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This is where I live

Here’s a little something someone threw together to show off life in Dunedin (shot downtown). Half the video is devoted to credits, so don’t be intimidated by the length. It’s nice to know there are a few quirky places in Florida (like my home town)… that it’s not just beaches, strip-malls, swamps, and theme parks. Note Casa Tina at about 1:30 in – one of our…
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Oh Canada!

I’m ashamed to admit I’m not sure if there’s customarily a comma in there, but I specifically left it comma free in this case. Our neighbors north of the border have a birthday today. As my wife’s family might say, it’s Fête du Canada – Canada Day. And I must say Canada, you hardly look a day over 140! In the back rooms of Creationist Theory offices, it’s…
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Words make the soul feel good

I spend a lot of time writing about depression, cancer, sleep disorders, and generally unpleasant stuff. Today I’m writing about a letter my boss received a little while ago. I was the subject. In my line of work, or just about any line of work I suppose, a letter to your boss is usually not good. Letter writers tend to be motivated by anger, or some negative emotion, probably because it’s…
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Friend request

You’ve heard me talk, countless times, about the posts in my growing pending pile. Many have never escaped. In fact, it takes a pretty strong post to dig itself free and find you here. Now imagine what I don’t post. Well, as chance would have it I’ve been working on a post about nostalgia and the years I spent at UF. Today, I received a Facebook friend request from an actual…
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Forward thinking

It would be a pain in the ass, but I think it just might save my sanity. Imagine if you will: the twelve days of time change. Everyone agrees leaping backward is a breeze. I’m a backwards kind of guy anyway, so I’d be willing to soar backwards. But forward? Losing an hour of sleep in one cruel cut? It’s insanity. Why don’t we walk forward instead, in twelve manageable…
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Sweet sweats

The last few days were the coldest this fall, here in the (brighter than tolerable) Sunshine State. That means one thing: warm sweatpants. Warm sweatpants means one thing: a pair I bought in college my freshman year. The beginning of my freshman year. Twenty-one years ago. My wife warns me she’ll deny any relation to me if I go outside wearing them. “Hey, isn’t that your…
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From Windows with love

I come to you today from Windows 7. Before I go on, let’s get one thing clear. This is NOT a plug for Microsoft, Windows, or any of the Jolly Redmond Giant’s products. The statement above is just a statement of fact. If Freud could make it sound lewd, he might say, “sometimes a fact is just a fact.” I’ve defiled my otherwise lovely, de-fertilizing, aluminum uni-body MacBook with a copy…
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The simple post

I collect text editors on my iPhone like some collect coins. This latest app is the simplest yet – and may turn out to be my favorite. The last one was my favorite until it crashed and took an entire post with it. I was so pissed I had to put myself in time out – sans iPhone. The damn thing is too expensive, and more importantly – probably too fragile – to be tossing it…
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