Has anyone tried Trails.com? I suspect them of being a scam, but they seem to have a page for everything.
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07:34:23 PM,
Tuesday 8 September 2009
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I just took the sailboat out of the Honda and replaced it with 8 overfull bags of tree clippings. I love my car.
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06:05:59 PM,
Tuesday 8 September 2009
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(I should mention they were sailing Snipe, just because, well, they're called Snipe.) _
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05:59:28 PM, Tuesday 8 September 2009
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01:25:48 PM, Sunday 6 September 2009
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I know that my time is worth enough that I shouldn't be evaluating games on a hours per dollar basis, but these new Monkey Island chapters come to about $2 a puzzle.
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10:14:44 PM,
Saturday 5 September 2009
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Wait, is John the Revelator by Depeche Mode Unitarian Universalist Rock? Particularly the line, 'There is only one God, through and through' Is UU Rock even more embarrassing than Christian Rock? I think it might be! Any other examples out there? In retrospect, I think we can include Blasphemous Rumours and Personal Jesus.
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04:42:15 PM,
Friday 4 September 2009
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Indenture is my new favorite etymology. "The term comes from the medieval English "indenture of retainer" — a legal contract written in duplicate on the same sheet, with the copies separated by cutting along a jagged (toothed, hence the term "indenture") line so that the teeth of the two parts could later be refitted to confirm authenticity."
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10:18:46 AM,
Friday 4 September 2009
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I hope twitter dies soon. I feel like a grumpy old man in a ghost town. Finally setting up an RSS reader. See what you've made me do?
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08:56:33 PM,
Thursday 3 September 2009
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The Massachusetts Republican party may have found the perfect candidate* to run against Joe Kennedy: Curt Schilling. There's a kind of logic here: both are rich and famous for reasons having nothing to do with intelligence**; so, in a kind of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the working class likes them, because they aren't accepted by the acedemic meritocracy. They have reverse snob appeal. This is the thing that bugs me most about monarchy: because they're born to it, there's less jealousy. Obama's lack of advantages creates a sense of superiority. But you can't become a Kennedy. The very pointlessness of the privilege defuses the 'he thinks he's better than us' thing.
I honestly don't know which I'd vote for. Would he be the first senator who plays MMORPGs?
*and yes, I realize it won't happen and he will do very nearly anything for attention. Still.
**yeah yeah, he's a smart pitcher and a geek. But I think I'm on safe ground saying that there are great dumb pitchers and even dumb geeks.
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11:22:40 AM,
Thursday 3 September 2009
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I am considering deleting all my political bookmarks. The trap of political coverage is the desire to know what is going to happen. I want to know, for example, what sort of healthcare reform will pass, and whether Joe Kennedy is going to run for senate. However, I don't actually want to read ill-informed waffling on either subject. I would be better served by reading about what is happening, and what has happened, but the desire to know the future creates a demand that gets filled by vacuous claptrap.
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10:06:06 PM,
Wednesday 2 September 2009
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Over the Rhine is coming! I am excited.
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04:23:01 PM,
Wednesday 2 September 2009
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Reader survey: How do you type the abbreviation for comma-seperated file? csv or .csv? For that matter, any abbreviation that is also a file extension? If you type the dot, do you also pronounce it?
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03:53:42 PM,
Wednesday 2 September 2009
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