Month: July 2006
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QotD: You’ve got to blog!
If you could get someone in your life to start a blog, who would it be and why? George… I thought he was close when he started this account. However, he hasn't posted anything. Almost every day is an adventure for George. Finding out the newest thing that happened in the previous day often makes…
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Rain Drops on Cement
Rain Drops on Cement, originally uploaded by sneezypb. I like this one. 🙂
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Freebie
I got my oil changed today. One of the guys there sits down and says that he'll put the more expensive oil I selected in my car while charging me for the cheaper stuff (about 60%) cheaper. The catch is he wanted me to give him a half the difference in cash under the table…
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Freebie
I got my oil changed today. One of the guys there sits down and says that he’ll put the more expensive oil I selected in my car while charging me for the cheaper stuff (about 60%) cheaper. The catch is he wanted me to give him a half the difference in cash under the table…
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Racism
Lacey’s story about her first brush with racism in Houston reminds me that they were well intentioned. I am not very hard on such people because my so very white grandmother has made similar comments. Hers was that the neighborhood was suffering from all the crime, the specific example was that my bike was stolen…
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Racism
Lacey’s story about her first brush with racism in Houston reminds me that they were well intentioned. I am not very hard on such people because my so very white grandmother has made similar comments. Hers was that the neighborhood was suffering from all the crime, the specific example was that my bike was stolen…
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QotD: Sugar, Sugar
What was your favorite candy when you were a kid? How does that compare to now? As a kid, I was into the lollypops the bank gave away. Perhaps part of it was that my dad didn't approve of me getting them. He always let me get it, but some aspect of it was always…
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Great Job?
BSA collects over $2M in settlements from U.S. companies: The Business Software Alliance (BSA), a watchdog group representing the nation’s leading software manufacturers, today announced it has collected over $2 million in settlements from 19 U.S. companies that were running illegal software. Compare that to this article from the BSA web site earlier this year:…
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Xeyes
Xeyes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: xeyes is a graphical program showing two eyes which follow the cursor movements on the screen as if they were watching it. Computer nerds are weird…. Okay, I admit it… I am weird.
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Where is God?
Two little boys, ages 8 and 10, are excessively mischievous, they are always getting into trouble and their parents know all about it. If any mischief occurs in their town, the two boys are probably involved. The boys’ mother heard that a preacher in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if…