Posted in Life on Aug 24th, 2007
I found this question Yahoo! Answers a few months ago, and wrote a response that turned out a little longer than I thought it would be. I figured it might be useful to some folks, so I’m posting it here. My knowledge comes from my experience as an employee of a major insurer.
Here’s the […]
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Posted in America America, Religion on Aug 23rd, 2007
“God Bless Me, It’s a Best-Seller!” is an article written by Christopher Hitchens, author of the best-selling God Is Not Great, about his book tour. I was pleasantly surprised to see that his first stop was Little Rock, Arkansas, my old stomping-ground until just a few months ago. I was even more surprised to see […]
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Posted in America America, Politics on Aug 20th, 2007
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by Barry Deutsch
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Posted in What I'm Listening To on Aug 19th, 2007
I have to admit, I think Rihanna’s Umbrella is THA bomb. Just can’t get enough of this song. Today, Yahoo’s got Mandy Moore’s cover on their front page, and I took a gander even though I’m not her biggest fan. I was pleasantly surprised by how good it is.
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Posted in Bad Days, What I Hate on Aug 16th, 2007
Am I right in thinking that $6 for window washer fluid is a total scam?
Here’s what happened: my 2004 VW Passat broke down a few weeks ago. I have no idea what the problem was, but it had something to do with “coils.” I asked them to do my 50,000 mile service, as well. […]
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In the musical Rent, there is a scene where two friends of “Angel,” the cross-dressing gay man who died of AIDS, go to a church to find a place to hold his funeral. As they are turned away by the priest, the audience is meant to understand that there is a vast group of people […]
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Posted in Tech, Work on Aug 7th, 2007
So, I had to go ahead and close the comments on my last post, “10 Things the Techno-Retarded Want the IT Guy to Know” (a response to Think Smarter’s “10 things your IT guy wants you to know“, which was linked-to from Dumb Little Man) because it (apparently) was not apparent that this was satire.
My […]
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