December 2009
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Favorite Things
2. The secret handshake my little sister and I developed over 10 years ago.
Junk?
I was helping my folks clean out some of the old electronics they’ve collected over the years. Here’s a run down of what I found.
Five old wireless networking cards (3 laptop ExpressCards, 1 USB, 1 PCI desktop)
Three CRT computer monitors
Two DVD/VCR combos that don’t work
Two old Dell desktop computers (one without a hard drive and one with a ZipDisk drive)
Two old Dell...
Decade
I’m somewhat annoyed that people are calling 2009 the end of the decade. I understand that it is the end of “a” decade, but it’s definitely not the end of the 2000’s. Technically the first decade of the 2000’s doesn’t end until the end of 2010. Just like the millennium technically didn’t end until the end of 2000. This of course assumes that we...
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Ben's Rules to Live By
26. Always give at least one gift not on their list preferably something fun (toy, gadget, DVD, etc).
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Favorite Things
1. Hearing one of my mom’s honest belly laughs.
Overslept
I overslept for the third time in my “adult” life the other day. I woke up 30 minutes into my personal training appointment schedule for that morning.
The first time I overslept was in the first year of my job. I woke up at like 9 am and rushed to work about an hour or so late. No one really noticed so it was ok.
The second time I overslept was a month or so ago, but thankfully...
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Watchthedailywhat:
Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for Harald Zwart’s Jaden Smith / Jackie Chan-starring Karate Kid remake.
Synopsis:
Smith plays Dre, a skateboarding video game buff who moves to China after his single mother is forced to go there for work. Unable to speak Chinese, Dre finds it hard to settle in, and gets beat up by the local bully. Chan plays Mr. Han, a...
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Teenager Wins Science Fair, Solves Massive... →
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blakewhitman:hippieflavor:
11th-grader Daniel Burd successfully isolated 2 types of bacteria that will eat plastic grocery bags, allowing the bags to biodegrade in months instead of hundreds of years.
via makdreams: age-of-ecology: supergluefiend
Wins science fair/increases his chance of getting laid by at least 25%
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Big Ten will amplify call for a 12th team - ESPN →
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IT is now COSE →
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I made it!
Finally I made it up the hill and over to work! Hooray! The maintenance guys did a quick plow which made it much easier. I still spun out plenty of times on the way out but I still made forward progress which was important.
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Stuck II
I tried again to get out of my place, again without success. However, I think I’ve narrowed down the problem. My car isn’t heavy enough. Other people seem to have been able to make it out, but me and my little Corolla remain at home.
<Begin Rant> My condo association hires a maintenance company to plow our lots. So far they have not been seen. According to the agreement...
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Stuck!
So I tried to get out of my place this morning to go work out, but it wasn’t happening. I tried for at least 20 minutes to get up the hill leading out of my place and every time I’d get stuck in roughly the same spot. I’d back up and try again but then I’d slide around and get turned sideways. I finally gave up and tried to work my way back down the hill and back to my...
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Ben's Rules to Live By
25. Never wear dark colors and walk or jog along the side of the road at night. Ever.
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I understand that you are upset and that you feel like you’ve been given the run around. I’ve been there. But I am telling you the answers to your questions as I see them. If you’d let me finish my sentence before interrupting maybe we could figure out where our disconnect comes from. At this point your anger and cursing doesn’t help and it only reinforces my thought...
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Ben's Rules to Live By
24. Things not to do on an airplane…
Use tobacco products (especially chewing tobacco)
Hygienic practices outside the bathroom (includes nail clipping)
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