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Archive for December, 2009
Goal Setting
In: In the news
30 Dec 2009As the end of the year is quickly approaching, I like to look back at what I have accomplished for the year and what new things I will strive to complete in 2010. Some people like to make a New Year’s resolution. I personally think that this is great, but limiting. Most [...]
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- Tags: Goals
The Known Universe
In: Cool Videos
30 Dec 2009If this doesn’t make you feel small, I’m not sure what will.
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- Tags: Cool Videos, Science
Ads
In: Cool Videos| Politics
29 Dec 2009Yes its true. It takes an act of congress to get the ad guys play nice with the consumer. Pretty freaking sad if you ask me, but I won’t complain if it passes.
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- Tags: About Time, Ads
Christmas Prank
In: Cool Videos
24 Dec 2009Well done, well done indeed!
Merry Christmas!
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- Tags: Cool Videos, Pranks
Health Care
In: In the news| Politics| Rants
15 Dec 2009Yes, I’m going there. But not for the reasons that you might expect. I’m not going to make this a right vs left, red vs blue, or bears vs packers issue.
I’m going about this from a bit of experience in the not so distant past. My wife and I had [...]
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- Tags: health care, technology
Is this the best you can do?
In: Dumb People| Rants
15 Dec 2009Seriously CNN, is this the best that you can do?
In case you are wondering why people no longer look to you for news, this is why. Some blowhole closing his twitter account shouldn’t make the front page of cnn.com.
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- Tags: CNN, Main Stream Media, Twitter
Jobless rate visualization
In: Cool Videos
9 Dec 2009Living in Iowa, I feel pretty fortunate that we haven’t been hit as bad as other areas of the country.
ClimateGate
In: In the news| Politics| Rants
3 Dec 2009For some reason, the Climate Gate articles have not made enough of a splash in the main stream media. I’m sure that the conspiracy theorist will have a reason why this is happening. I just don’t think that the story has gotten enough attention yet. So…here is a pretty good article [...]
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- Tags: Assholes, Climate, Global Warming, Weather
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- Cryptogram #1 – Solution - /usr/local.com: [...] So, its been a few days, did you figure out the solution to our first cryptogram? [...] [...]
- Another Goal - /usr/local.com: [...] already stated my main 5 goals for 2010. But this morning I realized that I have developed a v [...]
- Judas wears a purple #4 - /usr/local.com: [...] written about it before, I enjoy watching number 4 play. But for the Vikings!?!?! [...] [...]
- blog.brentb.com » iTunes 8.2 Released: [...] but I want a mouse when I have 8-9 pages of Apps on my phone that I want to sort. Matt with [...]
- IgniteIT Talk - /usr/local.com: [...] a month ago I gave a lightning talk at a local IgniteIT Event. I haven’t done a lot of p [...]
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