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Archive for August, 2011

Pleasing Your IT Department

I think I’ve been in every single one of these situations at one time or another: When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and children’s art. We don’t have a life, and we [...]

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Insane Airflow

The Delta PFB1212UHE-F00 is absolutely ridiculous in terms of the airflow this thing creates. Just look at this thing installed in my machine. It’s insane.

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Fracking And The Virginia Earthquake

Here is a very interesting piece on the possibility of fracking being linked to the recent Virginia earthquake. Could you imagine if this is true? All in the name of the mighty dollar. What will the excuse(s) of the pro-frackers be? H/T:   Cowboy Byte

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The Ultimate Symbolism

If this isn’t symbolic of what’s really going on in Washington, DC, then I don’t know what the hell is: I’m just saying.  

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Up And Running

No, I didn’t suffer a software or a hardware failure. And no, I wasn’t hacked. This site’s been offline because the hardware serving this blog has been powered off. Why?  Because of our recent A/C failure, I’ve been waiting for a more powerful cooling solution for this computer to arrive. Luckily, the night/morning has been [...]

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Obama’s Hissy Fit

Gosh Darn-it! The White House isn’t happy with what Rick Perry said about Ben “Just Print More Money” Bernanke. Could somebody please hand the White House a giant box of Kleenex? WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) – The White House denounced Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Tuesday for his threatening remarks toward the head of [...]

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Out With The Old …

This car was nothing but problems. Seriously, I never owned an automobile that was in the shop so many times. And in with the new … Look at the miles per gallon I’m already getting.  32.2 miles per gallon.  I had it up to 32.5. Nothing beats driving a manual transmission, either. I gotta tell [...]

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