Ultimately, not.
That’s the short answer. But here I sit, facing the death of one of my close friends, being crushed beneath a mountain of twelve hour days, ever-expanding ass planted firmly in chair, the days getting shorter.
How come it’s so hard to make the good things last?
Just weeks ago, I was saying to my [...]

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Today I passed the second exam in the Sun Solaris 8 Operating Environment. Which means that if I were a dork, I would start appending it to my e-mail signatures.I’ve always been somewhat “anti-cert” because I’ve known plenty of “certified” people in the technical world, and, with the exception of a few select certifications [...]

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Trav has a spawn and the world didn’t end! That’s encouraging.In all honesty, congratulations to Trav and Al for producing John Holden **—fighting weight: 10 pound, 2 ounces.

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To the Owners and Players of Major League Baseball—should there be a strike. (by Tobias Seaman)

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As of today, I work next to a person who has a “wizard parking only” sign posted within his cube. I’m not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it’s important to note.

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SAN JOSE, California (AP)—With a putrid passage about a relationship gone bad, a word-puzzle creator who also crafts witty sayings for lapel buttons won the 21st annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for horrible writing. Rephah Berg of Oakland triumphed Monday over thousands of entrants from around the world with the following sentence:
“On reflection, Angela perceived [...]

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The first phase of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s much-touted audits have been completed. The results: Atlanta’s city government is a wreck.Of course, this won’t suprise anyone who lives in Atlanta. And, quite honestly, I was even expecting much worse. Bill Campbell (Atlanta’s former mayor) left our city broke and broken, in the [...]

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I am usually the first to comment on other people’s fashion choices, but this article is bordering on the absurd.

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StB and I had a discussion about this: some of it is rather cool. Mashups, the unauthorized splicing of different pieces of songs that, in the best cases, span genres. Example is one DJ or computer-savvy kid whichever, that near-flawlessly spliced Christina (young Cher) Aquilera’s “Genie in a Bottle” vocals over the NYC snottyness of [...]

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My domestic tranquility would be exceedingly pristine were it not for the monstrosity that happens almost daily across the street from my home.I’m speaking of THE DEVELOPMENT.A little background is in order.When we first purchased our house, we were ignorant to the fact that some shrewd property owners (who happen to be heavy hitters in [...]

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I have finally posted a couple photos of our new hound, Elsa Von Facebeiter

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