionaire”. It was an interesting and partially multithreaded story, told with almost no irony, sarcasm, gratuitous pop-culture hipsterism, or obvious catch phrases. You find [...]

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Spent most of Sunday doing laundry, cooking, and my state taxes. I also found out that my e-filed federal tax return had been rejected since I had apparently entered a different PIN from the one that I had used to file my 2007 taxes. This didn’t make much sense, since I had written that down [...]

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Seriously, who wouldn’t want a penguin army? They’d be even better dressed than Eddie Izzard’s Action Transvestite Brigade. It was a pretty lazy Saturday. Went to the library, ran errands, ate lunch, played some video games.

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Caturday! Perfect day for a martini, right? It’s 2009. The WWW has been around for about 17 years. The principles behind its operation have been publicly available for almost that long (RFC 1945, documenting the hypertext transfer protocol.) So why did one of my co-workers get a helpdesk ticket saying, in essence, “I posted some [...]

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This showed up Thursday on the local news station’s website, and shows that proofreading is really, really important. Whatever a “boom squat” is, you probably don’t want one in your school. Was Taco Bell involved? Burritos of some sort? Did any detonations take place? “Bomb squat” and “boom squad” are bad enough, but when you [...]

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So on Wednesday, instead of me going over to Steve’s house, Steve and his sons came over to mine. I made an enchilada casserole, and had some leftovers. The kids also drank most of the leftover Pepsi that I had sitting around, which was good. We spent most of the evening playing Rock Band 2, [...]

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This rabbit obviously knows a thing or two about fur. Work is making almost every employee take one week of unpaid furlough. I heard that some people are calling this a “furcation”, since if you have time off work, why not use it for a vacation? Early Tuesday morning, Fuzzball barely said a word. She [...]

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What if Quentin Tarantino wrote an ad for PETA? It probably wouldn’t look much like this. It was cloudy all Monday, and after I got home, it started raining again. This is reasonably unusual for Arizona in February. It could be worse; a huge hailstorm hit northern AZ and the weather forced many cars off [...]

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Sunday in Tempe, at about 1:45pm, it hailed for about 5 minutes. The hailstones were tiny, and melted fairly quickly, but it was still unusual. I’ve been downloading a bunch of game demos for the Xbox arcade. “R-Type Dimensions” does some interesting things to the classic “R-Type” and “R-Type 2″ games’ graphics, but has apparently [...]

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