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Couple of New Blogs

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Wanted to post here that I’m starting to post at two new blogs I’ve been invited to: clusterflock – a blog about everything with no filtering, so expect anything SnaggleTruth – a blog about the TV Shows Heroes and LOST ( at least so far ) I know what you’re thinking, “But he doesn’t hardly […]

Live Free or Die Hard

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Live Free or Die Hard is one of those action films you just need to suspend your brain for a couple of hours and just enjoy the craziness. It stars Bruce Willis, reprising his role as Detective John McClane from the previous Die Hard movies. This time, he’s bringing in a hacker, played by Justin […]

Idiocracy

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For some reason, I think because I was looking at Justin Long’s IMDB list ( you know, “Hey, I’m a Mac” guy ), I found this silly, but funny movie called Idiocracy. It’s a story about how the portion of mankind that’s actually reproducing is those with lower and lower IQs as the smarter people […]

iPhone: First Impressions

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As Maggie pointed out on her blog, I was one of the many who braved the crowds Friday night and got us both an iPhone. My friend Jim has a pretty good account of what we went through to get our phones. After a fairly quick activation, and after having my corporate discount removed, Maggie […]

Yet more training

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I’ve now been in Atlanta since Monday for a Microsoft Certification Bootcamp to get a certification to help please my company. I’m going to continue to be here until Monday, and even though the company put us up in some nice accommodations, I’m still missing home a lot. The only thing that’s helping is that […]

New York Age

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Well, according to Time Out New York, my New York age is: My New York age is 33 This New York age puts you into a middle category between young and old (but not “middle age” per se). Be proud. You’ve got a nice balance between going out hard-core and staying in. You care about […]

A good semester

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Before I left on the cruise, I had one last test for the week in Calculus, and I knew I’d have grades to check either during the cruise or after it. I’m happy to report that I got a B in Calculus and an A in Financial Accounting. So 2 more classes down, so many […]

Training at Duke

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The week after the cruise ( the next day in fact ) I left for Durham, NC to attend a training program my employer runs there. The purpose of this training to have the attendees asses areas about their work and life that might be out of balance. The goals of the program is to […]

Cruising the Caribbean

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For the longest time, Maggie and I have talked about going on a cruise and we decided for our 5th anniversary that it was the right time to book it and have some fun. After about a month of searching and looking at deals, we finally decided on a 7 day cruise to the Western […]

Street Meat!

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At the end of March, Maggie and I went to NYC for a friend’s wedding reception. We didn’t take Brenden along as we made it a “day” trip, so he stayed behind with Maggie’s mom at our house. When I say “day trip”, I mean, from Arrival time to Departure time was 29 hours! Very […]

Game Speed Runs

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I saw a cool site today: Speed Demos Archive . It features movie recordings of people playing games from start to finish as fast as they can. I think my personal favorite is: Super Mario Bros. done in 5 minutes (using the world warps) and just under 20 minutes, playing all 32 levels. I played […]

My Stars Ticket Luck

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Over the course of the past few weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to be taken along to entertain clients at a couple of Stars games. The seats were very, very nice. I went to the Minnesota game on February 6th and the Red Wings game on February 14th (yes, I have the best wife in […]

NHL All-Star Week Pics

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Ok, so maybe it’s not the day after like I talked about before, but here are the pics I took during the YoungStars/NHL Skills competition here in Dallas. Our seats were pretty awesome. One of the cool things was that for every team that has a mascot, they were there. I got shots of several […]

Funny Soccer Penalty Shot

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I saw this on Fark today and it made me laugh. Thought I would share.

NHL All-Star Week

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This week, the NHL will hold it’s All-Star Game here in Dallas. I’ve been lucky enough to obtain a ticket to tomorrow night’s YoungStars/Skill Competition. It should be high scoring in the YoungStars game (average goals scored by winning team is 9.3) and I’ve always enjoyed the skills competition when I’ve watched it on TV. […]

Rabbits

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Ah rabbits, should we think of them as cute and cuddly, or something very different: Thanks to Brian M for the YouTube link.

How fast can you type?

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I found this little game today. It’s a test to see how fast you can type the alphabet. The clock starts when you hit the “A” key. My best time so far is around 7.1 6.1 5.5 4.3 4.2 4.0 seconds. I’ve read others in the sub-4 second range. I don’t believe the high scores […]

Happy New Year!

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Well, here we are in 2007. Maggie and I kept it pretty low key. After putting Brenden to bed, we played a rematch game of Trivial Pursuit: Totaly 80s in which Maggie soundly defeated me ( I won the first game, so we’re tied 1-1 ). But I had the last laugh when I completely […]

Another interesting vending machine

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As if to emphasize my previous post, Maggie and I ran across another interesting vending machine at DFW Airport on our way to NYC: (sorry for the blurry pic, it’s from my phone) That’s right, for all your emergency Sony product needs while traveling, there’s a Sony Kiosk at the airport. The items range from […]

Brenden’s First Trip: New York City

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As I mentioned earlier, we decided to take a trip to visit New York City to see friends and our favorite New York places. As the time to travel neared, I began to get a little more anxious about this “taking a 7 month old on his first plane ride”. Well, as Maggie points out, […]