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Three Meals In Los Angeles
Here’s the last of the Los Angeles pictures! This time, it’s all about the food. On our first day, Wendy showed us a fantastic place in downtown Los Angeles called Grand Central Market. The Grand...
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Happy Birthday, Orlando!
July 31st, 2017 is Orlando’s 142nd birthday. To celebrate the birthday, there was a celebration today at City Hall. With a big birthday cake. Also, today was the raising of the brand new city...
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Big Mac Attack
I was having a conversation today with my buddy Marc about the new laptop I’m getting, and I mentioned that I’ve always migrated my data from computer to computer before, but that leads to a build-up...
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[Ancient Repost] The most dangerous item in the drug store.
I’ve been clearing out an ancient LiveJournal in preparation for deleting the account. While most of the stuff there is utter fluff, a tiny portion of the posts are worth preserving. What follows is...
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A silly post about my t-shirts.
I’m pretty sure that nobody else is going to be even remotely interested in this post, but I’m trying this new thing where I actually put stuff in my blog more than once every two months, so I’m...
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Things end.
This week, I received a notification that AOL Instant Messenger is ending. On December 15th of this year, the service that was the biggest part of my social life from the mid-1990s until just a year...
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Ever have a day when you feel like you got hit by a truck?
There is a moment, just a fraction of a millisecond, before you get hit by a truck, where you realize that it’s going to happen. You know with complete inexorable certainty that this hit is about to...
View Article[Ancient Repost] It’s bloody Brigadoon!
I’ve been clearing out an ancient LiveJournal in preparation for deleting the account. While most of the stuff there is utter fluff, a tiny portion of the posts are worth preserving. What follows is...
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Damn it, Idris!
Editor’s note: The text of this post was written a few days ago, and at that time I was still furiously job hunting. I was planning on fleshing this out with a few more humorous references to ways in...
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So long, 2017. Hello, 2018!
My friend Jade posted her year in review a few days ago, and it made me realize that my year has actually been quite a bit less busy than some of my previous years. Some things haven’t changed at...
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Two They Might Be Giants Shows, Twenty Years Apart
I went downtown to see They Might Be Giants this week. The show was at a venue called The Beacham, which is a large and venerable concert space right on Orange Avenue. TMBG did a rollicking two-set...
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Dinosaur World, Florida
On the way back from a thing in Tampa in April of 2017, I had the chance to stop in at Dinosaur World in Plant City. I’ve been meaning to write about it since then, and I am just now getting around...
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What I learned from the Labyrinth
Labyrinth, the musical fantasy epic from Jim Henson and Brian Froud, has long been one of my favorite movies. I loved it the first time I saw it in 1986, and I love it now. A few months ago, Fathom...
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What I Spent In Linz, Austria (Just kidding.)
I love the “What We Spent” posts that Ali writes when she travels, and I wanted to do one for my side trip to Linz, Austria last month. Alas, I didn’t track my spending very accurately. I can tell...
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That’s a wrap, 2018!
Photo by ViTalko on Pexels.com As the year winds down to a close, I wanted to look back at last year’s wrap-up post in which I set some goals for 2018. I realized a few years back that I need to set...
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A Photo An Hour – March 23, 2019
Photo An Hour is a link-up that I’ve seen Bev do a bunch of times, and she always mentions linking up with Louise and Jane, who I don’t know. The premise is simple- you take a photo each hour and...
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Goodbye, Dad.
It’s been two weeks since we buried my Dad. He passed away on Sunday, May 26th. It wasn’t a surprise to any of us- he had been sick for a long time, and his health declined noticeably over the last few...
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Orlando Airport’s Hidden B-52 Memorial Park
Nestled on the outskirts of Orlando International Airport is a tiny little park, with a great big retired B-52 Stratofortress bomber in it. This particular B-52 flew missions with the 306th Bomb Wing...
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A brief history of my early digital life.
As far back as I can remember, Dad always got us into whatever the latest and greatest technology happened to be. In 1980, we had a Tandy Color Computer (TRS-80) model one, with a whopping 4k. We even...
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Another year has ended. Hello, 2020!
As 2019 ends and we enter the roaring 20s, it’s time for my yearly wrap-up and review post. This was an eventful year for me, with the passage of my father and a significant job change that I haven’t...
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