You Bring Out The Boring White Guy In Me

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Just stumbled upon this: Hipster Bingo

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Power Commuting: navigating the minefields of poodle turds in Vienna, and meeting my Maker in Atlanta.

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Everybody wish me luck: I’m about to attempt to leverage us to the hilt in order to begin the next phase of my real estate Empire. If all of the very disparate elements fall into place, which is a long shot, we’ll be extending the empire in a big way, well, big for our [...]

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This morning, as I walked from the subway station into my office building, I saw a group of people standing around a television.
In this day and age, such a site makes my stomach flip and my heart sink.
Expecting to see some tragedy unfolding, I stepped up closer to the crowd and squinted to see BellSouth’s [...]

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A sleeping man on the train this morning (with a big smile on his face):
“Salut! God Bless You! You had better learn to pray on your own.”
It seemed fitting. Atlanta is overrun by a huge posse of white Christian teenagers from all over the country right now. Thousands of them are [...]

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I just got my copy of We Ain’t Got No Car #7 from Jack Saturn via the good ole postal service. I have decided it shall be my MARTA reading.

I love this type of thing: a guy putting out a high quality product on his own, outside of a system set up by [...]

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My conversion to Italian is nearly complete. I only cook “Italian Food.” I only crave “Italian Food.” I study it. I study Italian history, travel and culture. All I have left to do is learn to speak Italian and move to Italy! Oh ya! And I have to forget [...]

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And somehow, on his own free will, he held his hands aloft:
two pantomime storks, and lifted from the stretcher to the sky.
“French Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone.”

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Chris and I are taking the Red Hat Linux Certification Fast Track course this week. We decided to do it to as resume fodder and, as a side benefit, to beef up our company’s credit when it comes to designing Linux solutions for our client: something they wouldn’t have even considered just one year [...]

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Reconcile the two, if you can.

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I was flipping through the channels, and there’s some movie coming out or out now that’s called Swimming Pool. It features some French hottie getting in and out of a swimming pool—a lot, from what I can tell. Anyway, Independent Film Channel ran a brief interview with the director, François Ozon.
While I’m sure [...]

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I’m curious, and I was hoping those of my many tens of readers who know a lot about history could answer my question. Here goes:
Is peace even possible? Has an empire, nation or state ever existed for which peace prevailed?
I guess to get a good answer, we need to define the [...]

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I uploaded a couple newphoto albums to the site: Asheville, NC and my mother’s birthday party in Colorado.

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As I was pushing the car with my computer and a bunch of other crap on it to the elevator so I could move to a new office three floors down, I heard a woman on a conference call say:
“but we’re not supposed to be intelligent.”
God I am glad to be off of that floor.

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